Save the date for Homecoming on our beautiful campus in Versailles, Kentucky! Homecoming will be held on March 22-23, 2024, and offers a great opportunity to reunite with friends and tour the campus. We will be offering multiple activities including a Continuing Education course, viewing of a documentary, and an annual awards dinner where we will honor several members of the FNU community. The deadline to register is March 12, 2024.
Guests can choose to stay on campus in one of our dorm rooms or coordinate your own accommodations. You can let us know if you would like to stay on campus through our registration page. On-campus lodging is available Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23. If you choose not to stay on campus, the Holiday Inn in Versailles, Ky., offers a rate of $115 per night.
Schedule of Events
March 23, 2024
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Continuing Education Session - Evidence in Practice: A Case Study for Successfully Treating Obesity
This activity is approved for 1.25 contact hour(s) of continuing education (which includes 0.75 hour(s) of pharmacology) by Frontier Nursing University.
Location: Community Center
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Guided Campus Tour
Location: Meet in the Welcome Center
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Gift Shop Open
Location: Lower Level of the Dining Hall
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Buffet Lunch with the President, Dr. Susan Stone
Location: Dining Hall
$10 per person for lunch, children are free
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
FNU Documentary - Nurse-Midwives: Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis
* 60-minute Documentary followed by a brief Q&A
Location: Community Center
Free to all, snacks provided
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Private Horse Farm Tour
Location: Mill Ridge Farm, a full-service thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington, Ky.
$50 per person
The tour kicks off in the breeding shed where you will gain an understanding of why this land is so uniquely suited for the Thoroughbred and learn the history of the Headley family and their involvement in the industry.
From there, you will follow the tour guide around the farm in a caravan, stopping at different locations to interact with horses of varying ages. You'll be able to get up close and personal with friendly equine residents, and even feed them carrots! The tour ends back in the breeding shed with our resident stallions, OSCAR PERFORMANCE, Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf winner with racetrack earnings over $2.3 million and who currently holds the world record for the fastest mile on the turf and our newest stallion, ALOHA WEST, Breeders Cup Sprint winner with earnings on the racetrack over $1.5 million.
Transportation to and from Mill Ridge Farm is included in the cost.
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Homecoming Awards Dinner, cocktail attire
* 6:00 p.m. Cocktails in the President’s House
* 7:00 p.m. Dinner and Awards in the Dining Hall
Location: President’s House & Dining Hall
$25 per person (awardees and a guest are complimentary)
Lodging Details
Frontier Nursing University has rooms blocked at the Holiday Inn in Versailles, Kentucky. Follow this link to get our group discount of $115 per night.
We are also offering lodging on our campus. The rate is $95 per person per night. The fee includes dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. Visit the registration page to reserve a room on campus.
Homecoming Weekend To-Do List
Justin C. Daily, BSN, RN, has ten years of experience in nursing. At the start of his nursing career, Justin worked as a floor nurse on the oncology floor at St. Francis. He then spent two years as the Director of Nursing in a small rural Kansas hospital before returning to St. Francis and the oncology unit. He has been in his current position as the Chemo Nurse Educator for the past four years. He earned an Associate in Nurse from Hutchinson Community College and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bethel College.
Brandy Jackson serves as the Director of Undergraduate Nursing Programs and Assistant Educator at Wichita State University and Co-Director of Access in Nursing. Brandy is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of experience. Before entering academia, Brandy served in Hospital-based leadership and Critical Care Staff nurse roles. Brandy is passionate about equity in nursing education with a focus on individuals with disabilities. Her current research interests include accommodations of nursing students with disabilities in clinical learning environments and breaking down barriers for historically unrepresented individuals to enter the nursing profession. Brandy is also actively engaged in Interprofessional Education development, creating IPE opportunities for faculty and students at Wichita State. Brandy is an active member of Wichita Women for Good and Soroptimist, with the goal to empower women and girls. Brandy is a TeamSTEPPS master trainer. She received the DASIY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty in 2019 at Wichita State University. 
Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine is an Arab-disabled queer woman of color with a PhD in Nursing and an interdisciplinary certificate in Disability Ethics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s doctoral research explored spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Dr. Jamal-Eddine now serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND). During her doctoral program, Sabrina served as a Summer Fellow at a residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute at Arizona State University (2023), a summer fellow at Andrew W. Mellon’s National Humanities Without Walls program at University of Michigan (2022), a Summer Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (2021), and an Illinois Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) trainee (2019-2020).
Vanessa Cameron works for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nursing Education & Professional Development. She is also attending George Washington University and progressing towards a PhD in Nursing with an emphasis on ableism in nursing. After becoming disabled in April 2021, Vanessa’s worldview and perspective changed, and a recognition of the ableism present within healthcare and within the culture of nursing was apparent. She has been working since that time to provide educational foundations for nurses about disability and ableism, provide support for fellow disabled nursing colleagues, and advocate for the disabled community within healthcare settings to reduce disparities.
Dr. Lucinda Canty is a certified nurse-midwife, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Seedworks Health Equity in Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, a master’s degree from Yale University, specializing in nurse-midwifery, and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Canty has provided reproductive health care for over 29 years. Her research interests include the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities in reproductive health, promoting diversity in nursing, and eliminating racism in nursing and midwifery.
Dr. Lisa Meeks is a distinguished scholar and leader whose unwavering commitment to inclusivity and excellence has significantly influenced the landscape of health professions education and accessibility. She is the founder and executive director of the DocsWithDisabilities Initiative and holds appointments as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Learning Health Sciences and Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Nikia Grayson, DNP, MSN, MPH, MA, CNM, FNP-C, FACNM (she/her) is a trailblazing force in reproductive justice, blending her expertise as a public health activist, anthropologist, and family nurse-midwife to champion the rights and health of underserved communities. Graduating with distinction from Howard University, Nikia holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in public health. Her academic journey also led her to the University of Memphis, where she earned a master’s in medical anthropology, and the University of Tennessee, where she achieved both a master’s in nursing and a doctorate in nursing practice. Complementing her extensive education, she completed a post-master’s certificate in midwifery at Frontier Nursing University.
Dr. Tia Brown McNair is the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. She oversees both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices, and student success. McNair directs AAC&U’s Summer Institutes on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, and TRHT Campus Centers and serves as the project director for several AAC&U initiatives, including the development of a TRHT-focused campus climate toolkit. She is the lead author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (January 2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (July 2016 and August 2022 Second edition).