Test site details
Once on site, those being tested will need to wear a mask and stay in their cars.
For those ages 13 and older, the site will use a self-administered nasal swab test that will allow those being tested to swab their own nose on site while in their vehicles. Those being tested will drop the sealed sample into a container on their way out of the drive-thru site.
Parents will administer tests to their children ages 12 and younger.
While awaiting results, individuals who have been tested should follow CDC guidelines and take steps to help prevent the virus from spreading to people in their home and community.
Bill, ’77, and Mary Anne, ’77, Waldrip, of San Antonio, Texas, have established the University of Louisiana System Foundation and Linda Woodard Hensley and Dorothy Woodard Patterson Endowed Professorship in STEM Education in Louisiana Tech University’s College of Education through gifts from the Waldrip Family Foundation and the University of Louisiana System Foundation.
Bill and Maryanne Waldrip
Funds will enhance the College of Education’s already strong STEM education programming, which currently resides in UTeachTech, the University’s pathway to train STEM majors to teach secondary math and science.
”It is our hope that future Tech students will receive the benefits of the educational background that Mary Anne and I have enjoyed from our experiences and studies there,” said Bill. “We are hopeful that the combination of engineering, scientific, and educational learning will mold future generations of Tech students to further explore new methods of learning that
Rural, public colleges in Louisiana are dealing with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by freezing salaries and vacant positions, while bracing for the potentiality of more funding cuts in the new fiscal year, a national report found.
Across the country, colleges and universities have cut at least a tenth of the labor force they had before the start of the pandemic, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
That hasn t been the case in Louisiana higher education yet.
The four Louisiana schools included in the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges report have not instituted layoffs, plugging holes by not filling vacancies or giving faculty standard-of-living pay increases. But leaders say such efforts are not sustainable long-term.