About OCI - Dr. Peg Gray-Vickrey

Dr. Peg Gray-Vickrey, Associate Vice President for Curriculum and Instruction

Peg Gray-Vickrey, Professor of Nursing, has served as Associate Vice President for the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at Florida Gulf Coast University since February of 2005. In her leadership role in the Office of Curriculum and Instruction, Dr. Gray-Vickrey has oversight of undergraduate education including Academic Learning Compacts, American Democracy Project, Center for Academic Achievement, Center for Civic Engagement and the Service Learning Program, Collegiate High School, Curriculum Development, First Year Reading Project, General Education Program, Honors Program, New Student Convocation, and the Quality Enhancement Plan.

Dr. Gray-Vickrey was a founding faculty member of the School of Nursing and was one of four faculty that designed the curriculum for the program and developed all School of Nursing policies and procedures. She holds her Doctor of Nursing Science from University at Buffalo, M.S. in Nursing Care of the Older Adult from Northern Illinois University, and B.S.N from State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Dr. Gray-Vickrey is certified in Gerontological Nursing through the American Nurses Association.

Dr. Gray-Vickrey has received multiple awards for her teaching, scholarship, and service. She received University at Buffalo's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1992 and Lycoming College's Junior Faculty Teaching Award in 1994. In 1993 she was awarded the Pennsylvania Nurses Association Research Excellence Award. In1995 she was awarded Sigma Theta Tau's International Dissertation Award. In 1999, she was awarded Florida Gulf Coast University's Professor of the Year. In 2003 she received the FGCU Excellence in Faculty Service Award and in 2005 she received the Excellence in Team Service Award.

Dr. Gray-Vickrey is President of the Board of Directors for the Alvin A. Dubin Alzheimer's Resource Center. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Heritage Institute-Centers for Lifelong Fulfillment and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Geriatric Nursing and Nursing 2007. She is a frequent presenter at national conferences on Alzheimer's disease and other areas in gerontology, and is widely published in the field.