News Release
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June 30, 2006
Boise State Selects Jeri Bigbee as Idaho's First Endowed
Nursing Professor
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Jeri L.
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Jeri L. Bigbee has been named the first recipient of the JoAnna “Jody”
DeMeyer Endowed Chair in Nursing at Boise State University. The position,
the first endowed chair in nursing in the state of Idaho and Boise State’s
first-ever fully endowed chair, is funded by a gift of more than $3 million
from the estate of Jody DeMeyer, a nursing administrator and educator who
passed away in March 2004.
Bigbee will start her new position Aug 11. She previously served as the
Orvis Endowed Professor at the Orvis School of Nursing in Reno, Nev. Most
recently, she taught and was a consultant at California State University,
Stanislaus. A specialist in community health nursing, with an emphasis in
rural and frontier nursing, she has also done research on health promotion
with families and communities.
“I am thrilled to have Dr. Bigbee join the faculty at Boise State
University,” said Pam Springer, chair of the Nursing Department. “She will
add greatly to our ability to better serve the health care community in the
areas of research and service.”
Bigbee is looking forward to working with faculty and staff to develop
collaborative research programs as well as innovative practice and teaching
models that reflect the specific needs of the state and region. “This is a
uniquely creative position designed to promote excellence in nursing
education, scholarship and practice at Boise State and beyond,” she said. “I
am truly honored to have been selected as the first Jody DeMeyer Endowed
Professor.”
Bigbee has been a nurse educator since 1980 in Wyoming, Nevada and
California. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Columbia University, her
master’s degree at the University of Washington and her Ph.D. at the
University of Texas at Austin.
Boise State’s nursing program is the largest in the state, with more than
500 students and 120 nursing graduates each year. DeMeyer’s goal was to
provide a continued source of revenue for the Boise State nursing program
that would allow it to, in her words, “expand, enhance and perpetuate the
hallmark of nursing excellence in education, practice and leadership” among
faculty and students.
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Contact: Pam Springer, Department of Nursing, (208) 426-4143,
pspring@boisesetate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
July 12 is the deadline for
undergraduate academic degree-seeking students to submit admission materials
to Boise State University for the fall 2006 semester. Students must meet the
deadline if they plan to take more than seven credits or apply for federal
financial aid. For more information, call (208) 426-1820 or go online at
http://admissions.boisestate.edu.
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