Three former Quad Cities directors win Legacy Award
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Three former directors of the Quad Cities Campus were the recipients of the 2018 Quad Cities Director’s Legacy Award, which honors individuals who promote the continuity of the program and have given service to the unit.
Kathleen Sparbel, current director, said the recipients were “the foundation of establishing the UIC Quad Cities Campus and of shaping not only the program, but the lives of our graduates.”
Kathleen Hanson
Dates of service: April 1990-August 1993, and August 1998-July 2002
“Kathy Hanson brought a strong background in community engagement, collaboration building, program development, curriculum, public health, and historical perspective,” Sparbel said. “She was instrumental in establishing the QC program for RN-to-BSN education and was the first UIC faculty in Quad Cities.”
Mary Ann Anderson
Dates of service: September 2010-January 2012.
“Mary Ann Anderson inspired scores of students to consider scholarship as something nurses could not only understand, but were well positioned to create,” Sparbel said. “Many of our alumni were proud to present at professional conferences and publish research under her mentoring.”
Pamela Hill
Dates of service: August 1994-August 1998 and August 2002-August 2010.
“Pam Hill showed students what it meant to have true passion for research and scholarship,” Sparbel said. “To her credit, many of her students were better scholars and understood the rigors of statistics and of perseverance through scholarship, having worked with her.”