History
2023
The First Issue of Humanitas
Humanitas: The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Magazine, is published.
2022
Mark Lazenby begins term as the second dean. The school moves into the Sue & Bill Gross Nursing and Health Sciences Hall.
2021
The UCI Institute for Future Health opens on campus, with nursing school leadership. A $3 million gift from the Sue J. Gross Foundation funds the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Simulation Center and the Founding Dean Adey Nyamathi PhD Endowment.
2020
The school establishes the first Center for Nursing Philosophy in the U.S.
2019
UCI Infectious Disease Initiative established with nursing school leadership.
2018
The FNP transitions to a postbachelor’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree, the first professional nursing doctorate with a nurse practitioner concentration in the University of California. l Post-master’s leadership DNP program commences.
2017
The University of California Board of Regents approve the change in status from a program to a school. l The school establishes the prelicensure Master’s Entry Program
in Nursing (MEPN), with a specialty in community and population health. Adey Nyamathi named founding dean.
2016
A transformative multimillion-dollar gift from the William & Sue Gross Family Foundation establishes the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing.
2014
Alison Holman becomes the interim program director.
2013
First PhD in Nursing Science cohort enrolled.
2009
Approval to offer the Master of Science degree for FNP students.
2007
First step toward a school: Program in Nursing Science.
The University of California Board of Regents approve UCI’s Program in Nursing Science in January. Ellen Olshansky becomes the director in July.
2002
Program adds master’s degree.
The program adds a master’s degree in nursing in partnership with California State University, Fullerton.
1998
UCI nursing faculty grows.
Susanne Phillips joins Knudtson and Tiso’s faculty team on the FNP certificate program.
1986-1995
Graduate program in nursing administration to become a state-funded post-master’s family nurse practitioner (FNP) certificate program.
Mary Knudtson and Susan Tiso lead the graduate program in nursing administration to become a state-funded post-master’s family nurse practitioner (FNP) certificate program within the UCI School of Medicine.
1986
Senior Associate Director Ellen Lewis establishes UCI’s first graduate program in nursing administration as an extension of UCLA’s graduate program.
1984
Ellen Lewis becomes director of nursing at UCI Medical Center (formerly Orange County Hospital).
