BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Donna Hartweg, former director of the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Nursing and Caroline F. Rupert Professor of Nursing, will retire in December after 31 years at the University.
“This has been the most wonderful job in the world,” said Hartweg. “I have been able to stand up in front of high school students and talk about what a fantastic place Illinois Wesleyan is. Then I watched those students select IWU, mature and walk across that Commencement stage four years later, and know they are better prepared for the world.”
A graduate of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Hartweg began teaching at Illinois Wesleyan in 1978. Earning master’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Illinois State University, she was appointed acting director of the Illinois Wesleyan’s School of Nursing in 1990. She earned her doctorate from Wayne State University in Michigan in 1991, the same year she was named director of the IWU School of Nursing.