Nursingmatters May 2016 • Volume 27, Number 4
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Celebrate Nurses Week!
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Nursing achievements
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Center for Nursing History
Longtime College of Nursing Dean Sally Lundeen is retiring June 30, capping a UW-Milwaukee career that’s spanned more than three decades.
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Caring has bittersweet price
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(UWM PHOTO/TROYE FOX)
Lundeen shifts energy from global to family She was an American Field Service exchange student in Japan, just 16 years old and far from her small hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. Sally Lundeen had no idea of the role she’d eventually play in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s College of Nursing, but during that self-described “life-changing” experience, the seeds were already being planted. The time abroad fueled the young Lundeen’s interest in international travel and cultural understanding. “We’re all really alike in many ways,” Lundeen said. “But the nuances of various cultures really affect everything – family, education and health.” The notion directly influenced her vision for the College of Nursing. She would help build longstanding health partnerships locally and worldwide during
her 31-year tenure there, including the last 15 as its dean. Now, as Lundeen looks toward her retirement June 30, she also looks back at helping shape the college’s work in community nursing, global health and interdisciplinary research. “In my estimation the role of a good urban research university is to provide ways that our students can connect and create knowledge about the community where we are located, as well as global health,” she said. Coincidentally, as the college celebrates Lundeen’s impact, it’s also celebrating
its 50th anniversary with a series of April events. Included on the schedule are a reception focused on the college’s community partners and a 50 Distinguished Alumni Reception. Many of those alumni crossed paths with Lundeen. She came to UW-Milwaukee as a professor in 1985, rose to become the College of Nursing’s interim dean in 1999 and was installed as its permanent dean in 2001. She’s the longest-serving dean in the college’s history, and has guided it through the crucial missions of education, research and community outreach. Two of the college’s ongoing initiatives – the Silver Spring Community Nursing Center, established in 1987, and the House of Peace Community Nursing Center,
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