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New Health-Care Programs at Northeast
Northeast Alabama Community College continues to expand its
programs in health-related fields through a partnership with
Wallace State Community College at Hanceville. The colleges are
adding programs in Respiratory Therapy and Physical Therapy,
pending final approval from the Alabama State Board of
Education.
Programs in Radiology and Pharmacy
Technology already are offered through this partnership.
“With the opening of our Teleconference
Center in our new Technology and Health Education Building, we
are now able to provide more programs through distance
education,” stated Dr. David Campbell, NACC President. “Through
our arrangement with Wallace State Hanceville, students may now
take their academic courses at Northeast and then through
teleconferencing and on-campus lectures complete their
requirements for these degrees.”
Northeast and Wallace State Hanceville
plan to jointly open a laboratory for the Respiratory Therapy
program in the fall. Students in Respiratory Therapy, and the
other health-related programs in the partnership, will be able
to do their clinical requirements for their degrees locally.
“One of the key reasons for our being able
to establish these partnerships with Wallace State Hanceville is
the high level of technology that we have at Northeast,” stated
Dr. Joe Burke, NACC Vice President/Dean of Instruction. “Our
Teleconference Center is state-of-the-art and thanks to Farmers
Telecommunications and the Alabama SuperComputer Authority, we
have very strong distance learning transmission signals.”
Senator Lowell Barron also assisted the college through funding
for the Teleconference Center.
Campbell noted that these health-related
programs have been very popular through the years. Until now,
however, students did not have them available locally. “We
recognize that health-care needs are in great demand now and in
the coming years. We of course had these needs in mind when we
built our Technology and Health Education Building. These
partnership programs with Wallace State Hanceville are another
way that we can provide the health care training needs for
people in our service area.”
For additional information about the
programs, contact Dr. Joe Burke
burkej@nacc.edu or phone ext 240, or Mike Kennamer at
kennamerm@nacc.edu or
phone ext 254.
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