D.N.P. Inaugural Class of 2015 Scholarship
D.N.P. INAUGURAL CLASS ENDOWS SCHOLARSHIP
In 2015, eight students made SU history when they graduated from the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, the institution’s first doctoral program. Dr. Kathryn Fiddler, one of the members of the inaugural cohort and three-time SU graduate, has maintained close ties to her Alma Mater. She works as the vice president of Population Health at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional in Salisbury and also serves as chair of the College of Health and Human Services Advisory Board. Fiddler came to SU as a nontraditional student after beginning her service in the military. By the time she earned her Master of Science in nursing and entered SU’s D.N.P. Program, she was married with children and working earnestly to complete her degree.
Knowing that many graduate students have similar circumstances, going through school while working full time or trying to raise a family, she and her husband had decided to give back. “Our class is a phenomenal group of people,” Fiddler said. “I presented the idea of a D.N.P. scholarship to them, and they jumped on it without hesitation.”