A senator who represents nursing instructors at the University of Manitoba is raising red flags about a provincial directive to colleges to expand their enrolment to graduate more nurses as soon as possible. Prior to a meeting Wednesday, Genevieve Thompson, an associate professor of nursing, sent her colleagues a series of questions for the senate’s chairperson related to concerns about institutional autonomy and the future quality of nursing education. "In our view, it is deeply troubling and extremely problematic that the current provincial government is directing the university to significantly alter its approach to nursing education without regard to the impact of such changes on the quality of our program, on our students or on the faculty members who teach them," wrote Thompson.