Baylor University Provost Nancy Brickhouse, Ph.D., announced today that Tanya M. Sudia, Ph.D., R.N., FNAP, FAAN, has been selected as Dean of Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing, effective June 1. Dr. Sudia will succeed Linda Plank, Ph.D. R.N., NEA-BC, who will retire this summer.

A highly accomplished nursing leader, Dr. Sudia is currently Interim Dean, Chief Nursing Officer and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Before joining UTA in 2024, she served four years as Dean of Augusta University College of Nursing, the state of Georgia’s largest public university nursing program. A Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Dr. Sudia returns to Baylor where she served from 2014-19 as the School’s inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and a tenured Professor of Nursing.

Continue reading the complete announcement on the Baylor University website here.