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And, since she has so much time on her
hands after dispensing with those duties, she naturally
decided recently that she could take on a bit more. During a
Sigma Theta Tau International (the Honor Society of Nursing)
convention in Indianapolis, Gray applied for the 2016-2017
Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy, a highly selective,
mentored leadership academy designed to foster academic
career success, to promote nurse faculty retention, to
encourage personal leadership development and to cultivate
high-performing supportive work environments in academe.
Out of all the applicants from around
the country, Gray was one of only 13 candidates accepted
into the program for the year and the only African-American
so honored. After acceptance she spent four days in
Indianapolis undergoing extensive training with the help of
leadership mentors and faculty advisors in order to “develop
my own leadership skills, taking it to the next level” she
says
Gray’s long-term goal is to research
the possibility of starting a dialogue about shared
governance (collaboration in the nursing profession) and
communication through the use of focus groups and surveys in
order to uncover what people think of communication and how
to best apply the lessons learned to everyday life – the
media to use, the formality necessary to conduct effective
communication, how communication aids in medical, legal and
other academic departments.
Gray earned her diploma in nursing
from St. Vincent School of Nursing and her bachelor’s from
Lourdes College (now Lourdes University). She then went on
to earn a masters in Business administration from Tiffin
University, a masters in the science of Nursing from the
University of Cincinnati and a doctorate in psychology from
the University f the Rockies.
Gray has been an instructor at UT
since the 2005/06 academic year rising to the position of
assistant professor three years ago.
She is a member of the American
Psychological Association, the Ohio Association of Advanced
Practice Nurses, STTI, the Order of the Eastern Star and
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