Susan Kruger

is honored with a Brick from the WSU School of Nursing.

Susan Kruger, Associate Professor of Nursing, received her BA in biology at Tabor College in Hillsboro. She received graduate degrees in nursing and a specialist degree in marriage and family counseling from WSU. The PhD in education and child development was earned from K-State.

Kruger began her professional career as staff nurse, supervisor, and instructor in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was Director of a medical clinic in Congo, Africa for eight years and an instructor at Wesley School of Nursing in Wichita for six years. She began teaching at WSU in 1974 and has held various positions since then, including Chair of the Department of Nursing, which later became the School of Nursing under her leadership, and Assistant Dean of the College of Health Professions.

Her area of clinical practice and teaching has been pediatric nursing and counseling of families with young children, particularly disabled children. Parenting has been a topic of particular interest of Kruger. She is a certified family therapist. Research interests have been primarily on issues related to young families.

In 1993, Kruger received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the WSU Nursing Alumni Society. In the spring of 1995 the Susan Kruger Scholarship, an endowed fund created by the School of Nursing faculty and alumni, was named in her honor.

September 15, 1998