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Salem College Will Focus On Preparing Women For Careers In Health Fields

The Main Hall at Salem Academy and College. Photo courtesy of Salem Academy and College

Salem College is making some major curriculum changes to focus on training women for leadership roles in health fields. 

The college will introduce three new health-oriented majors this fall, along with programs geared toward leadership roles for women in health.

The Winston-Salem school is revamping its core liberal arts curriculum, and expanding its internship and service-learning opportunities to encompass health-related issues.

College officials say it will be the first liberal arts institution to establish a distinct focus on preparing women for health leadership roles.

Lucy Rose is vice-chair of the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees.

Rose says in a news release that “it's absolutely critical that we begin to close the gap between the high number of women professionals and the low number of women in leadership and decision-making positions.”

The school says that its new educational model is based on extensive research and planning, as well as prospective student feedback reflecting a growing interest in health issues and more purpose-driven learning.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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