An Important Message from President Tony Digiovanni
Last month we were all beginning to feel the initial effects of the COVID-19 crisis on our personal and professional lives, not to mention our overall well-being. A month later, the impact on our communities continues to be significant yet the strength, resiliency, and generosity of our CLU community is at its best right now.
While our online degree programs and personalized student services continue without disruption, we are acutely aware of the unexpected financial burdens and temporary hardships our students are experiencing during current life and learning disruptions. Like many of us, our students are being forced to quickly adapt to new realities and new financial circumstances.
Our goal is to leave no student behind. Which is why I’m pleased to share that we have launched the Golden Rule Student Assistance Fund that will provide financial relief toward tuition and unexpected expenses that might disrupt a CLU student’s academic journey or performance.
If you are able to donate, please know that 100% of your gift will go directly to students in need of emergency assistance. Your gift helps students continue their academic journey and realize their vision to change the world.
Please take care of yourself, your families, and know that we are in this together.
--Tony Digiovanni, CLU President and CEO
#GivingTuesdayNow on May 5th is a global day of giving and unity as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. In response to this unifying call to action, CLU is proud to participate. We are raising critical donations toward the Golden Rule Student Assistance Fund. Give today or save the date to join us on May 5th in the effort to leave no CLU student behind during the COVID-19 crisis!
Announcement: M.A. Human Resources Management and SHRM
As the world’s largest association of HR professionals, the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) has acknowledged that CLU’s Master of Arts in Human Resource Management is aligned with SHRM’s HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates. SHRM serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. With this new designation, we prepare our students to meet the needs of today’s challenging business landscape by aligning our HR program with SHRM’s recommended standards for degree-based coursework.
The HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates is based on extensive research and is revalidated every three to five years. Over time, it increasingly integrates the HR Competency Model components most relevant to early-career HR professionals. This instrument was developed by SHRM to define the minimum HR content areas that should be studied by HR students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The guidelines are part of SHRM’s Academic Initiative to define HR education standards taught in universities. We join approximately 375 educational institutions acknowledged by SHRM as being in alignment with its suggested guides and templates. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries and more than 575 affiliated chapters.
Pictured above: CLU graduates Paquita Gantt and Michelle Meade
Recognizing our Healthcare
Faculty Heroes on the Front Lines
L to R: Dr. Alicia Chatman and Dr. Kim Brown-Jackson are both Healthcare Faculty members at Claremont Lincoln University
From Dr. Alicia Chatman: At Emory University, I work with the researchers and physicians within the Digestive Disease Department. I have been working with COVID-19 ensuring that my faculty members (physicians) can either continue running their practice (as normally as possibly through telemedicine and virtual visits) or be redeployed in the non ICU COVID-19 inpatient areas. Currently, I work with 47 faculty members and 6 basic researchers
During the COVID era, we are writing history. We are leading the path to show the next 3 generations how to control and level a global pandemic. Since March 13, 2019 I have had several staff members test positive and even more staff member become PIUs and self quarantine and sadly I have even seen 2 extended peers not make it out of the ICU. As an administrator, it is not only my job to balance budgets and ensure policy and laws, but to help my people as much as I can. Staying in contact with the doctors, the staff: nurses, MAs, greeters and others has become a daily chore that I am happy to do. As a citizen and a healthcare leader, I recognize all too well how the COVID 19 disease is not only affecting us, but our family and our friends. I hope that we are taking note and writing not only about the treatments that are failing and succeeding but about the people who are on the front lines putting themselves and their loved ones at risk.
At CLU, we are preparing our students for this type of crisis. Our Leadership in Action course helps students showcase their own person mission and relate it to what and why they are going down this road. If this crisis isn't the best teacher for understanding why it's important to wake up at 5am and begin taking calls and listening in on town halls from the State, the Federal Government, the local authorities and more until the late evening hours, then there is not such a course. Being a leader in healthcare is not about just sitting behind a desk, but being active, aware and on the pulse of what is going on.
Dr. Kim Brown-Jackson was awarded the Gold Level Edison Award for Innovation in Threat Defense and Security.
She is supporting efforts to deliver a rapid, simplified, point-of-care diagnostic test for COVID -19 that gives results in just 45 minutes in partnership with BARDA and Cepheid. This effort may strengthen the public health response for everyone. The Cepheid's COVID-19 test was just granted Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA for the current Coronavirus outbreak and will be used on the GeneXpert diagnostic platform.
Thank you Dr. Chatman and Dr. Brown-Jackson from your CLU Family!
Until we can celebrate together...
Graduates--
It is our greatest joy to celebrate your achievements. We look forward to the time when we can be together and honor all you have accomplished.
Until then, we are delighted to share Doneva Chavis's wonderful "homemade graduation ceremony" video she made for her family and friends to celebrate her accomplishment.
We can't wait to congratulate you all!
(Doneva Chavis is a CLU graduate in the M.A. Organizational Leadership- Higher Education program).
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