Dr. Marcia Maurer, dean of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing, has been elected to serve a two-year term as an American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) board member at large. Maurer will begin her term of service following the AACN Spring Annual Meeting on March 18.
Deans and directors from the nation’s schools of nursing with baccalaureate and higher degree programs choose nursing leaders that they think best embody their interests and will help advance AACN’s mission. Maurer has proven to be one of Illinois’ most visible nursing advocates through her service as a governor appointee on the Illinois Center for Nursing Advisory Board, on the Southern Illinois Healthcare System Board of Trustees, on the Illinois State Genetics Planning Services Committee and on the Governing Board for the Washington University Institute for Clinical & Translational Sciences. She has served on the government affairs committee for AACN and on several conference planning committees over the past six years. Maurer is one of seven deans filling seats on the AACN Board of Directors and nominating committee.
Jane Kirschling, AACN president, announced the results of the 2013 election. “On behalf of AACN’s member deans, faculty, and students, I applaud this distinguished group of nursing leaders for their strong commitment to advancing the goals of professional nursing education and research,” she said. “As the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education, AACN is at the forefront of transforming how nurses are being educated and how patient care is being delivered. We welcome the new and returning members to the Board who will help to steer this important work and provide the leadership needed to take the organization to new heights.”