SUPPORT

From encouraging award applications to creating scholarships to attract, retain and graduate a culturally sensitive student body, we believe in supporting and empowering faculty, staff and students by creating an environment that fosters inclusivity, collaboration, and personal growth.

The college’s leadership is intentional about ensuring all feel welcome and the support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts is woven throughout the four Nursing POPS! priorities.

DEI Strategic Goals

Ann Gakumo, PhD, joined the college in fall 2021 as the Greer Glazer Endowed Chair in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Since January 2022, Gakumo has led the creation and implementation of a DEI strategic plan, surveying nearly 500 students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni; conducting in-depth analyses on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats around DEI efforts; leading college-wide strategic planning sessions, meetings on alignment with the university’s strategic plan, and an accountability retreat to discuss turning strategic goals into actionable steps.

With the vision, “To inspire, influence, engage, and guide the College of Nursing, the University of Cincinnati and the larger community to build a sustainable model of inclusive excellence that embraces and reflects the diverse population we serve,” the plan has four strategic goals with corresponding action items and measurements to ensure accountability. Accountability groups have been assembled and meet on an ongoing basis to make progress in bringing each one of the goals to life.

The strategic plan includes the following goals:

1. To be a model for academic excellence in inclusive teaching practices and integration of DEI/social determinants of health concepts in curricula.

2. To maximize human, social, financial, and environmental resources for impactful and sustainable diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

3. To promote a culture and climate within the College of Nursing that values diversity and equity, and where everyone has a sense of belonging.

4. To eliminate health inequities in our community (local to global) through research, education, practice, and service.

New Funds & Endowments Established in 2022

Beverly Keene Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund for Grad Students

Carol Anne Deets Scholarship Fund

Susan Opas College of Nursing Simulation Fund

Susan Opas Emergency Fund for Nursing Students

The Anthem Rural Medicine Scholarship

David and Madeleine Lynch Martin Nursing Scholarship Endowment Fund

2022 Honors & Recognitions

TAMI BAKAS: Recipient of the Mount St. Joseph Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award

SUSAN BRAMMER: Inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

AMY FATHMAN: Recipient of the Beyond Excellence Silver Star from St. Elizabeth Physicians

GORDON GILLESPIE: Inducted as Fellow of the Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF)

DENISE GORMLEY: Recipient of the Mount St Joseph Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Leadership Award

KEELEY HARDING: Recipient of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Conference on Pediatric Health Care Practice Innovation Poster Award

ELLIE KIM: Recipient of the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology & Entrepreneurship Paper Award

CLEOPATRA KUM: Recipient of the Gerontological Society of America Mentoring & Career Development Technical Assistance Workshop Diversity Fellow Award

REBECCA LEE: Recipient of the Mount St. Joseph Distinguished Nurse Educator Award

DEBORAH MILLER: Recipient of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (OH Chapter) Educator of the Year Award

SUSAN NEWELL: Inducted as Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

CYNTHIA NYPAVER: Recipient of the American College of Nurse-Midwives Excellence in Teaching Award

LEE TYSON: Inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

2022 American Academy of Nursing Fellows

Susan Brammer, PhD, associate professor, and Lee Tyson, DNP, associate professor and director of UC College of Nursing’s psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner programs were inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing in fall 2022, joining 3,000 esteemed nurse leaders worldwide.

The academy recognizes nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, practice, administration and academia. Academy fellows, who hail from nearly 40 countries, contribute their expertise to help transform health care and achieve health equity on a global scale.

Brammer’s contributions to nursing have impacted research and service in the area of mental health. As principal investigator for a large, multi-year, federally funded grant, she led a multidisciplinary team to create and disseminate virtual reality simulations that increase health care providers’ empathy and decrease their bias toward patients challenged by social determinants of health and stigma.

Tyson’s contributions to nursing take place in the practice arena and include creating an innovative, scalable business model for nurse-led interprofessional practices that expand the psychiatric-mental health (PMH) provider workforce, increasing patient access to PMH services and amplifying the voice of nursing in fighting the PMH and opioid crises in the U.S.

Through a competitive, rigorous application process, the academy’s Fellow Selection Committee reviewed a record number of applications, representing a 30% increase from the previous year, to select the 2022 fellows.