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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
WKU has been selected to receive an IDEAS (Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students) grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Capacity Building Program for U.S. Study Abroad.
WKU is one of 26 colleges and universities from across the United States, selected from 132 applicants, to create, expand, and/or diversify American student mobility overseas in support of U.S. foreign policy goals. This U.S. Government program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and supported in its implementation by World Learning.
WKU’s project,
Counties to Countries: Building Study Abroad Capacity for Rural Americans (C2C), is designed to rethink study abroad from the perspective of students from small, rural communities. (
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President Biden to Announce Goal to Administer at Least One Vaccine Shot to 70% of U.S. Adult Population by
The White House
New Efforts Will Increase Walk-In Appointments, Pop-Up Clinics, and Mobile Units to Make Vaccines More Readily Available to Every Person in the U.S.
Additional Funding Going to States and Rural Communities to Support Vaccine Education and On-the-Ground Outreach Efforts
As we continue our path out of the COVID-19 pandemic, today, President Biden will announce a goal for 70% of the U.S. adult population to have one vaccine shot and 160 million U.S. adults to be fully vaccinated by July 4
New Efforts Will Increase Walk-In Appointments, Pop-Up Clinics, and Mobile Units to Make Vaccines More Readily Available to Every Person in the U.S.
Additional Funding Going to States and Rural Communities to Support Vaccine Education and On-the-Ground Outreach Efforts
As we continue our path out of the COVID-19 pandemic, today, President Biden will announce a goal for 70% of the U.S. adult population to have one vaccine shot and 160 million U.S. adults to be fully vaccinated by July 4
th so that life can start to look closer to normal.
In the next phase of the vaccination campaign, the Administration will make getting vaccinated more accessible than ever before, continuing to increase people’s confidence in the vaccines and ensuring that everyone is reached in the response. Today, the President will announce that he is directing tens of thousands of pharmacies in the federal pharmacy program to offer walk-in appointments; redirecting Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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A medical worker draws COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination event at Washington National Cathedral on March 16, 2021 in Washington, D.C. The Washington National Cathedral hosted the public vaccination event to help demonstrate trust by faith leaders of all denominations in the COVID-19 vaccines and encourage vaccine-hesitant Americans (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Almost half of the 41 million white evangelical Christians in the U.S. say they won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a February poll by the Pew Research Center. Rural Americans are also less likely to get the vaccine.
So trusted members of local communities are playing a key role in helping people overcome vaccine hesitancy.