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Delaney names nursing program as first of several nationally recognized flagships

It was hard enough for Dean Pamela Chally of the College of Health to keep the secret. Luckily, she only had to wait a few days before the announcement was made publicly.

“I think I said, ‘GO NURSING!’ Chally said about her reaction to the news that the nursing program would be selected as the first flagship program at the University of North Florida.

“I knew fairly early on that nursing was leading the pack, but still didn’t know until shortly before it was announced that nursing was definitely going to be the flagship,” Chally said.

UNF President John Delaney made the announcement July 5 in front of a classroom full of nursing students as well as a non-traditional crowd of faculty and administrators. The nursing program is the first of several flagship programs that will be chosen over the course of the next year. Continued...