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Higher Education in Maryland

December 2007 Press Release

 

 

 

NEW NURSING FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED

Awards help recruit and retain nursing faculty

 

 

Annapolis, MD (December 4, 2007) – The Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), in affiliation with the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, is pleased to announce 20 winners of the 2007 New Nursing Faculty Fellowships. The Fellowship program is an incentive grant program designed to help Schools of Nursing attract and retain qualified faculty.


Awards are made to new, tenure-track or tenured, full-time nursing faculty members nominated by their deans or directors. The grants provide each fellow with $20,000 over a three-year period for professional expenses or as a salary supplement.


This year’s new fellows are faculty at five Maryland colleges and universities:

  • Chesapeake College – Jean Lowe, Assistant Professor; Heather Westerfield, Assistant Professor

  • Coppin State University – Teresa Richardson, Assistant Professor; Charlotte Wood, Assistant Professor; Dr. Nayna Philipsen, Assistant Professor; Patricia Setlow, Assistant Professor; Amelia Bell-Hawkins, Assistant Professor; Karen Womack, Assistant Professor; Danita Tolson, Assistant Professor; Kathy Barnes, Assistant Professor; Aquetta Jenkins, Assistant Professor; Natalie Hart, Assistant Professor; Dr. Denise Pope, Associate Professor

  • Montgomery College – Ching Chuen Feng, Associate Professor; Wendy Wells, Assistant Professor; Monique Alston-Davis, Assistant Professor; Karen Cumberbatch-Sullivan, Associate Professor

  • University of Maryland Baltimore – Denise Owens, Clinical Instructor

  • Wor-Wic Community College – Sharon Contini, Instructor; Barbara Manry, Instructor

The New Nursing Faculty Fellowships are funded under the Nurse Support Program II. The goal of the Nurse Support Program II is to increase the number of qualified bedside nurses in Maryland hospitals. These fellowships allow the nursing schools and departments to expand their capacity for nursing students by hiring highly qualified nurse educators.


“I am very proud of the recipients of these Nursing Faculty Fellowship Awards,” said Maryland Higher Education Secretary James E. Lyons, Sr. “Bold, progressive programs such as the New Nursing Faculty Fellowship Awards will help Maryland’s institutions of higher learning retain and recruit quality nurses which are needed in this great State.”


The Maryland Higher Education Commission is a 12-member coordinating board responsible for establishing statewide policies for Maryland public and independent colleges and universities and private career schools. It serves as an advocate for more than 300,000 college students in Maryland, for the State and its needs, and for business and industry in Maryland.
 

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