24 GCIT high school seniors receive college associate degrees
Updated May 11, 2021;
Through the ongoing partnership between Rowan College of South Jersey and the Gloucester County Institute of Technology, 24 high school students have earned their associate degrees during their senior year.
GCIT students begin earning college credits as early as their sophomore year through the dual credit option and they begin to earn college credit for coursework completed while in high school. Students then take advantage of the High School Option Program. In total, GCIT students completed 7,504 credits for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Among the standouts, Arshtegh Pannun will receive dual degrees and Krisha Darji was accepted into Rowan University’s 7-year (3+4) accelerated degree program in Medicine.
Small innovations help community college students | Opinion
Posted May 10, 2021
I’m always impressed by innovation. By innovation, I don’t always mean the type of technological innovation that we see with devices and platforms, but relatively small changes in programs and bureaucracies that lead to greater opportunities for people to succeed.
The Cumberland County campus of Rowan College of South Jersey has gotten creative with payment plans. I’m also thinking about approaches taken by Valencia College in Orlando, Florida.
It is fair to ask what a community college in Florida has to do with one in South Jersey. The answer is, probably not much, but the problems they face are fairly common and well known, so that new solutions implemented at one community college might be worth a try at another. At least that was my reaction after listening to a story on NPR radio’s “Morning Edition” by Elissa Nadworny on how Valencia College was handling the gut punch known as COVID-
N.J. offers COVID vaccines without an appointment. Here’s how to get a shot.
Posted May 07, 4:09 PM
Michael Glenn, a paramedic with ParaDocs, injects Tory Aunspach, owner of restaurants Hooked JC and Cafe Alyce, with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine inside the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management s Community Resource Unit.
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New Jersey residents looking for a coronavirus vaccine can likely find an opportunity to do so without traveling too far and may not even need to make an appointment, as vaccine availability increases and the number of people seeking shots decreases.
Vaccine sites that have started accepting walk-in appointments include the 324 CVS locations and 68 Walmart and Sam’s Club locations across the state, both of which began taking walk-ins earlier this week. All six of New Jersey’s coronavirus vaccine mega-sites are also offering walk-in appointments.
New medical center means more health care choices in South Jersey
Julie Evans,
for Rowan Medicine
When it comes to health care, the more choices the better. Some of the best are now available locally with the opening of Rowan Medicine in Sewell.
“Rowan Medicine has been serving the South Jersey area for more than 30 years, and we’re thrilled to expand our services to Sewell and the surrounding area,” says Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, Dean of the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. “We have an exceptional staff who are ready to offer state-of-the-art services to meet a wide variety of health care needs for area residents. All of our physicians are also faculty members of our medical school.”