FORT KENT – Rachel Albert, director of the nursing division at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, has been selected by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education to serve as a team evaluator.

CCNE is a national organization responsible for accrediting college and university nursing programs around the country.

Albert’s first task will be to participate in CCNE’s invitational evaluator program July 11-12 in Alexandria, Va. The training program is designed to provide information about the commission and the roles and responsibilities of on-site evaluators during the accreditation review process.

Albert then will be eligible to serve on a CCNE evaluation team, and may be asked to participate in the review of a nursing program at a college or university campus as early as the spring of 2004.

Albert has been a professor of nursing at UMFK since September 1990. She was named director and chairwoman of the division in 1999, and received promotion to associate professor that same year.

A 1985 UMFK alumna, she received her doctorate in 2001 from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in Cleveland, Ohio, and received her master of science degree in nursing from the University of Texas in 1990.