TCU Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences hosts lecture on Trends in Nursing Graduate Education

Fort Worth, TX

11/14/2006

TCU's Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences is hosting a Green Honors Chair lecture on “Trends in Nursing Graduate Education” Monday, Nov. 20, 5:30 p.m. at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center. The featured speaker, Jeanette Lancaster, is dean of the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Nursing and president of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The event is free and open to the public.

A nationally recognized authority on community health nursing, Dr. Lancaster in collaboration with various colleagues, has published over 50 articles in a variety of professional journals and given more than 200 speeches and workshops throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Her UVA tenure has been distinguished by her innovative efforts to improve gender imbalance at the University to give women a more equal role in decision-making, by new alliances forged within the UVA Health System, and by leading the School of Nursing to greater national prominence.

Her distinguished career as a nurse educator in baccalaureate and higher degree programs includes the appointment as dean at the University of Virginia since 1989; dean at Wright State University (OH) from 1984-1989; and faculty roles at both the University of Alabama in Birmingham and Texas Christian University. Dr. Lancaster earned her Ph.D. in public health from the University of Oklahoma, her M.S. in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Case Western Reserve University, and her B.S.N. from the University of Tennessee, Memphis.

For more information on the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, visit www.harriscollege.tcu.edu. For more information on the event, please call 817-257-6743.


Media contact:
Shawn Kornegay
Asst. Director of Communications
817-257-5061
s.kornegay@tcu.edu