Former NCCU Nursing Dept. Chair Returns to Lead During Period of Expansion

Betty Pierce Dennis, who chaired the Nursing Department at N.C. Central University from 1999 to 2004, has returned to chair the department as it heads into a period of expansion in a new, state-of-the-art teaching facility. Before her return to NCCU, Dennis was a professor of nursing and dean of the Division of Nursing at Dillard University in New Orleans. She was also the director and a professor at the Minority Health and Health Disparities Center, a collaboration between Dillard and Louisiana State University funded by the National Institutes of Health.