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SEC confident in medical experts’ green light to play 2020 season but will confer with Big Ten, Pac-12

by Eusebia Hyden on October 30, 2020 in Medical Devices

As the 2020 college football season hangs in the balance with the Big Ten and Pac-12 canceling fall sports on Tuesday, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has been steadfast that the conference is doing everything it can to safely play football next month. Sankey stressed patience and promised to make diligent decisions again Tuesday as his Power Five brethren pulled the plug on their seasons amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I look forward to learning more about the factors that led the Big Ten and Pac-12 leadership to take these actions today,” Sankey said in a statement Tuesday evening. “I

Emails show scramble over college apparently without faculty, students

by Eusebia Hyden on October 30, 2020 in Disease

Betsy DeVos launches investigation after USA TODAY report showed an accredited college, called Reagan National University, had no faculty or students.

USA TODAY

The door was locked. The man had knocked, but no one in the South Dakota business park answered.

The visitor was looking for Reagan National University, accredited as a small, for-profit college operating in Sioux Falls.

But he couldn’t find anything other than an architecture firm in this mostly empty building, he later said in a memo to colleagues. The man from the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools looked up the university and dialed

decreased budgets for college health centers

by Eusebia Hyden on October 29, 2020 in Health News

Recent survey data from the American College Health Association suggest that all is not well on college campuses when it comes to health and wellness.

Of respondents to the association’s survey who knew their health center budget allocation for the 2021 fiscal year, 43 percent said that budget would be a decrease from FY20 funding. And although 40 percent said they were expecting to hire medical professionals, nearly one-quarter said they were expecting reductions for those staff instead. Sixteen and 17 percent of respondents also said they expected staff reductions in mental health and health promotion services, respectively.

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College to host virtual Engineering and Technology Career Fair

by Eusebia Hyden on October 29, 2020 in Drug

The Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations (CDCR) in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering will host a virtual Engineering and Technology Career Fair on Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17. Students will have the opportunity to meet with a wide range of employers through an intuitive, user-friendly online interface.

“This is a great opportunity for students to get to know the current job market,” said Apryl Mullins, CDCR’s assistant director of corporate relations. “Despite the pandemic and alternate work arrangements, employers are still looking for qualified students to fill co-op, intern and full-time positions, so we encourage

Hospital Earns 2020 Digital Health Recognition

by Eusebia Hyden on October 29, 2020 in Hospital

October 22, 2020

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce that Community Hospital has earned 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition as a certified level 7. The CHIME Digital Health Most Wired program conducts an annual survey to assess how effectively healthcare organizations apply core and advanced technologies into their clinical and business programs to improve health and care in their communities.

The hospital received Most Wired awards in 2016 and 2017 and won the Most Improved category of the survey in 2009, 2013 and 2014.

“Being awarded as a CHIME Most Wired hospital