77:. She was the chief of the organization's Psychiatric Nursing Education Branch. Between 1979 and 1981, she was the first nurse, female, or African-American to serve as the deputy director of the NIMH. In 1979 she was appointed by Patricia Roberts Harris, secretary of Health and Human Services, to the position of deputy director. During her time at the NIMH, according to her obituary in Nursing Outlook, she "played a major role in redirecting professional training to meet the needs of the unserved and underserved, a policy focus that continues to this day." While at NIMH, Dumas earned a doctoral degree from
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University of Michigan Academic Women's Caucus issues the Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award for "notable progress by academic units in achieving concurrent ethnic/racial and gender diversity in the faculty." Michigan and Yale have both established endowed chairs in their nursing
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University of Michigan for over 20 years, and she served three terms there as the nursing school dean. Dumas was the first Black female dean at Michigan, but left the position when she was appointed Vice Provost for Health and the Lucille Cole Professor of Nursing.
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Dillard University in New Orleans in 1951. Following graduation, she took her first jobs as a substitute teacher in Natchez and as the Nurse Director of Dillard University's Student Health Center.
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and joined the school's faculty, ultimately becoming an associate professor and the chair of psychiatric nursing. While at Yale, she served as a member of the Board of Public School
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