Joane Moceri has begun her tenure as dean of the University of Portland’s School of Nursing, effective July 1. Moceri succeeds Joanne Warner, who retired after serving as dean of the School of Nursing since 2007. Moceri joined the University as an associate professor in 2012, and began service as the associate dean for the undergraduate nursing program in May 2013.
Before her time at UP, Moceri taught at the University of Washington Tacoma in the B.S.N. completion and graduate nursing programs, and was the founding director of the Pierce College Nursing Program where she focused on increasing the enrollment of underrepresented populations in nursing. Her scholarly endeavors have been published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as presented regionally and nationally. Moceri reviews for the Journal of Cultural Diversity, Nursing, Education Perspectives, and Qualitative Health Research, serves as an evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and is a member of the Western Institute for Nursing.
For more information contact the School of Nursing at 7211 or nursing@up.edu.