Parents there are 2 important health-related forms that should be completed by your student before they leave home for college. These forms are described below:
1. First, you and your college-bound student should complete an Advance Health Care Directive (or Health Care Proxy) if your student is 18 years of age or older. An Advance Health Care Directive is a medical power of attorney that allows the person appointed by the student (presumably the parents) to be their health care agent. The appointed agent is authorized to make medical decisions on the student’s behalf if the student is severely injured or rendered unconscious.
If your child is hospitalized while away at college and is unable to make his/her own medical decisions, the hospital medical staff will not share any information over the telephone about your childs condition because of your childs right to privacy as an adult. With a signed and notarized Advance Health Care Directive, parents can fax the form to the hospital and doctors will inform you of the nature of the injury or illness. Read more…
As midsummer day approaches, the ‘Arab Spring’ of democratic revolts of varying degrees is still in full bloom, and shows all the signs of becoming an Arab Summer, Autumn and Winter.
How did (and do) we report it?
- Were we too optimistic and not nuanced enough, especially on television?
- Are some of them really ‘Twitter/Facebook’ revolutions? Did Twitter cause the revolution; was it an accelerant or just a sideshow?
A joint BBC College of Journalism/Coventry Conversations/Lincoln Journalism event will discuss these questions, looking at the reporting of the ‘Arab Spring’ from 360 degrees.
Those who were and are on the frontline will give testimony – like Alex Thomson and Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News and Jon Leyne and Nick Springate of BBC News, plus Mohamed Yehia of BBC Arabic online, fresh off a plane from Egypt.
From the start of this series of BBC College of Journalism/Coventry Conversations conferences two years ago, we have combined practitioners with academics. Kevin
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After four performances at the National High School Finals Rodeo, Utah County cowboys and cowgirls are faring well, including helping the Utah state team to lead the rankings above Oklahoma.
Lehi’s Shaylee Thacker leads pole bending with a time of 20.22 seconds. Thacker is also tied for 6th place in the All-Around Cowgirl competition with 200 points. Lehi Rodeo Club teammate Brinkley Phillips is 48th overall with a time of 21.651.
Danielle Pace of the Lehi Rodeo Club is ranked 4th overall in girls cutting with a total score of 217. Her brother, Dustin, is tied in 13th with 209 points.
Lehi Rodeo Club’s Travis Thacker is 18th overall in tie-down roping with a time of 12.79 seconds. And Dallin Kemp of the South Utah County Rodeo Club is 49th with a time of 25.65. Chase Wilson of Wasatch Rodeo Club is 34th in bareback with a score of 44.
There is only so much a peer-reviewed paper, a film or a lecture can provide. For
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A calf owned by organic dairy farmer Hans Wolfisberg pines for attention.
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John Steensma stands in his farm’s milking parlor while explaining the twice-a-day milking process to students.
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UW junior Melissa MacKelvie has her finger suckled by a calf while at Steensma’s farm.
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Organic Valley Farmer Hans Wolfisberg’s cattle return to pasture after being milked.
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The Steensma’s cattle stand and eat inside the farm’s covered barn. Because of a late spring, the cows have not been able to graze in the pasture as usual.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive thinks change is in the air for the NCAA – and to him that’s a good thing.
Slive says he and other college and league administrators “feel like change is important,” including having investigations “handled in a timely way.” Slive spoke to The Associated Press ahead of SEC media days starting Wednesday, with NCAA investigations dominating the news from college athletics.
In the SEC, Tennessee is awaiting a ruling after a 22-month investigation into the football and men’s basketball programs, while the NCAA is still investigating the recruitment of Heisman Trophy-winning Auburn quarterback Cam Newton. Auburn has not received an official letter of inquiry.
The SEC head supports a proposal that would allow universities to pay student athletes the full cost of an education.
