HPU Holds Dedication and Naming Ceremony for Teresa B. Caine School of Nursing
HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 26, 2024 – High Point University held a dedication and naming ceremony on Sept. 25 for the Teresa B. Caine School of Nursing. It marks the first academic school at HPU to be named after a prominent female leader.
The Caines have been longtime supporters of HPU. They were honored in September 2021 at the dedication ceremony for the Donald R. and Teresa B. Caine Conservatory. The 15,000-square-foot conservatory features a classroom, a working greenhouse, the Butterfly Café eatery and a planting display space. It serves as an area for students to conduct botanical research and propagate plants for the Mariana H. Qubein Arboretum and Gardens.
Teresa also gave a multimillion-dollar gift to create a preservation endowment that ensures HPU has the resources to maintain, sustain and improve the conservatory in perpetuity.
HPU’s 50,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art nursing complex in Parkway Commons was filled with students in purple scrubs, nursing faculty and special guests who attended to honor Teresa Caine, a member of HPU’s Board of Trustees. The school graduated its first class of Bachelor of Science in Nursing students in May and now has 119 pre-nursing and nursing students.
“We are very proud to have this school named in Teresa’s honor,” said HPU President Nido Qubein during the ceremony. “A campus like High Point University is often like a museum, highlighting the names and the stories of people who built significant enterprises in life with outstanding reputations and whose family is supportive of their effort. The Caines fit that perfectly.”
Teresa Caine and her late husband, Don Caine, have been involved and invested in HPU for many years. Don graduated from High Point College in 1965, and in 1966, the couple founded C&M Products, now known as Camco Manufacturing. When the company was sold in 2021, it employed more than 1,500 people and manufactured more than 5,600 products.
“When I walk on this campus because I have so much history here, it’s amazing to me what Dr. Qubein has done in such a short period of time, and it’s a pleasure to support this university,” Teresa Caine said at the event.
“Teresa and her late husband, Don, represent the American dream,” added Qubein. “They worked hard to build a thriving business, which in turn made a significant impact on the Piedmont Triad. High Point University has been blessed with continual support from the Caine family, and Teresa’s support for this school ensures that HPU will continue to produce high-quality nurses who are prepared to treat patients from day one.”
Dr. Racquel Ingram, founding dean of the school, thanked the Caine family for their support to help fill a national nursing shortage and to graduate nurses who are prepared to provide the highest level of care.
“All of you have received nursing care at some point in your life, whether recently or when you were born,” Ingram said. “You expect quality care every time. At the Teresa B. Caine School of Nursing, that’s exactly what we teach. You never know when one of these future graduates will provide the care you need, and they are committed to providing the absolute best care. Ms. Caine and family, thank you so much. We are committed to nursing. We are committed to our regulatory board that indicates that we must protect the public, and that’s why we instill these high standards and experiential learning to make sure our students provide extraordinary care.”
President Qubein presented Teresa Caine with a framed replica of the nursing school’s official academic banner. The event concluded with tours of the nursing complex, which includes a 16-bed skills lab with 14 diverse simulators modeling an acute care environment, as well as three high-fidelity simulation suites for adult health, pediatric and maternal/newborn.
