The expansion will bring an additional 850 students and 62 faculty members to Virginia Beach.
By Noell Saunders
Old à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã University is celebrating the expansion of the School of Nursing programs and the establishment of a new Center for Telehealth Education and Research at the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center at 10 a.m. Oct. 16.
Old à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã has maintained a presence in Virginia Beach for 30 years. Its Higher Education Center is adjacent to Tidewater Community College. The move will complement ODU's health-sciences presence in Norfolk, introducing high-demand graduate programs in Virginia Beach, such as telehealth. It also will enlarge other programs in the Schools of Nursing and Community & Environmental Health within the College of Health Sciences. The expansion will bring an additional 850 students and 62 faculty members to Virginia Beach.
The event will include remarks from Old à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã President John R. Broderick; Karen Karlowicz, associate professor and chair of the School of Nursing; Austin Agho, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; Gov. Ralph Northam; and Virginia Beach Mayor Louis R. Jones.
In fall of 2018, the Virginia Beach Higher Education Center started offering upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in nursing and telehealth training, providing students dynamic new classroom and hands-on opportunities in these critical fields. This includes a day-long interprofessional telehealth seminar offered multiple times during the academic year and involves graduate students from ODU, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Hampton University and Virginia Wesleyan University.
In addition to a new telehealth center, the University later plans to launch a primary-care clinic and a substance-abuse prevention center, along with a phase II expansion of its simulation training facilities.
