The law required the state's two Community Colleges-CCC public education systems and the California State University-CSU systems to streamline the progression of nursing education by fall 2012 (Jones, 2015). In Minnesota, to increase student access to a baccalaureate program and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree, the IOM report strengthened momentum for the Minnesota Alliance for Nursing Education (MANE). According to project director Fay Uppman, MS, RN, MANE was already in development in 2010, Uppman said, but the IOM report lent it “substance” and “validity,” and support from Minnesota Action Coalition helped him “move forward”. .” (Jones,