Retiring IUSON dean nominated for Yale alumni fellowship

Angela Barron McBride, Distinguished Professor and university dean of the IU School of Nursing (IUSON), will step down after 25 years at the school in June, but that hardly means she’s retiring.

McBride has been nominated to serve a six-year term as a Yale alumni fellow for the Yale Corporation. If elected, she would be responsible for setting university policies and acting as a trustee and steward for the institution. Eligible Yale alumni may cast their votes for alumni fellows through May 25. McBride is a member of the Yale University Council and has chaired the council’s ad hoc committee on nursing. She has served on the Yale University School of Nursing alumni board and received Yale’s Distinguished Alumna Award.

During McBride’s more than 12 years as dean, IUSON has become one of the largest nationally accredited nursing schools in the country, with more than 2,000 students statewide. IUSON is the only nursing school in the country to offer all levels of academic preparation, ranging from associate to doctorate degrees, as well as postdoctoral research training and continuing education.

As an international leader in nursing education and women’s health, McBride has played an active role on a number of health issues locally and nationally. In addition to serving as dean for IUSON, McBride currently serves as senior vice president for academic affairs-nursing with Clarian Health Partners. She has served also on the boards of Central Indiana United Way, Methodist Health Foundation, Wishard Foundation and the Women’s Fund of Indianapolis.

Nationally, McBride has served on the advisory committee of the National Institute of Health’s Office of Women’s Health Research and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Colleagues in Caring Program. She also served as a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council. She was influential in building Sigma Theta Tau’s International Center for Nursing Scholarship during her presidency of the organization in the late 1980s.