Media Opportunity: U.S. Congresswoman Judy Biggert visits SXU Orland Park Campus

Biggert key to federal funding for Nursing Learning Laboratory at Orland Park

Appropriation received bi-partisan support when Senator Barack Obama, D-Illinois, became the sponsor in the U.S. Senate.

Chicago (Feb. 19, 2008) U.S. Congresswoman Judy Biggert, R-13th District, will visit Saint Xavier University’s Orland Park Campus on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 2:30 p.m. to view the site of a new nursing learning laboratory for which she helped secure $191,000 in federal funding.

The new lab will allow the SXU School of Nursing to increase class sizes at the Orland Campus and provide new facilities and educational tools, including portable beds, monitoring equipment, anatomical models, diagnostic examination simulators, a simulation mannequin (Sim Man) and video recording equipment.

The appropriation received bi-partisan support when Senator Barack Obama, D-Illinois, became the sponsor in the U.S. Senate.