Dixie State University’s Women’s Resource Center has never had any full-time staff members until now. DSU hired Dru Bottoms to be the new director of the WRC, a center designed to help women, non-traditional students and families. The WRC provides many services for students on campus from mothers’ rooms, to support groups and private scholarship […]
Dixie State University’s nursing fair provides students the opportunity to meet with future medical field employers. The event is Feb. 18 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Taylor Health Science Building. The event is hosted by the Career Center and gives students the chance to explore career options. At the fair there will […]
Dixie State University is celebrating Black History Month by hosting two events each week in February. The events are put together by the Multicultural & Inclusion Center, Black Student Union and/or the Multicultural & Inclusion Student Association. Kimberly Querales, MISA president, said they planned the events to celebrate Black excellence amongst DSU students. DSU’s MISA […]
Utah COVID-19 cases are at an all time high. The intensive care units are full. The schools are going remote. It’s time to declare Utah in a state of emergency. A state of emergency can be declared upon the state of Utah. But, only if Governor Cox finds a disaster has occurred, if a threat […]
As of Wednesday Dec. 12 Utah breaks records by obtaining over 10,000 daily COVID-19 cases. With cases rising, testing sites are hit with high demands, even causing a St. George test site to close down. As of Jan. 18 Utah has a total of 790,375 reported COVID-19 cases and 3,979 reported deaths from COVID-19. This […]
As COVID-19 cases rise in Utah, Dixie State University has revised its COVID-19 guidelines to fit CDC recommendations. While other universities in Utah have decided to require the COVID-19 vaccine, DSU has chosen to not require the vaccine. However, DSU has chosen to be compliant with Utah’s COVID-19 regulations by minimizing the isolation period from […]
Dixie State University’s Booth Wellness Center is adding more staff because of the rise in anxiety, depression and substance abuse issues amongst college students. The BWC hired a part-time psychiatric nurse, Janel Hillstrom, just a few months before school started. “More and more we are finding students coming to school having previous psychiatric care [and] […]
While COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Utah, only 54% of Utahns remain fully vaccinated.
St. George locals stood outside St. George Regional Hospital Nov. 20 to protest the new OSHA vaccine mandate for large companies.
