BY REGINA ZILBERMINTS
Kimberly Lacap got plenty of real-world experience during her time as a medic in the U.S. Air Force.Ā Probably enough to skip most of her first-semester classes in nursing school, she said.
But that wasn’t an option.
According to the Institutes of Higher Learning, which sets policy for the state’s public universities, students can’t receive credits unless they actually take the class — they can’t test out. Without those credits, students can’t graduate, take certification exams and begin practicing as registered nurses.
Officials at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park campus are aiming to change that.
The campus — which hosts a heavy concentration of non-traditional and former military students — is in the second year of a three-year, $1 million grant that provides a fast-track program for military students with experience in medicine.
But when the grant expires in 2017, so will those students’ option to test out of certain classes. About 60 former 
military students would be affected in the first two years alone.
Leaders at the nursing school are hoping IHL officials will reconsider their policy, and allow the Gulf Park campus to set a precedent for nursing schools all over the state.
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