The outlook and demand for doctorly-prepared nurses is excellent. The Institute of Medicine recommended that the number of nurses with doctoral degrees should double by 2020 (IOM, 2011). Obtaining a doctoral degree is a major decision for any student to make. It is important that nursing students choose a program that best meets their career...Read More

Eastern Kentucky University online homeland security student, David Hodnett, interned with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Emergency Management Office (CMEMO) during the 2022-23 school year. Typically, thoughts and images of flooding, mud slides, hurricanes, and wildfires come to mind when thinking of emergency management. While emergency managers play a large part in leading the response and recovery...Read More

Do you know that following the 2008 economic recession, the total number of U.S. nonprofit jobs has grown by nearly 17%? That’s almost four times greater than for-profit businesses in the same timeframe. In Kentucky, the contrast is more stark - since 2008, the nonprofit sector has added 20% of jobs, compared to 3% of...Read More

Domestic violence is the "intentional and consistent use of power to control an intimate partner. It includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound their partner—or someone their partner loves".1 A person can be experiencing DV if they find themselves being controlled by the words and...Read More

When you spend money at a tourist destination for your vacation, where does all that money go? Ideally, the tourism dollars you’ve spent at a destination should go into supporting the local economy no matter how or where you spent the money. Tourism is said to be good for the economy, so it must be...Read More

I am a wife, a mother to four beautiful girls, a preschool teacher, and… a student in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at EKU specializing in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (IECE) content. As I approach my final semester in the MAT IECE program, I cannot be more thankful for this experience and...Read More