Jeanette Lancaster Papers, UVA School of Nursing Dean2022-020

Jeanette Lancaster Papers, UVA School of Nursing Dean2022-020


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The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

University of Virginia School of Nursing
P.O. Box 800782
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0782
mailto:nurs-hxc@virginia.edu
URL: http://www.nursing.virginia.edu/cnhi/

Maureen Spokes

Repository
The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Identification
2022-020
Title
Jeanette Lancaster Papers, UVA School of Nursing Dean 1989-2008
URL:
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/142092
Quantity
1.75 Linear Feet
Language
English .
Abstract
University of Virginia School of Nursing Dean and Associate Chief Nursing Officer from 1989–2008. Internationally recognized authority on community health nursing, nursing education, and public policy. Items include: correspondence, speeches, publications, and photographs. Additional documents generated during her tenure as dean include: strategic planning, development, UVA President's retreat, and School of Nursing initiatives (Diversity, End–of–Life Council).

Biographical / Historical

Jeanette Lancaster served nineteen years as the Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia and associate chief nursing officer at the University of Virginia (1989-2008). Some of her accomplishments include the fist endowed professorship in the United State (the Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professorship in Nursing) and the first female dean at the University of Virginia to have an endowed professorship in her honor, the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professorship in Nursing. She received her BSN from the University of Tennessee, her MS in psychiatric mental health nursing from Case Western Reserve University and a PhD in public health from the University of Oklahoma in 1977. She served as a professor and dean at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio (1984-1989), and a professor and administrator at University of Oklahoma. Some of the successful initiatives she accomplished during her tenure as UVA were securing support for the Claude More Nursing Education Building which was erected across the street from the McLeod Hall in 2007-2008, a strong spirit of collaboration with the University Medical Center and a strong relationship between the School of Nursing and the Alumni Association. In 1993 she created the Nursing Advisory Board to provide the School of Nursing with expertise and leadership from school alumni. She has been president of the American Association of the Colleges of Nursing since 2006. She is also a former board member of the National League of Nursing and the National Council for Compensation Insurance. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, she was chosen as a distinguished scholar in the National Academies of Practice. Lancaster has held numerous leadership positions in professional associations and has been honored nationally with various awards and honorary degrees. She has published more than fifty articles, edited or co-edited eight nursing textbooks, and presented more than 200 speeches, presentations and workshops in locations all over the world. She is recognized internationally as an authority on community health nursing, nursing education and leadership, and public policy. (This information was taken from "Farewell: Dean Lancaster's Legacy," by Cathy Eberly, Virginia Legacy, Spring 2008)

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of four boxes of the papers of Jeanette Lancaster, during her tenure as the Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia (1989-2008). It contains photographs, CDs, slides, speeches and publications by and about Lancaster. The first box contains graphics, including photographs, CDs, and slides. It also contains memos, correspondence and publications. The five CDs in Box 1 contain photographs, lecture notes, the AACN testimony Lancaster delivered on Mar. 13th 2008, transcripts from 33 speeches 2001-2008, 17 PowerPoint Presentations.

Box 2 begins the collection of speeches given by Dean Lancaster at the School of Nursing from 1988-1998. The speeches are documents, PowerPoint slides or handouts from PowerPoint presentations. Many of them contain bibliographies. Dates are sometimes provided on pages of transcripts. Some of the themes include: Nursing Shortage, Public Health Nursing, and Leadership in Nursing, Nursing Education and Community Health Nursing. The speeches are delivered at such regular school events as Graduation, Pinning and Recognition Ceremonies. The Dean's "State of the School Addresses" is in their respective folders by chronology. Speeches delivered at special events include Bice Lectures, Thomas Jefferson Society & the Phyllis J. Verhonick Research Conference. Box 3 continues with the speeches by Dean Lancaster delivered at the School of Nursing from 1999 to 2008. (See the Finding Aids List for specific names of speeches)

Box 4 begins the collection of speeches given by Dean Lancaster outside of the School of Nursing 1990-2007. This collection contains speeches given by the Dean at events such as Virginia Nurses Association Convention in 1991, the National Conference for Office, Clinic, School and Advanced Practice Nurses in 1995, The AACN Executive Development Series in 2000, Alumni Events, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia in 2004, UVA Medical Alumni in 2004, the AACN Fall Convention in 2004, Wright State University in 2006, University of Tennessee in 2006 & Forum for Virginia Magnet Hospitals in 2007. Folder 2 in Box 4 contains speeches delivered by Lancaster during her trip to Thailand, China and Hong Kong in 1992

Arrangement

Box 1 contains graphics, including photographs, CDs, slides, correspondence, and publications. There are five CDs in Box 1 which contain photographs, lecture notes, the AACN testimony Lancaster delivered on Mar. 13th 2008 before the Senate Committee, speech transcripts including Nursing Shortage and 33 speeches from 2001-2008. CD #2 has 17 PowerPoint Presentations. Folder one has various photographs in various mediums of Lancaster; these include portraits shots of various sizes and group shots. Folder three contains transcripts of interviews of Lancaster. Folder 4 and Folder 5 contain memos, correspondence and emails 1988-2003. Folder 4 holds correspondence to and from Lancaster which include plans for moving the School of Nursing. Folder 6 contains media releases, newspaper clippings about Lancaster and copies of "Message from the Dean" column in SON Alumni Newsletter. Folder 7 contains flyers of Presentations delivered by Lancaster from 1995-2007 which include: "Surviving a Changing Environment" The First Annual Community Health Symposium and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Convention in 2007. Publications in this box include: Highlights of Nursing Virginia 1900-2000 booklet, Congressional Record for April 10th 2008, GPO and "Farewell: Dean Lancaster's Legacy," by Cathy Eberly, Virginia Legacy, Spring 2008, Journal.

CD#1 (15) Photographs of Jeanette Lancaster, c. 1990-97 CD#2 (17) PowerPoint Presentations, c. 2004-2008 CD#3 (33) Speeches, c. 2001-2008, School of Nursing graduation, pinning ceremonies and State of the School address CD#4 "Nursing Shortage, AACN testimony, 3-13-2008 & nursing shortage advertisement CD#5 (4) Lecture Notes, (1) AACN testimony (1) agenda, (1) Interview, April 2008 CD#6 Photographs 2007-2008 CD#7 Dr. Barbara Brodie's Tribute 2008 CD#8 Dr. Barbara Brodie's Tribute PowerPoint 2008