Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) has partnered with the physician assistant (PA) program at the Northern Kentucky Campus of University of the Cumberlands (UC). ARH will be providing 300 clinical rotation slots to UC Northern Kentucky Campus PA students. (Cumberlands’ PA students are required to complete 10 months of supervised clinical practice experiences in various fields of medicine in order to graduate.) Because of the partnership with ARH, students from Appalachia will be able to return home and complete these clinical rotations at ARH facilities.

Homecoming at University of the Cumberlands will take place Friday, October 19 through Sunday, October 21 this year. The theme “It’s a Cumberlands Thing” focuses on all the little things about UC that connect every Cumberlands alumnus.

University of the Cumberlands and Union College are partnering with Kentucky Harvest Southeast again this holiday season to raise food for local foodbanks. Each year, the colleges see who can donate the most food to local pantries before the holidays, which are typically the months with heaviest need for foodbanks. This year, the competition begins October 15 and finishes November 15.

Applications for University of the Cumberlands’ (UC) physician assistant (PA) program on Cumberlands’ campus in Florence, Kentucky are now being accepted. Those interested have until March 1, 2019 to apply.

University of the Cumberlands (UC) will be hosting its first Pats Serve event on October 19. Pats Serve is a new initiative in which UC’s administration sets aside one day each semester for the UC family to provide community service to the local area.

The Department of Nursing at University of the Cumberlands (UC) has added a Medicaid Nurse Aid online class to its program offerings. NRSOL 100: Medicaid Nurse Aid is a three-credit hour course lasting eight weeks, offered both on-campus and online. Those who successfully complete the course are eligible to sit for state testing to become official Medicaid Nurse Aids.