Driving innovation at the highest level

Donors from around the world are investing in the future of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing’s deanship. The Connie White Delaney Dean’s Leadership Chair is a direct response to the nationwide nursing faculty shortage, which will intensify the need for top-tier deans of nursing schools for years to come. Currently, only a few peer institutions across the country offer endowed deanships. When fully funded, this chair will ensure that the school will support, and most importantly enable, all future deans to drive innovation at the highest level.

Empowering Future School Leaders

A dean’s chair is a vital resource for advancing excellence in executive leadership innovation and practice. The chair’s endowment retains its value over time through careful investment, generating annual income. The dollars made available each year by the endowment will:
• Fuel innovation: Provide the dean with the flexibility to pursue groundbreaking initiatives that will shape the future of nursing and health care.
• Develop future leaders: Support the dean’s efforts to mentor and develop generations of nursing leaders.
• Enhance compensation: Ensure that the School of Nursing can offer a compensation package in the upper echelon of public schools of nursing nationally.

Join donors like Michael Bleich, PhD, RN, FAAN. “As a former collegiate dean of nursing myself, I can attest to how this chair will play a significant part in securing top leaders for a school of prominence,” he said about his motivation to donate. With less than $500,000 left to raise toward the $2 million needed to complete this cornerstone endowment, your gift will help forge a perpetual conduit for a diverse and extraordinary deanship. To learn more, contact Maria McLemore, major gift officer, at 612-625-1365.

Connie White Delaney Dean’s Leadership Chair benefactors

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Jeannine Bayard and Kip Lilly
Michael Bleich
Kathleen Buckwalter
Joanne Disch and Jane Barnsteiner
Melanie Dreher
Susan Forstrom
John and Nancy Frobenius
Mary and Rolf Hauck
Sharon Lehmann
Karen and Brian MacDonald
Andrew McIlree and Sarah Quinn
Maria McLemore and Alexander Hines
Marilee and John Miller
Rick and Jeanne Norling
Sharon Oxborough
Marjorie and Robert Page
Hyeoun-Ae Park
Daniel Pesut and Susan Ziel
John G. and Judith Reiling
Jeannine Rivet and Warren Herreid II
Pat and Jerry Robertson
Michael Rohovsky
Sharyn and Larry Salmen
John Hoshal and Mary Sumpmann
Dee and James Thibodeau
Eileen Vinnes Kalow
Charlotte Weaver
Bonnie Westra
E. Clark White and Christopher Jordan
Edward and Noreen Zimmerman