Have questions about COVID-19 and vaccinations? Biology professor Steven Clark created an informative video lecture on the virus, vaccines, and immunity. Watch until the end to catch a question-and-answer session conducted with Clark College employees who attended Professor Clark’s Zoom seminar. EmailFacebookTwitterGoogleStumbleuponRedditTumblrPinterestLinkedinDiggit
UPDATE: This event was canceled due to low enrollment. Clark College, WPEA and CCAHE are holding a vaccination clinic on Wednesday, September 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Clark College in the STEM Building. Sign up for an appointment here. Rite Aid will be providing the first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine. …
Fall term will begin with many services and classes offered at least partially on campus Clark College announced today its plans for fall term and the first phase of its return to on-site operations. Earlier today, President Karin Edwards announced the following: The college will strongly encourage students and employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19, but will not require…
Last week Clark College published its 2021 fall class schedule, which includes more than 500 classes with on-campus components. This is a major step by the college—which has been in remote operations since March 2020—to safely return to campus this fall. “This is an exciting moment for the college, as we prepare to safely welcome large numbers of students and employees…
How do you do distance learning in a place with no Internet? You go old-school. A surge in COVID-19 cases paused Clark College’s programs at Larch Corrections Center in early January. The minimum-security prison had its first positive COVID-19 test in late December. Only a week later, 218 of those incarcerated —about 70 percent of the prison’s residency—had tested positive for COVID. An…
How parent students are coping–and how Clark College helps Being a college student during the COVID-19 pandemic can be tricky enough, but it becomes exponentially more challenging when you’re also taking care of young children whose school or child care facility has been closed or moved online. About a quarter of Clark College…
“This is not the way it’s supposed to happen, but that’s all we got.” Monserrat Soriano is a full-time Clark College student on track to complete the Administrative Assistant and Management program in Spring 2021. She’s also a single mom to daughter, Melody, 7, in first grade at Martin Luther King Elementary; and son, Emmett, 4, who attends…
When COVID-19 restrictions moved learning online for all K-12 and college students in the state in March 2020, Clark’s Child and Family Studies (CFS) kept its doors open to fill a vital role of providing childcare to families of essential workers and Clark students, as well as providing jobs for Clark students. Clark 24/7 interviewed CFS Director…
Studying safely is easier when face masks are part of your basic lab gear When COVID-19 switched Clark College’s spring quarter classes from on-campus to online learning, Welding Technologies students were ahead of the curve—and therefore were not as affected as other programs with hands-on labs. Instructor John Kuhn already had pivoted to the hybrid model…
Quick work and detailed planning allow Dental Hygiene program to safely keep training students and serving the community For 51 years, Clark College’s dental hygiene clinic provided affordable dental service to the community—until the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close in spring term. Now, thanks to careful planning by the college’s dental…
