Diane McPhillips Diane McPhillips, nurse and assistant professor. Diane is a 1976 graduate of the Raymond Walters nursing program and, in 2000, she returned to campus to become an assistant professor, sharing her passion with a new generation of students. In 2002, Diane was the lead author or an $840,000 "Grant for Academic Initiative in Nursing" grant from the Bureau of Health & Human Services to make nursing education available to minority and underprivileged students. She currently serves as the program's academic advisor. She also created a new diversity course for the nursing department