ConnectED | Spring 2020

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Rising to the challenge of

COVID-19

Spring 2020 Volume 8 Issue 2

INSIDE: > Ohio's campuses rising to the challenge of COVID-19 > BGSU Center for Regional Development creates Toledo Region Data Center > Zane State offers first-ever applied bachelor’s degree > UC colleges collaborate on 'telehealth' certificate > Aspire Career Bridges Health Care Program helps adults obtain training, jobs

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A Message from Chancellor Randy Gardner These are difficult times. Normally, we would be celebrating spring and the accomplishments that come with the end of a semester, and in some cases, a college career. Instead, we are managing remote learning and working from home; making hard choices about future events; and adapting as best as we can during a pandemic.

But this challenge has also highlighted the innovation and adaptability of Ohio’s higher education institutions. Colleges and universities, Ohio Technical Centers, and adult learning programs across the state have found ways to deliver learning remotely and to communicate with and provide resources to their students and communities. The connection between the business community and higher education has never been more important.

Our lead story in this issue shows how campuses across Ohio have stepped up to be a bright light in dark times, finding ways to use technology and creativity to supply Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health care workers. Other stories look at how a Bowling Green State University partnership brings critical data to economic development; what a first-ever applied bachelor’s degree program means for Zane State College; how the University of Cincinnati is working to fill a gap in the important and expanding field of telehealth; and how a pilot program made possible through Aspire is educating and training community members to obtain meaningful work in an in-demand field.

All of these stories share a theme that has been prevalent across the state these last several weeks – that of being “In This Together Ohio.” It is during this time that higher education and business are more ConnectED than ever.

Ohio's campuses rising to the challenge of COVID-19 Colleges and universities across Ohio are using technology and design skills to bring much needed supplies to health care workers.

BGSU Center for Regional Development creates Toledo Region Data Center Dashboard provides ‘high-level data’ to Toledo Chamber of Commerce.

Zane State offers first-ever applied bachelor’s degree For the first time in the educational institution’s 50-year history, Zane State College is offering an applied bachelor’s degree program.

UC colleges collaborate on 'telehealth' certificate Program aims to fill a gap in training professionals in this expanding and important field.

Aspire Career Bridges Health Care Program helps adults obtain training, jobs Career Bridges focuses on workforce development and community outreach.

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Ohio's campuses rising to t Using technology and innovation to meet demand for PPE In response to the COVID-10 pandemic, colleges and universities across Ohio are using technology and design skills to bring much needed supplies to health care workers on the frontlines in their communities. What follows are just a few stories highlighting how higher education institutions are committing resources, connecting with the health care industry, and meeting critical needs in these difficult times.

Lorain County Community College is 3D printing safety visor kits for local hospitals and medical facilities [LINK] Using equipment from the Patsie C. and Dolores Jeneé Campana Center for Ideation and Invention, Lorain County Community (LCCC) college is 3D printing headbands for safety visor kits that include five sheets of off-the-shelf acetate transparency material to create the replaceable shield.

The kits are being delivered to the Lorain County Office of Emergency Management Agency and Homeland Security, which is distributing them to local medical facilities in the greatest need.

LCCC has already donated hundreds of face shields, and as production ramps up, it is now producing up to 120 kits a day — and those involved are doing it all from their homes.

“We had just left campus because of the order from Governor DeWine when I got the request to fabricate some personal protective equipment,” said Kelly Zelesnik, dean of the engineering, SPRING 2020

business and information technologies division.

“So we turned around and grabbed every tabletop printer we could.”

The LCCC team has 12 printers spread across four homes running 24/7, creating mini manufacturing floors wherever they have space. They’re doing everything from sourcing and ordering materials to printing parts to packaging the kits. The LCCC Foundation’s Lifeshare Legacy Fund is providing funding for the supplies and materials.

Christopher Leon, LCCC graduate and lab instructional assistant, knew immediately he wanted to be part of the process, doing his part to prevent the spread.

“We all need to pitch in to help the fight any way we can,” Leon said. “I happen to know 3D printing and we have been fortunate enough to have the college’s leadership helping us in every way they can.”

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the challenge of COVID-19 The Point at Otterbein manufacturing PPE donations [LINK] The Point at Otterbein University is working to fill the growing need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 crisis by setting up a light manufacturing operation in the university’s Maker Space. PPEs made at The Point will be donated to EMS, fire, police, and healthcare workers.

“Otterbein has strong partnerships in central Ohio, so when The Point received requests to contribute, we pulled together a dedicated team of students and staff to produce PPEs,” said Erin Bender, executive director of The Point.

“Otterbein’s leaders are committed to serving our community and ensuring the safety of our first responders and healthcare workers, whose work is so critical especially during this global health crisis.”

Curtis Smith, Maker Space and laboratory operations manager at The Point, is working with students who answered the call to produce PPEs using the facility’s 3D printers and laser cutters.

The current emphasis is on laser-cut and 3D-printed face shields, as well as 3D-printed adapters to enable OhioHealth facilities to use ventilator screens from a distance, which will protect healthcare workers from exposure to infected patients.

“We can produce 150 face shields per day, and we are making 200 ventilator adapters for OhioHealth,” said Bender.

“We are looking for other opportunities to continue or expand our work,” she added.

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Shawnee State University students develop face shield prototypes to assist medical community [LINK] Students in the Plastics Engineering Technology program at Shawnee State University have created prototypes for face shields that could be used to protect local health care workers.

More than 10 of the prototypes are now being evaluated by medical professionals at Shawnee Family Health Center and Southern Ohio Medical Center.

limited, our equipment and the capabilities of our students are industry standard and we want to do what we can to help.”

Miller said that the project began with SSU students Nathan Dever and Adam Bilitzke in early March. After reading an article about 3D models for alternative masks to the N95 filter used in the medical community, the two began working on prototypes.

“We first produced a face mask,” said Dever, a junior political science and plastics engineering technology major from Minford, Ohio.

“We showed our first prototype to medical professionals at Southern Ohio Medical Center and they helped us test it.

Adam Miller, SSU professor and chair of the SSU Department of Engineering Technologies, said that Shawnee State is answering Governor DeWine’s call to manufacturers to assist with the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during this time. The equipment is in high demand because of the anticipated increase in cases of COVID-19 that will require treatment.

“We have the same technology in our student labs that is available in advanced manufacturing companies around the state, thanks to ongoing partnerships that we have with industry leaders,” Miller said.

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“The plastic part needed to fit properly on the face and used a filter that was also becoming difficult to obtain. We then shifted our focus to face shields that are also needed.”

With the goal to make sure his loved ones are safe, Dever said this situation was part of why he entered the field.

“This is one of the benefits of the plastics field. It takes creativity and problem-solving skills. This is the part that appeals to me. I want to help people of Scioto County. My sister is in the medical field.

I want her to be safe.”

Dever’s classmate, Adam Bilitzke, a junior from Troy, Ohio, also has family ties to the medical community.

“My mother is a nurse,” Bilitzke said. “She works in a nursing home. I have a personal interest in this project. It’s important. I can say that this is the most fulfilling project I’ve ever been involved

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with. Before coming to Shawnee State two years ago, I received my Eagle Scout award and worked as a lifeguard. Giving back to my community is important to me.”

The work that these students, and others who have now joined them on the project, have done is appreciated by the medical community, too.

“We’re hopeful about these face shields and I can’t say enough about these students and their desire to protect us,” Cyndy Bell, Nursing Coordinator at Shawnee Family Health Center and SSU nursing program graduate, said.

“We are seeing people in our primary care clinic and we make home visits. Having protective equipment is critical. We appreciate what Shawnee State University is doing to help.”

Coronavirus: Sinclair CC partnership will rapidly produce 3D-printed masks for healthcare workers

BY WHIO BREAKING NEWS STAFF [LINK] A new agreement between Sinclair Community College and drone manufacturer Altavian will provide 3D printed masks to healthcare workers.

The partnership will use state-of-the-art 3D printing capabilities at Sinclair’s National UAS Training and Certification Center lab to print mask shells and filter caps 24 hours a day before shipping the components to Altavian for final assembly and distribution.

The finished masks are equivalent to standard N95 masks and able to filter 99.9 percent of airborne particles. They are reusable with replaceable filters and can also withstand heat sterilization.

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Kent State team designs, produces PPE [LINK] Kent State University’s Design Innovation (DI) Initiative is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by prototyping and producing face shields and masks to help fill the gap experienced by medical personnel on the front lines.

J.R. Campbell, director of the DI Initiative, is coordinating a team that consists of 25 faculty, staff, and students from Kent State’s College of Public Health, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, University Libraries, Research Center for Educational Technology, as well as collaboration with the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and the College of Nursing.

The team is utilizing the 3D printing and lasercutting resources in place at Kent State to produce much-needed and increasingly scarce personal protective equipment (PPE) to donate to Kent State's first responders at the Kent State Police Department and DeWeese Health Center. The remainder will go to the Clevelandbased nonprofit MedWish International, which will distribute the supplies to Northeast Ohio’s hospital workers and first responders who are in dire need. MedWish repurposes medical supplies and equipment.

The DI network of makerspaces has the capacity to quickly react to the local and critical need for PPE. “Our current goal is to produce 2,000 face shields since we have received funding from both the

J.R. Campbell sports one of the university's face shields that will be donated to MedWish International.

United Way of Portage County and the Burton D. Morgan Foundation,” Campbell said. “We are not yet ready to say which versions/models of face masks we will be producing with which materials, but should be making those decisions soon.”

Summa Health is testing several of the masks, Campbell said. In addition, a production company will be interviewing Campbell about the efforts to produce the masks and how the team is using Microsoft Teams in this project. If the interview makes the cut, it may appear in a Microsoft commercial, he added.

YSU professors design 3D cartridges to retrofit masks

BY RON SELAK, JR., YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR [LINK] Two professors at Youngstown State University have designed a 3D printable cartridge for an N95 filter or other media that can be retrofitted to commercially available masks.

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review to be placed on the National Institutes of Health’s 3D print exchange. That’s a repository for design uploads to link the capabilities of additive manufacturers to the needs of medical workers on the frontlines fighting the novel coronavirus.

Conversations about how to help in the supply of PPE began in mid-March, but the focus at that time was in producing something like the conventional N95 mask. But then Vuksanovich, associate professor of manufacturing and engineering technology, had the idea that changed the game: What if somehow an existing, well-fitting mask could be adapted?

“There are lots of masks that are not typical medical masks that fit great. Could we do something to utilize those, make them reusable, washable… so we can make something that people can use over and over, fits comfortably,

Higher education donates PPE [LINK] Other higher education institutions have responded to Governor DeWine's call for PPE by donating to local health care providers.

Universities and their branch campuses, community colleges, and adult workforce and training centers across the state have answered the call.

The Ohio Association of Community Colleges reports that Ohio's 23 community colleges have donated more than 200,000 medical face masks and pairs of gloves to hospitals and local first responders across the state.Twenty-five much-needed medical ventilators are among the colleges’ donations.

A 3M respirator retrofitted with a filter cartridge designed by YSU professors Darrell Wallace and Brian Vuksanovich.

seals very well and holds a good filtration media?" Wallace said.

Wallace and Vuksanovich took the pitch and ran, came back and picked the best parts of both and started to evolve the cartridge. Its design allows it to be produced through 3D printing or injection molding.

“Our campuses have answered Gov. DeWine’s call to provide PPE equipment and other critically needed medical supplies to those on the frontlines,” said Jack Hershey, President and CEO of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges.

“Many of these medical workers and firstresponders have been educated on our campuses, so it is doubly gratifying that our colleges are able to support these graduates and their colleagues in this way.”

About 800 N95 masks, 1,150 breathing masks, 12,000 other masks, and 223,000 pairs of regular and sterile gloves were donated, Hershey said.

For more on how Ohio's higher education community is responding to the challenge, visit our Twitter and Facebook feeds, where we regularly share these stories.

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BGSU CENTER FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREATES TOLEDO REGION DATA CENTER Dashboard provides ‘high-level data’ to Toledo Chamber of Commerce

BY ANDREW ADDESSI [LINK] Industry, pay rates, the number of workers employed — mountains of data exist for every city in the world. Bowling Green State University’s Center for Regional Development (CRD) is looking to make all that data more accessible for businesses, organizations, and elected officials.

The CRD is devoted to finding solutions to economic and community development challenges in northwest Ohio, and the task of creating the Toledo Region Data Center was another way to support the community. Created for the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Toledo Region Data Center provides economic and workforce information for the Greater Toledo region with data being calculated for the Toledo metropolitan statistical area, which includes Lucas, Wood, and Fulton counties.

“The origin of this project was a conversation that we had with the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce,” said Dr. Russell Mills, senior director of the CRD. “They mentioned that a lot of companies come to them and they often ask for pretty high-level data on the region. We brainstormed and came up with the idea of a dashboard for the region.”

Businesses hire a site selector firm to go out and do a first cursory look at a region, determine things such as average wage, population size, and workforce numbers in certain industries. In essence, the CRD created a dashboard to provide an easy one-stop-shop for companies looking to expand or relocate to the region.

It’s also a great way for BGSU students to support the local economy.

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“This project, other than the initial connection and identifying their needs, was mostly done by our graduate students,” Mills said.

To get a better idea of how to go about creating the data dashboard, the CRD researched other areas that had a working dashboard in place from all around the country. BGSU students, many of them from the applied statistics program, worked on the different iterations that were presented to the Chamber.

“We had to have somebody collect the data and determine what data to present,” said Deminique Heiks, economic development program coordinator for the CRD. “We had graduate students assisting and tweaking the dashboard and we update it and determine if there are additional data sets that people are interested in and add that data. It’s a continuous process.”

Local businesses and bigger companies cycle through every area, and Bowling Green is no

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exception, making the information fluid. The Toledo Region Data Center is composed of data from a number of sources, including the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“A lot of organizations tend to use people from out of the state or out of the region,” Mills said.

“Our goal is to give people a sense of the capabilities that the CRD has within the region.”

The project was supported by funding from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s University Center Economic Development Program and the State of Ohio Rural University Program.

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ZANE STATE OFFERS FIRST-EVER

APPLIED BACHELOR’S DEGREE

BY CHRISTINE HOLMES, Y-CITY NEWS [LINK]

For the first time in the educational institution’s 50-year history, Zane State College is offering an applied bachelor’s degree program.

Students currently studying electrical engineering technology or those in the field with a qualified associate degree can now transition into a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering Technology (BSET).

“They’ll be able to finish this (applied) bachelor’s degree in two years or less,” said Zane State President Chad Brown. “We also offer the (applied) bachelor’s degree courses at our same tuition rate.”

The program is the direct result of market demand for workers trained to problem solve in a technologically advanced electrical field.

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given the smart grid technology,” said Brown.

Before the major could be offered to students, Zane State College had to present its case before the Ohio Department of Higher Education in order to establish the need for such a program.

During that hearing, several industry representatives testified on behalf of the proposed program, with 20 additional letters of support submitted, penned by various energyrelated companies.

More than 40 applications were submitted and just nine were approved between seven higher education institutions.

In addition to testimony on behalf of proposed programs, competitors opposing applications had the opportunity to explain why the need was already met through existing programs.

“Actually, we were the only proposal that the university system didn’t have some kind of comments about. All the other ones, they gave testimony why they shouldn’t be allowed to do it or why they’re already meeting the need,” said Brown. “Everybody agreed this is a need

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that’s not being met.

Ultimately, this is truly a first-of-its-kind program not only in the state of Ohio, but in the United States.”

Brown described the program as a hybrid that marries the management of electric transmission with communication systems.

“It’s really a skill set that crosses multiple industries, so we’re really excited to be offering it,” said Brown.

Those who graduate from the BSET program will be eligible for the following careers: • Protection and control technologist • Station electrician • Meter electrician • Protection and control technician • Generation dispatcher • Transmission dispatcher • Distribution dispatcher • Scheduler • Construction manager • Telecommunications technician • SCADA technician • Transmission and distribution planner service representative • Principal designer • Instrument and control technician The program is led by Jim Davis, who helped design the courses and has been a professor at Zane State for 35 years. New to the faculty is Colleen Konsavage, a former AEP employee with a master’s degree in nuclear engineering.

Brown said if the college doesn’t do everything

it can to help a student be successful, then it has done a disservice to that person.

“So whether it’s the graduation rate, whether it’s this four-year (applied) baccalaureate degree, we want to be, at Zane State College, a contributor to the community, a catalyst for economic development, and ultimately that comes by students first,” said Brown. “We can never forget who our customers are and what we’re trying to achieve.”

To Brown, selling education comes with more responsibility than the typical business selling a product.

“We’re selling them an opportunity to transform themselves and change their lives,” said Brown.

“And because it’s an expensive prospect, and because there’s debt that most of them take on, there’s significant risk with that, and I think we have a different level of obligation than if we were just selling them a car or selling them some other product.”

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UC colleges collaborate on 'telehealt Program aims to fill a gap in training professionals in this expanding and important field

BY BILL BANGERT [LINK] Published research around the United States indicates a gap in training and readiness of professionals in the emerging field of “telehealth,” or the distribution of health-related services and information via telecommunication. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions.

The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and College of Nursing are collaborating on a graduate telehealth certificate program that will be one of the first interprofessional, academic-based certificate programs in the nation. It is designed to prepare a highly educated cohort with the tools and educational experience to further advance individual careers while also filling a void in American health care.

“If a person has gone through a training program and has that knowledge, now they are a little farther along the line of being able to be better prepared,” said Charles Doarn, research professor and a program director in the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the UC College of Medicine. Doarn co-founded the program with Debi Sampsel, director of telehealth for the College of Nursing.

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The curriculum will consist of four, three-credithour online courses, beginning with the 2020 fall semester. The two courses to be led by Doarn in the College of Medicine are “Introduction to Telehealth” and “Business and Operational Considerations of Telehealth.” The two courses led by Sampsel in the College of Nursing are “Telehealth Innovation and Delivery Models” and “Clinical Application in Telehealth.” In addition, individual courses will be available for graduate students to take as electives.

Each course is evidencebased and follows a natural progression.

“This certificate program is a cutting-edge endeavor for health care providers, multidisciplinary team members, and business associates seeking to expand their telehealth expertise and hands-on experiences,” Sampsel said. “The time is now to obtain the certificate as telehealth will continue to improve health care access, increase the reach to underserved areas, and advance the integration of technology into consumer choice health care delivery.”

The program is just one prime example of the university’s commitment to innovation, one of the pillars of UC’s strategic direction, Next Lives Here.

Doarn says the certificate program will teach and reinforce concepts of telehealth to a wide variety of individuals, including physicians, residents, nurses, allied health professionals, information technology specialists, administrators, and business associates on a wide range of topics. The certificate program will provide a solid foundation

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th' certificate and will prepare participants for new challenges facing health care.

Admission criteria will include a baccalaureate from an accredited university or college with a graduating GPA of 3.0 or higher.

One letter of recommendation from a previous teacher or a professional will be required, as well as a resume and a short goal statement.

“The university’s role, in my mind, is to educate the next generation of people, whether they’re chemists, poets, musicians, physicians, lawyers, pharmacists, whatever they might be,” Doarn said. “To be an integral part of the public health of the community, we want to integrate tools and technologies developed and taught online by recognized scholars and leaders in the field of telehealth.”

Top: Charles Doarn, Darlene Anderson and Debi Sampsel with a V-Go telehealth robot.

Left: Charles Doarn and Debi Sampsel with a V-Go telehealth robot (pictured above).

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Aspire Career Bridges Health helps adults obtain training, jo

BY TONY MEALE [LINK]

Her life had spiraled out of control.

Shania Hensley, due to circumstances beyond her control, found herself homeless at 15. She fell in with the wrong crowd, dropped out of high school, struggled with addiction, and ultimately ended up in jail.

Hensley, however, overcame her addiction and turned her life around—and the Career Bridges Health Care program played a role in that.

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“Career Bridges is such a wonderful program,” said Hensley, 21, who is training to be a nursing assistant. “I never thought that I would be able

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Care Program obs to get a job I've always wanted with being a high school dropout and for having a past.”

these women have broken down barriers and overcome challenges to be in the program.”

Aspire, which is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), provides free services for individuals who need assistance acquiring skills to be successful in post-secondary education, training, and employment. Ohioans 18 and older with less than a 12th grade education are eligible to participate.

I never thought that I would be able to get a job I've always wanted with being a high school dropout and for having a past.”

Hensley, along with Melanie Saltzman and Megan McQuade, graduated from Career Bridges Health Care on March 6. This pilot program, made possible through Aspire, had two goals: one, to educate and train community members to obtain meaningful work, and two, to help area healthcare facilities recruit and retain a skilled workforce.

“As their primary instructor, it has been an honor working with such motivated and dedicated students,” said Dr. Carrie Ann Verge. “Each of

“This is such an important program, and we are thrilled to work with the Ohio Department of Higher Education in this capacity,” said Dr. Julie Francis, Stevens Literacy Center director.

“Much of our focus has been on enhancing P-12 learning, but we’ve really pushed the boundaries beyond that. We want to improve and expand adult basic education by creating pathways that lead to careers and advanced education, and this is a wonderful opportunity to do that.”

Hensley, Saltzman, and McQuade completed nearly 100 hours of instruction time over five weeks, including 20 hours of job-shadowing at Hocking Valley Community Hospital, and received certificates in CPR First Aid and Customer Service. They also completed several specialized workshops, such as working with survivors of domestic violence, trauma-informed care, and working with aging populations.

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“Carrie Ann and [Aspire Grant Program Manager] Ginger Gagne have been so uplifting and encouraging towards me,” said Hensley, who lives in Crooksville, Ohio. “They believed in me, so I worked even harder to prove to myself it was possible.”

All three participants will complete a State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) program at Tri County Career Center in Nelsonville, Ohio.

Upon passing their state tests, they could procure employment at Hocking Valley Community Hospital, which has asked participants to return to be interviewed for open positions. This would allow each participant to receive health insurance and educational benefits to pay for advanced schooling.

“I am now living in my own house and about to start a STNA job. My family is so proud of all the work I've done,” said Hensley. “I just want to thank everybody for being so supportive and showing they care. I recommend Career Bridges to everybody who asks me about it.”

"I am now living in my own house and about to start a STNA job. My family is so proud of all the work I've done.”

Career Bridges focuses on workforce development and community outreach, which are key components of OHIO’s Fearlessly First Strategic Framework. In seeking to reimagine higher education, OHIO is focused on advancing

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and realizing four themes: Access and Inclusion, Student Success and Transformation, Research and Knowledge Discovery in Support of Vibrant Communities, and Sustainable Academic Enterprise. As alternatives to four-year degrees continue to be promoted, OHIO is committed to exploring workforce development and credentials as a pipeline for degreecompletion and lifelong learning.

“Although the pilot has been small, it has been successful beyond all of my initial expectations for the program,” said Verge, who designed course curriculum. “I believe going forward we can use what we learned to mitigate some of the early challenges we faced and build an even better and more cohesive program for future students and employers.”

Verge will teach the second installment of the Career Bridges Health Care program, which begins May 1 at OhioHealth O’Bleness in Athens. Similar Career Bridges programs in manufacturing are also starting later this spring at Athens Mold and Machine.

“When educational institutions, training providers, social services, businesses, and community stakeholders come together to support these free programs,” said Francis, “we create a positive synergy, and everyone in our region benefits.”

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A special thank you to all of those who contributed stories and articles: Ohio's campuses rising to the challenge of COVID-19 Steve Sefchik Jennifer Hill Manager of Communications, Lorain County Community College

Director of Marketing & Communications Otterbein University

Eric Andrew Braun Eric Mansfield VP for Advancement & Institutional Relations

Shawnee State University

Executive Director, University Media Relations Kent State University

Ron Selak Jr. Tom Walsh Business Editor Vice President Tribune Chronicle Ohio Association of Community Colleges

BGSU Center for Regional Development creates Toledo Region Data Center Sarah Bednarski Director of Communications Bowling Green State University

Zane State offers first-ever applied bachelor’s degree Christine Holmes News Director Y-City News

UC colleges collaborate on 'telehealth' certificate Bill Bangert Public Information Officer, Academic Health Center University of Cincinnati

Aspire Career Bridges Health Care Program helps adults obtain training, jobs Jalyn Bolyard Media Relations Coordinator, University Communications and Marketing Ohio University

Thanks for reading ConnectED. If you have any story suggestions, links to articles of interest, or news releases to share, feel free to send them to Jeff Robinson at jrobinson@highered.ohio.gov.