Eileen
Weber
May 2017
Eileen
Weber
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Minneapolis
,
MN
United States
Dr. Weber is teaching our students, mentoring them, and publishing with them.
Dr. Eileen Weber is a very vital member of our School of Nursing. A quick review of her Curriculum Vitae will tell you that she exemplifies a socially engaged faculty member. What is clear from her student co-authored publication and student-involved initiatives is that she is passing on her knowledge and enthusiasm for social engagement and social change to the next generation.
She is or has been actively involved in an impressive number of social/political initiatives. She invests her time and energies to create policies and actively supports the development of legislation to benefit our society. Attesting to her social and political engagement, she has received the Political Action Award from the Minnesota Nurses Association. Her career has been rich in experience to inform her perspectives.
For example, she has served as a congressional campaign manager and is knowledgeable of healthcare issues as she was a program coordinator/lobbyist in Minnesota as part of the Universal Healthcare Coalition. Indeed, the breadth of her past positions and employment give her perspectives that are unparalleled. She has been appointed in 2016 to the Center for Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board. She publishes with her students of issues social relevance. I can summarize her CV in a statement: If an issue is of concern to our society’s well-being, you can count on Dr. Weber to be well-informed about it and to formulate and state her view of, and to take appropriate action to address it! I have come to conclude that if the societal issue is relevant and current, she is the most informed source on our faculty. She publishes her views and perspectives in professional venues and popular press. This latter is an essential platform for nursing to engage in to voice our perspectives to the citizens of our state. Her ability and willingness to voice her social and political opinions are hallmarks of social engagement.
Dr. Weber is teaching our students, mentoring them, and publishing with them. She has recently developed a self-directed study course on nursing experience in public policy. Within the School of Nursing, she is serving on the Inclusivity and Diversity Committee in the School of Nursing and is a Director for the Densford Center’s Policy Dialogue Series. She does not shy away from public service and has worked on many initiatives for state and local government. Having served in the legislative action team, and planning councils, and commissions in the state, and has been a candidate for office, she is an ideal mentor and teacher, an authority in our midst, well prepared for the teaching of social engagement.
In summary, Dr. Weber is a role model and an activist who beckons us to higher standards of social engagement. She teaches social activism and engagement, and models it, actually immersing herself in efforts to achieve a better society and to strive for a better common good. She has an exceptional dedication to the profession and has made substantial contributions to the profession of Nursing through her social engagement and has made a difference in the of those she serves. She has also enriched the perspectives of those with whom she teaches and faculty and staff with whom she works within the School of Nursing and beyond.
She is or has been actively involved in an impressive number of social/political initiatives. She invests her time and energies to create policies and actively supports the development of legislation to benefit our society. Attesting to her social and political engagement, she has received the Political Action Award from the Minnesota Nurses Association. Her career has been rich in experience to inform her perspectives.
For example, she has served as a congressional campaign manager and is knowledgeable of healthcare issues as she was a program coordinator/lobbyist in Minnesota as part of the Universal Healthcare Coalition. Indeed, the breadth of her past positions and employment give her perspectives that are unparalleled. She has been appointed in 2016 to the Center for Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board. She publishes with her students of issues social relevance. I can summarize her CV in a statement: If an issue is of concern to our society’s well-being, you can count on Dr. Weber to be well-informed about it and to formulate and state her view of, and to take appropriate action to address it! I have come to conclude that if the societal issue is relevant and current, she is the most informed source on our faculty. She publishes her views and perspectives in professional venues and popular press. This latter is an essential platform for nursing to engage in to voice our perspectives to the citizens of our state. Her ability and willingness to voice her social and political opinions are hallmarks of social engagement.
Dr. Weber is teaching our students, mentoring them, and publishing with them. She has recently developed a self-directed study course on nursing experience in public policy. Within the School of Nursing, she is serving on the Inclusivity and Diversity Committee in the School of Nursing and is a Director for the Densford Center’s Policy Dialogue Series. She does not shy away from public service and has worked on many initiatives for state and local government. Having served in the legislative action team, and planning councils, and commissions in the state, and has been a candidate for office, she is an ideal mentor and teacher, an authority in our midst, well prepared for the teaching of social engagement.
In summary, Dr. Weber is a role model and an activist who beckons us to higher standards of social engagement. She teaches social activism and engagement, and models it, actually immersing herself in efforts to achieve a better society and to strive for a better common good. She has an exceptional dedication to the profession and has made substantial contributions to the profession of Nursing through her social engagement and has made a difference in the of those she serves. She has also enriched the perspectives of those with whom she teaches and faculty and staff with whom she works within the School of Nursing and beyond.