Mar 25, 2024 | Career Insights, Nursing
At a time when hospitals and medical centers are struggling to adequately staff their nursing departments, nursing schools across the United States are regularly turning qualified applicants away due to a lack of dedicated faculty members. In its attempts to raise...
Mar 22, 2024 | Eagle Eye View
This Week’s Activity and Event Highlights Women’s History Month – “A Red Carpet Event”Tuesday, March 26, 2024 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Eastern time | Leever Student Center – Lobby Center for Career and Professional Development...
Mar 22, 2024 | Nursing, Student Spotlights
As a high school student in Georgia, Halea Caudill participated in a dual enrollment pathway to earn her Certified Nurse Aide credential while pursuing her high school diploma. “That’s when I realized how much I enjoyed patient care and that nursing was my ultimate...
Mar 21, 2024 | Career Insights, Computer Information Systems
Our technological landscape is built on a system of codes: series of numbers, letters, and characters that act as instructions that can be scanned and executed by computers. From the end user’s perspective, these languages are not easily observed. Without them,...
Mar 20, 2024 | Nursing, Student Spotlights
When Felicia Miley was a teenager growing up in Paris, France, she followed one of the typical upper-secondary pathways for French students and earned a vocational baccalaureate degree. She joined a major bank as an executive secretary, but by age 25, she felt...
Mar 20, 2024 | Nursing, Student Spotlights
For Norma Hilsmann, nursing was something of a family business. “My mom and both brothers were nurses, but I was a little bit of a rebel and planned to do something else,” says Norma, who grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia. That ‘something else’ was becoming...
Mar 20, 2024 | Nursing, Student Spotlights
As the daughter of a missionary, Igng Vildor was inspired by her mother from a young age. “My mom was a nurse who worked primarily with older patients and often went on medical mission trips to impoverished countries,” she recalls. “She brought my four siblings and I...
Mar 19, 2024 | Criminal Justice
As the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) puts it, the United States does not have a single criminal justice system, but rather, “thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems.” In fact, the US is home to 3,116 local jails, 1,566 state prisons, 1,323...
Mar 18, 2024 | Career Insights, Nursing
You have completed rigorous nursing coursework, clinicals, and professional exams. Now, you are ready to take the next step in your nursing career and find a job you love. First, however, you have one more hurdle to clear: the nursing interview. Interviewing is a must...
Mar 15, 2024 | Eagle Eye View
This Week’s Activity and Event Highlights Center for Career and Professional Development – “Employer Spotlight featuring Morgan Tuck and the Connecticut Sun” EventTuesday, March 19, 2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern time | MacDermid Hall...
