On Thursday, April 24, Deborah Trautman ’04, PhD, Public Policy, was named Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). AACN represents 750 member schools of nursing at public and private institutions nationwide, and its educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor’s and graduate degree nursing education. “I’m honored and excited to take the helm of this important and respected organization,” Trautman said in an AACN press release announcing her appointment. “My goal is to bolster AACN’s longtime mission of finding new ways to improve the quality of …