Hamden’s Quinnipiac University named Jean Lange of Woodbridge as the inaugural dean of its nursing school, which launches July 1.
Lange and the nursing school will be based on the North Haven campus, which also will house the planned School of Medicine.
Quinnipiac said the nursing school recognizes the profession’s growing role in health care today. In addition, the university’s two-year nurse practitioner master’s level program will transition to a three-year clinical doctorate program this fall.
Quinnipiac has had a nursing department, but the school is now trying ramp up the program by creating a separate school for the academic discipline.
For the past 13 years, Lange has been a professor of nursing in Fairfield University’s School of Nursing, where she also directed the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.
Lange has also been a part-time faculty member at Yale University’s School of Nursing and an adjunct professor in Quinnipiac’s nursing program.
Lange earned a doctorate in nursing at the University of Connecticut. She earned her master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University.
