Faculty

Jennie Wagner has led and taught RN to BSN and RN to MSN programs at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has actively served on several accreditation agencies. Currently, Wagner is a board member and secretary for the Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (LEAARC), an appointed member of the NLN CNEA Program Review Committee, and a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) evaluator/volunteer representing UCF. She is a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) and an active member of Sigma Theta Tau. Wagner’s research and practice interests include lactation, human nutrition, NICU care, online education, educational outcomes, and minority college student completion.

Education

• EdD in Adult and Higher Education, North Carolina State University
• MS in Nursing Education, East Carolina University
• MS in Business Management, North Carolina State University
• BS in Nursing, East Carolina University

Selected Editorial Activities

• Co-editor, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant’s Guide
• Reviewer, International Journal for Human Caring
• Reviewer, Nurse Education in Practice
• Reviewer, Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Selected Awards & Honors

• Honoree (for Conception and Fetal Development), Fourth Biennial UCF Faculty Authors’ Celebration, 2024
• Health Science Library Author Recognition Awardee, 2022
• Appointed an evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2022
• Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Award at East Carolina University School of Nursing, 2015

Selected Professional Activities

• Program Review Committee Member, National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation
• Board Member and Secretary, Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee (LEAARC)