![Logan University Doctorate of Health Professions Education Student Lora Timmons](https://i0.wp.com/www.logan.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lora-Timmons-Blog.png?fit=250%2C170&ssl=1)
Lora Timmons has been a higher education professional for 27 years, holding a variety of different roles from faculty, academic advisor and director of education to dean at two mid-sized, private universities in Chicago. She currently serves as the dean for nursing and health care at GateWay Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, a huge move she made in the middle of COVID (since she has lived in the Chicago area her whole life)! Working with first-year students has consistently been a passion for Lora, so this career choice seemed to be the right move in a much larger educational system. …