Mary Thomson Champagne Records, 1979-2016

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Summary

Creator:
Champagne, Mary Thomson.
Abstract:
Contains the professional papers of Mary Thomson Champagne. Champagne was the dean at Duke University's School of Nursing from 1991 to 2004. Types of materials include correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings, newsletters, handbooks, grant applications, reports, charts, speeches, brochures, presentations, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, evaluation forms, curriculum vitae, survey results, and budgets. Materials range in date from 1979 to 2016.
Extent:
13.5 Linear Feet (9 cartons) and 1.26 GB
Language:
English
Collection ID:
AR.0084

Background

Scope and content:

Contains the professional papers of Mary Thomson Champagne, former Dean of Duke University's School of Nursing. Types of materials include correspondence, notes, photographs, clippings, newsletters, handbooks, grant applications, reports, charts, speeches, brochures, presentations, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, evaluation forms, curriculum vitae, survey results, and budgets. Materials range in date from 1979 to 2016.

Biographical / historical:

Mary Thomson Champagne was born in 1946 in Ottawa, Illinois. She received a BSN from San Jose State College in 1968. Champagne attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with an MSN in 1975 and a PhD in 1981.
Champagne served in the Peace Corps from 1968 to 1971. While in the Peace Corps, she worked at the Hospital of Nursing in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan. From 1979 to1982, Champagne worked in the emergency department at St. Joseph's Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, as a part time staff nurse and eventually as a charge nurse. Champagne also worked as an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Nursing from 1977 to 1982. From 1981 to 1982, she served as the Chairperson of the Baccalaureate Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Nursing.
In 1982, Champagne became an associate professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's (UNC) School of Nursing (SON). In 1990, she served as the Chair of Adult and Geriatric Health at UNC-Chapel Hill's SON.
Champagne served as Dean of Duke University's SON from 1991 to 2004. During the 1980s, Duke's Nursing program was re-organized and new curriculum was developed. In 1984, the final class of students from the nursing baccalaureate program graduated. Beginning in 1991, under Champagne's leadership, Duke SON underwent a period of growth.
In 1995, Duke SON began the first-ever online, distance-based, graduate level program for nurses who worked in rural parts of North Carolina. Duke SON collaborated with the Southern Regional Area Health Education Center, East Carolina University, hospitals, and physicians to recruit nurses interested in becoming family nurse practitioners to provide primary care services in rural and underserved areas. In 2002, Duke's SON first offered an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) degree, a sixteen-month program open to students with an undergraduate degree in another field or subject.
When Champagne retired as dean in 2004, Duke SON's faculty had grown from five full time employees to thirty-eight, and student enrollment grew from fifty students in 1991 to 374 students in 2003.
Champagne has engaged in research related to improving the health of the community. Much of her work focused on quality and safely and improving health in low-income seniors living in subsidized housing in Durham, North Carolina. She has chaired the Durham Regional Hospital Trustee's Committee on Patient Safety and Clinical Quality, served on the Duke University Health System Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Committee, collaborated with clinical nurse specialists in Duke University Hospital in research studies addressing wound and ostomy care and quality of life. Additional research has focused on the prevention of acute confusion in hospitalized elderly patients. She was also the clinical nursing research specialist on the Disseminating Nursing Research Project, funded initially by the National Center for Nursing Research and then by the Division of Nursing.
Champagne has published widely in her research areas. She is a co-editor of five books, each of which received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award. In 1995, she received a Cameo Award for Outstanding Nurse Researcher from Sigma Theta Tau International. She is active professionally in the North Carolina Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau.
Champagne married David Champagne in 1968 in San Joaquin, California. They were married until 1990 and had three children.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2005.038 (transferred by Mary Thomson Champagne, July 2005), Accession A2016.022 (transferred by Mary Thomson Champagne, June 2016), Accession A2016.030 (transferred by Mary Thomson Champagne, July 2016)
Processing information:

Processed by Kahlee Leingang under the supervision of Lucy Waldrop: November 2017

Arrangement:
Organized into the following series: Administrative Records, 1982-2016; Academic Programs and Partnerships, 1979-2016; Digital Files, 1994-2016.
Rules or conventions:
DACS

Subjects

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Personal Name(s):
Champagne, Mary Thomson
Corporate Name(s):
Duke University. School of Nursing
Duke University. Medical Center
Topical Term(s):
Education, Nursing.
Faculty.

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Contains Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).
Contains Records of the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Medical Center. These include minutes and supporting documentation of the Board, its Executive Committee, standing and ad hoc committees, reports, studies, and the like presented solely to the Board. Records which have been existence for at least fifty years are available for scholarly research with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. Access to records which have been in existence for less than fifty years shall be granted only by special permission, in writing, of the Medical Center Board of Trustees.
Contains materials restricted at the folder level, in accordance with Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). For further information consult with the Medical Center Archivist.
Materials in box 9 are restricted and can only be accessed with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist.

Terms of access:

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Mary Thomson Champagne Records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.