Sandra Rogers and Mary Williams, assistant professors in the Brigham Young University College of Nursing, have been appointed to serve as new associate deans for the college.
Rogers will replace Donna Boland as the new associate dean for the baccalaureate nursing program."Boland has served with distinction and has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to the profession of nursing," said June Leifson, dean of the College of Nursing. "She is leaving to assume the associate deanship of nursing at Indiana University where she will be in charge of 2,000 students on seven different campuses."
Rogers has earned degrees from BYU, the University of Arizona and the University of California. She has been an instructor at BYU since 1980 and has been serving as an assistant professor since 1989.
She has done extensive research in cross-cultural adoption, immigrant children and primary health care programs. She was recently selected to be a consultant in Jordan for a primary nursing care program, a $12 million, six-year project.
In the past few years, Rogers has authored many articles about nursing and has been published in such professional journals as Nursing Science Methods: A Reader, Western Journal of Nursing Research and International Nursing Review.
Williams will be replacing Marilyn Lyons as the new associate dean for the graduate nursing program.
"Lyons has served in this capacity for the last four years and now will be reassuming her teaching and research activities here at BYU within the College of Nursing," said Leifson.
Williams received degrees from BYU and the University of Utah and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona. She plans to complete her doctoral dissertation and defend it this fall.
She has served as an assistant professor at BYU since 1982 and has been teaching since 1977.
Williams is a member of the Utah Nurses' Association, the American Nurses' Association and the American Heart Association. She has done countless lectures, workshops and conferences about nursing, with a particular emphasis on heart transplantation.
She has also been published in many professional journals such as Community Nursing Research and the Journal of Professional Nursing.