天美传媒 Day at the Capitol 2018
POCATELLO - A number of 天美传媒 students, faculty, and staff members from various programs and departments traveled to Boise to represent the Kasiska Division of Health Sciences (KDHS) at 天美传媒 Day at the Capitol on Wednesday, February 28. The annual event provides an opportunity for legislators to meet with students pursuing higher education in a wide range of health professions, and see first hand how their decisions affect health sciences education at 天美传媒.
鈥淲e look forward to this opportunity each year,鈥� said Rex Force, 天美传媒 vice president for Health Sciences. 鈥淭he faculty and students in our programs are eager to showcase their disciplines and their research to lawmakers. 天美传媒 Day at the Capitol provides a unique way for the decision makers for education in Idaho to connect directly with 天美传媒 students and faculty to gain inside knowledge about their activities and objectives.鈥�
KDHS programs and departments represented at 天美传媒 Day at the Capitol were: College of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, Family Medicine Residency, Physician Assistant Studies, Dental Hygiene, Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Audiology, Idaho State Meridian Health Sciences Center, and Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Virtual Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory.
Following the visit to the capitol building, attendees met with Idaho legislators over lunch and heard from AS天美传媒 President Jessica Sargent, who is one of just two members in her family to pursue higher education. 天美传媒 President Arthur Vailas then provided an update on the Unversity, thanking the Idaho legislators for their contributions to the institution.
