Dr. Linda Comer To Be Next Dean Of School Of Nursing At FSC

Florida Southern College is pleased to announce that Dr. Linda Comer will join the faculty as the new dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences. She will assume her duties in July. 

Dr. Comer brings more than 30 years of experience as an administrator, educator, and health practitioner to her new position. She comes to FSC from Western Carolina University, where she is the executive associate director and associate professor in the School of Nursing. In that post, she has oversight of academic and student affairs in five graduate and four undergraduate nursing programs.

As dean, Dr. Comer will lead a burgeoning program at FSC that boasts a newly expanded, state-of-the-art facility, the Joe K. and Alberta Blanton Nursing Building. The program includes traditional bachelor’s and RN-to-BSN degrees, a MSN degree with three career tracks, and post-master’s certificates. Dr. Comer will also oversee the athletic training and exercise science programs at FSC.

Dr. Comer holds a bachelor of science in nursing from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, masters’ degrees in counseling and nursing education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D. from UNCG. She has 23 years’ experience as an intensive care nurse, a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist, and in counseling and psychotherapy. She began her academic career in 1992 as an assistant professor of nursing at North Carolina A&T and has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in addition to Western Carolina University, where she joined the faculty in 2008.

“Our School of Nursing and Health Sciences has become renowned for training nurses who provide the highest standards of care,” said FSC Provost Kyle Fedler. “Dr. Linda Comer is a gifted leader who has a unique grasp of the modern nursing profession, and we are confident that she is the right person to lead this program to the next level of excellence.”