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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Expands Mental Health First Aid Training with Grant
Â鶹ÊÓƵ receives a $375,000 grant to expand mental health training for faculty, staff and a select group of students. The grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has a goal to reach most of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s full time faculty and staff. So far, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has already trained 150 faculty and staff in Mental Health First Aid and plans to train an additional 630 faculty, staff and select students over a three-year period.
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Toby Decker
Like all good teachers, Toby Decker is changing the world one student at a time. By the time you read this, he’ll be teaching English at an international high school in Abu Dhabi, which came after a...
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Announces Campaign for Completion
Â鶹ÊÓƵ kicked off the public phase of Clearing the Pathway: The Campaign for Completion, the largest fundraising campaign in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s history. The Campaign will raise $20 million in private funds to support student scholarships, academic advisors, Student Success Centers, science lab renovations and diversity and inclusion outreach.
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Joins Forces with Five Other Higher Ed Institutions to Help Students
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, along with regional partners Langston University, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, and The University of Tulsa have joined forces for the Tulsa Transfer Project.
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Chris Clevenger: 2018 History Grad
Chris has his head stuck in the past, but his eye on a future in teaching at the collegiate level. A history enthusiast, he believes we must understand the past to navigate the present. “I feel it’s...
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Field of Study
History
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Becca McLaughlin: 2019 Pre-Nursing Grad
A member of the Student Government Association, Becca’s making the most of her time at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Becca chose nursing for her career because she loves meeting and helping people. She describes herself as...
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Pre-Nursing
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David Page is Named the 2018 Vision Honoree
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Foundation has named David Page as the 2018 Vision in Education Leadership Award recipient. He is being honored for his enduring commitment to excellence in education and leadership of key initiatives and organizations that have impacted economic development, quality of life and social services for Tulsa.
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Rachel Farnan: Biology Grad, Fall 2018
Rachel currently serves as president of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Student Government Association, and is also a True Blue Leader. After graduation from Â鶹ÊÓƵ, she plans to attend NSU Broken Arrow to pursue her bachelor’s...
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Biology
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Â鶹ÊÓƵ Earns Tree Campus USA Second Year in a Row
For the second year in a row, all four Â鶹ÊÓƵ campuses earned the 2017 Tree Campus USA® designation by the Arbor Day Foundation. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is proud to be the only multi-campus community college member of the Tree Campus USA® family where each campus achieved this status.
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Christy Eslinger
Name: Christy Eslinger Hometown: Tulsa Major: Biotechnology Expected Date of Graduation: May 2018 Why did you choose your major? This is a funny story. I was in the RN program, or least that was the...
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Biology