A memorial service commemorating the life and career of Lillian Goodman, EdD, dean and professor emeritus of the Graduate School of Nursing, will be held on Saturday, April 21, at 11 a.m. in the new Wellness Center at Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street. Dr. Goodman, a pioneer and passionate advocate of advanced practice nursing education in Massachusetts, died on Jan. 24 at the age of 94.
Goodman joined the GSN in 1991 as interim dean and professor. She was appointed dean in 1995, serving in that role until her retirement in 1999. Under her leadership, the GSN developed an adult acute/critical care nurse practitioner specialty in the Master of Science in Nursing program, and established a collaborative doctoral program with the UMass Amherst campus.
Goodman came to Worcester in 1973 to found a baccalaureate degree program for registered nurses at the then-Worcester State College; the program evolved into the Lillian R. Goodman Department of Nursing at Worcester State University.
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