Mary Baldwin University announced this week that Tynisha Willingham, PhD, will serve as interim provost and chief academic officer effective February 15. She began her tenure at MBU in the summer of 2020 as dean of the College of Education. “I am delighted to lead and shape the academic enterprise at Mary Baldwin University,” Willingham said. “We are a family that values rich and hard dialogues about pressing issues while holding a space for one another’s common humanity.”

“As demand for primary care physicians outpaces the supply, there is wide agreement that doctorally prepared advanced practice nurses are essential to solving the physician shortage and increasing access to healthcare both nationally and right here in the Shenandoah Valley,” said Pamela R. Fox, president of Mary Baldwin University. “The Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences was founded in 2014 to help enhance access to quality healthcare and the DNP is a natural extension of this mission.”

Flash back to 2018 in the courtyard of Bessie Weller Elementary School in Staunton. A team of MBU students, College of Education faculty, and Bessie Weller students and parents were hard at work building 20 raised garden beds and filling them with new soil. It was the beginning of a new resource for local elementary schoolers where they could experience hands-on how to grow, harvest, and prepare fresh fruits and vegetables.

Mary Baldwin University faculty and staff are accomplished beyond the classroom and walls of their campus offices. Beginning in fall 2020, faculty and staff were encouraged to share their successes and achievements with the university community. Read the latest accomplishments in scholarship, research, and professional development by MBU faculty and staff.