Wilkes University Holds Summer Commencement Ceremony on Sept. 9, 2018

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WILKES-BARRE, PA (09/05/2018) Wilkes University will hold its summer commencement ceremony on Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. in the Henry Gymnasium of the Arnaud C. Marts Sports and Conference Center. More than 300 graduates will receive bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the event.

Deborah Zbegner, dean of the Passan School of Nursing at Wilkes University, will deliver the commencement address.

Zbegner was appointed as the first dean of the Passan School of Nursing at Wilkes University in January 2015. In that role, she provides leadership and guidance for the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs in the Passan School. Zbegner has 21 years of teaching experience on the undergraduate and graduate levels, much of it at Wilkes. She served as the nursing school's director of graduate programs and in that role was responsible for strategic planning, overseeing operations and supervising curriculum, and student enrollment and retention for the nurse practitioner concentrations and the Doctor of Nursing Practice program.

Zbegner also has 30-plus years of professional experience in nursing which includes obstetrical, gynecological, and infertility nursing, ultrasound, university teaching, and governance.

She has 28 years of clinical practice as a nationally board-certified women's health nurse practitioner. Zbegner works in a collaborative physician practice caring for women across the life span and also serves as a clinical preceptor for nurse practitioner students within her practice site.

She earned her doctorate at Widener University, her master's degree in nursing at University of Pennsylvania and her undergraduate degree in nursing from DeSales University.

About Wilkes University:

Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, the university is on a mission to create one of the great small universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large, research university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small, liberal arts college, at a cost that is increasingly competitive with public universities. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 47 undergraduate majors, Wilkes offers 25 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.