Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Photo by Alissa Cordner: Dr. Paul McLain, medical director at SOS Health Services, discusses his work with a sociology class.

 

During Fall semester, several faculty and staff members are working with students and community partners on many thoughtful and exciting collaborative projects, which are administered by Whitman's Community-Engaged Learning and Research Initiative (CELRI). This week's feature relates to local health and social disparities. 

 

Associate Professor and Garrett Fellow Alissa Cordner’s “Sociology of Health and Illness” (SOC 209) class was able to explore and connect with the local healthcare environment through the support of a CELRI Collaborative Grant. Over the course of the Fall semester, students met with a diverse range of medical and public health practitioners, including representatives from SOS Health Services, a local nonprofit healthcare clinic providing walk-in services to those without adequate health insurance.

 

“Their visit was the perfect way for our students to understand social disparities of health in a very tangible and community-focused way," says Cordner. "They described barriers to accessing care experienced by uninsured residents of the valley and talked about initiatives they have put in place to decrease or eliminate as many of those barriers as possible. Learning directly from these community partners allowed students to directly apply the somewhat abstract concepts we had talked about in class.”

Tuesday Tech Tip

Whitman College Technology Services (WCTS) is introducing Nudge, a new security feature that helps ensure that Whitman's Macs remain current with patches and updates released by Apple. This helps keep your data safe and protect the integrity of the Whitman network. Starting with the next Apple updates you will see a pop up notification similar to the image below:

 

Simply click on “Update Mac” to update now, or on “Defer” to update later.

 

For more information, including the important differences between "update" and "upgrade," check out this Knowledge Base article. Questions?  Contact WCTS at 509-527-4976 or helpdesk@whitman.edu.

In this series, Whitman faculty and staff present controversial topics and lead engaging discussions, all within the comfort of the student residence halls. And if that isn’t sweet enough, there will be cookies to fuel the conversation. Join them at 7 p.m. tonight in the Anderson Hall Main Lounge for a discussion on the topic "Unpacking Harmful Perfectionism at Whitman," led by Director of the Intercultural Center Tebraie Banda-Johns, DEIA Program Coordinator Quin Nelson, and Director of LGBTQIA+ Student Services Rachel Freeman-Cohen.

The Whitman College Department of Music presents a "Chamber Music Concert" at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7 in Kimball Theatre. The event will feature performances by Linnea Gatmon-Sandrock '25, Bethany Hermann '23, Elizabeth Huang '25, Asim Kapoor '26, Kainoa Kawabata '25, Ben Kehrli '23 and Miles Wilderman '25.

The Whitman website will undergo system maintenance and style updates on the Ingeniux CMS platform, beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 12, and tentatively ending at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30. During that time, access to Ingeniux will be limited to the web team. If you normally submit your web requests through whitman.edu/webrequest, you may continue to do so. However, if you normally work with Workflow, please submit updates through whitman.edu/webrequest instead during this time. If you have an urgent request or have any questions, please get in touch with the web team at webteam@whitman.edu.

Daily COVID-19 Update

In accordance with Washington state Labor & Industries employer requirements, we are notifying the campus community that since yesterday, three people with Whitman access were confirmed positive for COVID-19. 

 

Please continue to follow all our campus COVID-19 protocols to help prevent transmission. If you have any symptoms that may be COVID-19 or know that you may have been exposed to coronavirus, please be tested. Additional masks and rapid test kits are available in the front entryway at the Welty Student Health Center during normal operating hours. 

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