From the Hall to the Walls: A Racial Reckoning in Nursing
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022
A special lecture that examines racial disparities in nursing, featuring G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN.
Program Schedule
10:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks and Logistics, Co-Sponsors, Land Acknowledgement
Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion, Nese College of Nursing
10:15 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Laurie Badzek, LLM, JD, RN, FNAP, FAAN
Dean and Professor, Nese College of Nursing
10:30 a.m.
“Our Trip to the NBNA National Conference”
A Presentation by the Multicultural Student Nurses Association
Alexandra Reaves, Jacqueline Chiqui, Mamadi Kromah
11:00 a.m.
Gunter – Gooding Nursing DEI Lecture
“From the Hall to the Walls: A Racial Reckoning in Nursing”
G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN
Professor of Nursing, and Assistant Dean of Relational Excellence in the Adams School of Dentistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Sheldon D. Fields, PhD, RN FNP-BC, AACRN, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion, Nese College of Nursing
About G. Rumay Alexander
G. Rumay Alexander is a professor in the School of Nursing, assistant dean of relational excellence at the Adams School of Dentistry and formerly the associate vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion / chief diversity officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alexander has a wide range of experience contributing to transformative initiatives across healthcare and nursing. She served as the American Nurses Association’s scholar in-residence and advised the development of the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. She holds a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, a master of science in nursing and family nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt University, and a doctorate in education, administration and supervision from Tennessee State University.
About the Series
The Gunter–Gooding Lecture series is named in honor of two African American women who served as head of the Department of Nursing at Penn State University.
Dr. Laurie Martin Gunter, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN served as head of the Department of Nursing from 1971 to 1976, and again as interim department head from 1984 to 1985. She retired as professor emerita in 1987 after 16 years of University service. She was a well-respected researcher with a focus on nursing care of the elderly. She held Fellow status in the Gerontological Society of America and the American Academy of Nursing and was an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Gunter held a nursing diploma from Meharry Medical College, a bachelor of science in home economics from Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University, a master of arts in education from Fisk University and a doctorate in human development from the University of Chicago. She passed away on June 15, 2015.
Dr. Marion Gooding, PhD, RN was the fifth head of the Department of Nursing at Penn State and served from 1985 to 1987 when the department was part of the then College of Human Development. She also served as the dean of the School of Nursing at Tennessee State University prior to her arrival at Penn State. Gooding received her diploma in nursing from Saint Mary’s school of nursing, a bachelors and master’s in nursing from Teachers College – Columbia University, and doctorate in educational administration in higher education from Vanderbilt University.
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