Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Christy Raymond has been reappointed to a second term as Dean, Faculty of Nursing, through June 30, 2031.
Since her appointment in 2021, Dr. Raymond has led a period of remarkable growth and renewal in the Faculty, advancing the priorities of Teaching Greatness while navigating the immediate impacts of the pandemic. Her efforts ensured that nursing students continued to access in-person lab and clinical training during campus restrictions, preserving timely credential completion and supporting Alberta’s health workforce when it was most needed.
Under her leadership, the Faculty of Nursing has welcomed more than 24 new tenure-track faculty and five new staff positions, re-departmentalized into four academic units, and implemented a Tactical and Operations plan that more closely connects Faculty work with institutional strategy. Major curriculum revisions to both baccalaureate programs were successfully completed following substantial consultation with internal and external partners. Dr. Raymond also led two sets of Targeted Enrolment Expansion grant submissions – all of which were approved – resulting in more than 250 new student seats and over $8 million in institutional funding. The Faculty has since launched the Bridge to Canadian Nursing certificate with an additional 140 funded seats per year.
As Vice-Provost (2024–25), Dr. Raymond helped strengthen simulation-based learning infrastructure in the Clinical Simulation Centre, recruiting new staff, redesigning lab operations, and supporting an AI-enabled equipment refresh that positions MacEwan as a national leader in immersive nurse education. During her first term, faculty research funding has doubled, scholarly dissemination has expanded significantly and a formal partnership with the University of the West Indies was renewed to encourage connection and mobility. The Faculty has also introduced equity admissions for Indigenous learners in the competitive programs, increasing pathways into the profession in response to community and system needs.
I am confident that Dr. Raymond will continue to build on this momentum as she leads the Faculty through the next phase of growth in teaching, research, and student success. Of course, she continues to hold her concurrent appointment as Professor in the Department of Integrative Nursing Systems, where her scholarship explores nursing education and practice at the intersection of pedagogy, equity and health-system readiness.
The President received the recommendation to reappoint from a committee assembled earlier this year. I would like to thank for their service Alannah St. Pierre, Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Dean; Brandi Pawliuk, Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health Nursing and Community Wellness; Danielle Curran-Cook, Lab Supervisor, Department of Professional Nursing and Allied Health; Jaida Davoren, Nursing student representative; Dr. Morgan Wadams, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Foundations and Science; and Dr. Richard Perlow, Dean, School of Business.
Dr. Craig Monk
Provost and Vice-President, Academic
Originally distributed via GlobalMail on October 28, 2025