Eric Bailey Greetings Everyone, With the official approval of the ERHD program last month and now the evaluation of applicants for the ERHD program, we are very excited about the start of the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities Graduate Certificate Online Program this coming Fall 2010! Fortunately, our ERHD program was granted extra time this spring to … Read more
Yesterday was a historic day for our program! We were officially approved by the Chancellor of East Carolina University to start our graduate certificate online program for the university. This is a day that I had envisioned for the past 5 years when I started brainstorming the ideal about creating a certificate program specifically for … Read more
Here is the latest: The ECU Academic Council approved the ERHD program in February and it was later forwarded and approved by Faculty Senate. We now await the official signature from the Chancellor for final approval. All indications are that it will be ready to go for the Fall 2010!! Stay Tuned! As soon as … Read more
Greetings Everyone, Just to keep you updated on the progress of the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program, yesterday I presented the program before the Educational Policies and Planning Committee (EPPC). By the end of the meeting, the EPPC approved our ERHD Graduate Certificate Online program. The next step is to request approval of the certificate … Read more
Greetings Everyone, A few days ago, I learned that our ERHD Graduate Certificate Program was approved by the university’s Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC) on October 21st. After this approval, it moved to our Graduate School Administrative Board (GSAB) and it was approved at this level committee also. Now our Certificate proposal moves to the next … Read more
As stated in our previous blog entries, we are truly grateful for the initial interest in our ERHD Graduate Certificate Program at East Carolina University. We are also very grateful for the support from HRSA to fund our proposed certificate program for this year and 2010. Nonetheless, we are still seeking “official approval” from the … Read more
I want to thank all the inquires from potential students, professionals and faculty who have inquired about our new ERHD program over the past few months. We have been working diligently to get our new program into the system at East Carolina University and to obtain federal funding from HRSA (Health Resources and Service Administration). … Read more
The ERHD Graduate Certificate Online Program will be offering for the Spring 2010 semester the course: Ethnic Health & Health Disparities: MPH 6008. . This course is one of the foundation courses of the entire program. It is a course that is not offerred at many other universities so this is a very special class. … Read more
Now that we have our budget for the year, the ERHD Program can fund 5 (full-time or part-time) students who enroll into the program. We have allocated funds for each student. Students can use the funding to pay for an ERHD class and/or expenses related directly to their ERHD course. In order to receive funding, … Read more
Greetings, My name is Eric Bailey and I am Director & Professor of the new Ethnic & Rural Health Disparities Graduate Certificate Online Program at East Carolina University. I want to welcome you to this very innovative online certificate program. It is the first of its kind in the entire United States and we officially … Read more