Frontier Nursing University (FNU) has been named a recipient of the 2025 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. The annual Health Professions HEED Award is a national honor recognizing U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to academic excellence, belonging, and community-building across all levels of campus life.
FNU will be featured, along with 27 other recipients, in the October 2025 issue of Insight Into Academia magazine. This is the eighth consecutive year FNU has been named as a Health Professions HEED Award recipient.
“We are pleased and honored to have been named a HEED Award recipient again this year,” said Dr. Brooke A. Flinders, President of Frontier Nursing University. “We prioritize creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive environment that enables our students, faculty, and staff to flourish. We graduate over 1,000 students from across the country every year. It is our responsibility and duty to prepare these nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives to serve their communities as proficient and compassionate healthcare professionals. The comprehensive HEED Award application is a valuable tool for us to self-evaluate and identify areas in need of improvement.”
“We take a detailed and somewhat holistic approach to reviewing each application in determining who will be named a Health Professions HEED Award recipient,” said Lenore Pearlstein, Co-Publisher of Insight Into Academia magazine. “Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where academic excellence and belonging are woven into the work being done every day across their campus.”
For more information about the 2025 Health Professions HEED Award, visit insightintoacademia.com.
