Mayor Tom Barrett spoke at the Celebrating Community Impact event April 14, and presented College of Nursing Dean Sally Lundeen with a proclamation declaring UWM College of Nursing Day in Milwaukee.
According to the mayor’s proclamation, the College of Nursing:
Is celebrating a half-century of excellence as the backbone of Wisconsin’s nursing workforce as both the largest academic nursing program and the most highly ranked in Wisconsin.
Has established a 50-year legacy in research through its programs of translational research, including three research chairs and an internationally recognized, NIH-funded research center that is making significant advances in knowledge about self-management of chronic illnesses.
Has been a pioneer in academic community nursing centers world-wide, supporting four centers that have provided primary health care and public health services to thousands of families in Southeastern Wisconsin for more than 30 years.
Has coordinated complex, neighborhood-wide partnerships with Milwaukee for decades – the most recent of which has improved health in the Westlawn community with newly built toxin free public housing units, “clean” daycare centers and classrooms, expanded community gardens, a neighborhood bicycling club and a new community playground.
Has been successful in expanding diversity by increasing faculty diversity to 30 percent and undergraduate student diversity to 24 percent; and has expanded its impact locally and globally through its Center for Global Health Equity.
