The health care network, which has multiple facilities in the Chicago area, is offering the cash bonus as an incentive to persuade staff members to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
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DENVER, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In an exciting move aligned with its focus on innovative desserts, unparalleled customer service and strategic business growth, Steven Charles - A Dessert Company announced today it has filled two key leadership roles, including one appointment to the executive team.
Todd Bass has joined Steven Charles as Executive Vice President of Sales, overseeing the entire sales organization and focused on the company s growth strategy and brand performance. Todd is an energetic leader with more than 25 years of experience delivering successful business development and superior customer service across multiple channels of foodservice and retail sectors. Most recently, he served as Director of Business Development for the West Division of PepsiCo Foodservice and before that, Director of Pepsi Equipment Services for the Mountain Region. Todd holds a Bachelor of Arts in Management from Saint John s University and serves
January 19, 2021
A political science professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign warns about a new “intellectual plague” that could take over universities.
“The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories,” Robert Weissberg (
right) wrote in an essay for
Minding the Campus. He said the next disease to worry about is the proliferation of programs in “hate studies.”
“This incipient plague embraces the very essence of totalitarianism the criminalization of thinking,” Weissberg said. “Out with criminal behavior, in with thoughtcrime.”
The professor mentions Bard College as one supporter of hate studies. It has a fall 2020 “Hate Studies Initiative.”
AP
When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced last summer it planned to bring its entire campus back in the fall by using an unproven test its own researchers developed, it was seen as a big gamble.
But after a semester during which the school saw its positivity rate plunge below 1%, with no major outbreaks, hospitalizations or deaths, the university’s testing protocol has become a model. And despite a spike in cases nationwide, the self-developed test is helping UIUC feel confident there won’t be a huge spike in cases when students start arriving for spring semester this week.