The topic today is higher education in Arizona, with our focus on Yuma and La Paz Counties.
Last week the Arizona Board of Regents announced the Arizona Innovation Alliance. It is a partnership of the state’s three public universities - Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona - to enhance public higher education across the state.
The first place the alliance will focus on to improve the retention, graduation and academic performance of traditionally underserved students is Yuma. They will be working with Arizona Western College to figure out exactly how to do it.
At the same time, this week we have news of efforts by the Arizona Legislature to expand four-year degree opportunities by allowing state community colleges to offer them. An effort that is now in the State Senate.
HOST (LOU GUM): This is Arizona Edition on KAWC. I m Lou Gum.
We re talking today about the COVID-19 pandemic - this time taking a look back at the response here in Arizona by state and local leaders, and health experts.
My guest is Will Humble, Executive Director of the Arizona Public Health Association and director of the Arizona Department of Health Services from 2009 to 2015, a department he held various positions in beginning in the early 1990s.
Humble gives a range of letter grades to the state health director, Dr. Cara Christ, and Governor Doug Ducey, for their response to the pandemic, and addresses the uneven distribution of resources across urban, rural, ethnic and economic divides.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has asked the federal government for more COVID-19 vaccine for state residents. Most will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine , but
On this episode of KAWC’s Arizona Edition, host Lou Gum speaks with Dawna Cato, Chief Executive Officer of the Arizona Nurses Association, about how Arizona nurses have weathered the pandemic.
We ve taken some hits. Our family members have gotten sick, or we ve gotten sick. But we continue to be resilient and have the capacity to absorb what has been thrown at us this last year. -Dawna Cato, Chief Executive Officer of the Arizona Nurses Association,
Catos said the impacts have been both professional and personal for the dedicated nurses across the state.
We’ll hear about the role they’ve played in helping shape patient care, the toll watching too many people die takes on some workers, and talk about the impacts the pandemic could have on the next generation of nurses.
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