A leader in diversity, the School of Nursing has worked to create an inclusive faculty and student body for more than 40 years, starting in the early 1960s when Georgia law still prohibited integrated colleges. Today, a third of Emory’s incoming nursing students are people of color. A leader in fighting the global shortage of nurse educators, the school offers the Summer Nursing Teaching Institute, a post-master’s certificate program that fast-tracks clinicians to become nursing faculty members.
Nurse practitioner Angela Goodridge is one of those clinicians. A nurse for more than 20 years, she read in a newspaper that students are being turned away from the nation’s nursing schools because there aren’t enough faculty to teach them. Determined to do something about it, she enrolled in Emory’s summer teaching institute. Now a nursing instructor at Georgia Perimeter College in Lawrenceville, Goodridge has joined the growing number of Emory-prepared faculty members who are dedicated to excellence in nursing education.
Your support will fortify the School of Nursing’s long-standing commitment to diversity and leadership, preparing new generations of nurses for careers in patient care, teaching, policy, and research.
