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Imagine trying to compose a 50,000-word novel on deadline. Pecking away on a keyboard for hours on end, while competing with 17 other students in a cramped classroom for power outlets and a few comfortable chairs. Obviously not the ideal conditions for concentration and creativity.
However, for every trial is a resolution. Providing an educational sanctuary for aspiring writers has motivated University of Wisconsin-Green Bay English Prof. Rebecca Meacham to improve the badly outdated Theatre Hall 378 classroom (referred to above). Meacham and a number of her students, have been working tirelessly this summer to organize an effort to revamp their classroom.
“As a student, I enjoyed classes in traditional, stately seminar rooms, centered around mahogany seminar tables, surrounded by bookshelves filled with the works I admired,” said Meacham, a published author. “Because these spaces were lovely, cared for, and steeped in importance, they made us, as emerging writers, feel that what we were doing was important — that we were having valuable conversations about art, audience, craft and aesthetics. A room remodel does more than add comfort; the right setting enhances a student’s sense of community, self-worth, engagement and culture.”
Undeterred by the fact that her budget couldn’t support a remodel, she approached the Office of Advancement and the Dean of the Colleges of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanistic Studies, who helped to create a fundraising plan. An initial effort raised $3,000 for some of the necessities of the classroom, including a seminar-style table with outlets for laptops. Thrilled by the generosity from campus and community, the organizers are halfway to their $6,000 goal.
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But they have an urgent need: chairs. Classes begin in two weeks, and students will be sitting in decades-old, hard metal chairs.
To that end they are now asking friends and donors to simply consider “giving a kid a chair.” They have now incentivized donations to include “named chairs” for those who donate $500.
Secure giving to this project is available through the UW-Green Bay Foundation. There is more about the campaign on a “revise the room” facebook page including the number of students who will continue to have “sore butts” if not enough funds are raised in the effort.
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Meacham and company are searching for those who are passionate about maximizing the potential of future writers at UW‑Green Bay. They are looking for those who want to provide an educational sanctuary.
— Feature written by UWGB Communication Intern Kelsie Vieaux. Photos submitted.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — With the process of administering COVID-19 vaccines moving slower than hoped, state officials issued revised guidelines to local health departments Thursday, authorizing them to give shots to lower-priority groups if demand wanes among people in higher-priority categories, or if doses are about to expire.
Distribution of vaccines is following a set of priority 'phases' and 'tiers' outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local officials, with health care workers at the top of the priority list in what is known as Phase 1A. There are three 'tiers' within that phase, covering various categories of medical workers and frontline responders.
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- State officials have authorized health departments to give coronavirus vaccinations to lower-priority groups if demand wanes among people in higher-priority categories, or if doses are about to expire
- Health care workers are at the top of the priority list in what is known as Phase 1A
- L.A. County is in the midst of the second tier of Phase 1A
- The revised guidance from the California Department of Public Health was issued in hopes of 'accelerating the pace of COVID-19 administration'
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Los Angeles County, for example, is in the midst of the second tier of Phase 1A.
The revised guidance from the California Department of Public Health was issued in hopes of 'accelerating the pace of COVID-19 administration.' Gov. Gavin Newsom noted earlier this week that only about one-third of the vaccine doses received by the state had actually been administered.
California COVID-19, By The Numbers:
🔹 Confirmed cases to date: 2,518,611
🔹 Note: Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed
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The guidance clears health departments to immediately expand distribution of the vaccine to people in all three tiers of the initial phase. The move immediately makes the vaccine available to health care workers in areas such as optometry clinics, dental facilities, occupational health, pharmacies, school health centers, and specialty clinics.
Health departments were also advised to factor into their vaccination efforts the likelihood that some people in the higher-priority groups will decline to receive the shots. Once agencies have completed efforts to offer the vaccine to everyone in Phase 1A, they can then move to Phase 1B.
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County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said this week that she anticipated it would take until the end of the month to complete distribution to everyone in Phase 1A. Distribution would then move to Phase 1B, beginning with everyone aged 75 and older and workers considered at high risk of exposure, such as workers in education, food, agriculture, childcare, and emergency services.
Ferrer said that as of Monday, the county had received more than 185,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and more than 100,000 had been administered. The county has also received 166,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine, but only 31,915 doses had been administered. She said there was a lag in reporting of the vaccination data, so the rates were likely higher.
Health care workers in the county can register for vaccination appointments here.