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New Latinx Studies Minor Available for 51看片Students

For the first time, a U.S. Latinx Studies minor will be offered to 51看片students this fall, headed by Melissa Birkhofer, a lecturer in the Department of English, who has been named director of the program. With the Hispanic population at 51看片exploding over the last decade, Birkhofer is excited to see the minor added to serve that group of students.  

Nursing

The Humanistic Perspective of Nursing and Its Potential to Address the Opioid and Addiction Crisis

Nursing addresses the human response to health and illness and has very different philosophical underpinnings from the medical model, which predominates in the US health care system. The medical model is based on a biomedical perspective, which is often focused on disease and illness and involves the use of a systematic method of collecting evidence to support the diagnosis of a disease or disease state.20 The medical model defines health as the absence of disease or illness and is historically rooted in Rene Descartes鈥檚 dualism, which presumes that the mind and body are separate entities.  

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Campus and community volunteers are backbone of university's biggest public event

The 45th annual Mountain Heritage Day festival is set for Saturday, Sept. 28, on fields behind the Cordelia Camp Building.  

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New, improved faculty/staff newsletter to be unveiled soon

Faculty and staff members are asked to take a brief survey in which they will have five choices to rename the new and improved news email.  

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Sigma Xi presents 'Science Cafe' event on group behavior in Sylva

Andrew Penland, assistant professor in math and computer science, will discuss 鈥淕roups Without Leaders.'  

Rosemary Yelton

Graduate student tabbed for Council on Collegiate Opioid Misuse

Since coming to 51看片 to complete her master鈥檚 degree in social work, graduate student Rosemary Yelton has seen firsthand the effects the opioid crisis is having on Western North Carolina. Wanting to help fight what has become a national epidemic, Yelton was excited to learn last summer that she had been named to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein鈥檚 Council on Collegiate Opioid Misuse.  

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Open forum to provide updates on strategic plan, enrollment, campus construction

The informational gathering will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.  

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ABC News' John Qui帽ones speaks about journey out of poverty, value of vulnerability

He delivered keynote remarks for the fall semester chancellor's list ceremony held at the Bardo Arts Center.  

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US News and World Report includes university in annual 'best of' rankings

The publication's lists are based on information collected from nearly 1,400 institutions during spring 2019 via an annual statistical survey.