West Virginia PT Students: This Education Agreement Could Benefit You
Davis & Elkins College and Marshall University have entered a collaboration that will benefit students pursuing graduate study in physical therapy. The agreement offers two D&E graduates, who meet specific criteria, acceptance into the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Marshall University School of Physical Therapy.
While an increasing number of Davis & Elkins students show an interest in entering the field, Professor of Sport Science Dr. Mary Ann DeLuca and Assistant Professor of Sport Science Dr. Jennifer Riggleman worked with leaders at Marshall University College of Health Professions to reach the agreement.
Apr 19, 2021
Submitted photo Davis & Elkins College senior Lucas Sosa, right, and Lisa Bennett, a former staff nurse at Upshur-Buckhannon Health Department, work a drive-through COVID testing station.
ELKINS Davis & Elkins College senior Lucas Sosa was looking to complete a 240-hour internship required to complete his six-hour practicum and earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Corporate Health. What he gained was the realization that he could truly fulfill his vocation in life.
A resident of Bluffton, South Carolina, Sosa worked with the Upshur-Buckhannon Health Department through the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although duties for the unpaid position varied from assisting with property inspections to directing traffic for drive-through testing clinics and checking in on quarantined residents to making phone calls for contact tracing he learned a lot about public service and about himself.
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Jean Minnick has been a force for change in the lives of young women at Davis & Elkins College and other female collegiate athletes across West Virginia.
Title IX was passed in 1972 just two years after Jean earned her PhD in physical education at New York University. Dr. Minnick knew she needed to help change happen for athletic girls, and it would not be easy in a small town private college. Nevertheless, she made it happen with persistence, patience and pizazz.
She was a well-educated woman in a man’s world where she was not getting equal pay for equal work. She earned her way up in the institutional hierarchy where men were usually the department chairs, and most people thought girls should be cheerleaders not athletes with good scholarships.