UVU Honors Dr. Dianne McAdams-Jones with Inaugural Black Academic Excellence Award

Please join us at a virtual celebration honoring Professor Dianne McAdams-Jones at the inaugural UVU Black Academic Excellence Award program today, February 28, 2022, at 1pm.

   

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us at a virtual celebration honoring Professor Dianne McAdams-Jones at the inaugural UVU Black Academic Excellence Award program today, February 28, 2022, at 1pm. 

The UVU Black Academic Excellence Award recognizes the contribution to academic excellence of faculty, staff, and students at UVU. Recipients must demonstrate academic excellence through scholarship, service, or leadership that has significant impact on the university. This award will be presented each year during Black History Month. 

Professor McAdams-Jones is the award’s first recipient. She is being honored as UVU’s first Black faculty member to attain full professorship. Dr. McAdams-Jones was born a sharecropper’s daughter in South Carolina. In 1973 she became a first-generation Baccalaureate in Nursing Science at Tuskegee University in Alabama. After completing a graduate program in Education Management at Tuskegee University, she served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps for eight years, entering as a captain and exiting as a major. After a 7-year childbearing hiatus, she reentered the workforce. She completed a graduate degree in nursing science with a Nurse Educator Certificate and Ed.D. in Health Professions at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, followed by a completion of a post-doctorate in nursing education from Teachers College of Columbia University in 2018. She is credentialed by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and a Harvard-educated Simulation Course Instructor. Dr. McAdams-Jones is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Watch a livestream of the event below: https://youtu.be/Dts3kB9a4AY

 

Best regards,

Wayne Vaught
Provost and Senior Vice President
Academic Affairs

Marilyn Meyer
Vice President of People and Culture