Cedarville to Launch Cybersecurity Track in Fall 2016
Cedarville University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science is launching a cybersecurity track within the computer science major for the 2016-2017 school year. In a post-Edward Snowden, Apple v. FBI age, cybersecurity is in the news nearly every day, and Cedarville's program will allow its students to be competitive in the computer science field.
According to Dark Reading, a cybersecurity news site, there is a lack in cybersecurity education. Of the top 10 computer science and ...
Ethics and the Pharmacist
Controversial issues such as late-term abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and contraceptives have dominated the news in recent month. Because of their controversial and difficult nature, these issues represent the need for the study of ethics.
Merriam-Webster defines ethics as “an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior; a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right and wrong.” Because ethics and healthcare are closely tied, ...
Comparing Pharmacy Graduate Programs
Students in Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy are already making their mark in healthcare, despite the program’s youth. As the first class of doctoral students graduates on May 7, who are Cedarville’s competitors in the pharmacy profession? What professional opportunities or concentrations do other graduate programs offer pharmacy students?
Cedars researched six pharmacy graduate programs at Midwest or faith-based institutions to provide a summary of Cedarville’s competiti...
48 Graduating Students Pioneer the Pharmacy Path
Cedarville University’s School of Pharmacy will graduate its first doctoral class of 48 students in just a few days. The program, which is nearing full accreditation, was simply a hope 10 years ago.
The beginning
A group of individuals familiar with the university created an advisory council in 2006 that was charged with envisioning a professional pharmacy program at the university. Dean of the School of Pharmacy Marc Sweeney said the school was founded on the idea to train Christian ...
Caretakers of the Campus
Cedarville University is a beautiful campus, but it takes a lot of work to keep it that way. The custodial staff at Cedarville cleans over a million square feet of the Cedarville campus daily, and with more than 3,500 students and 200 faculty members on campus to clean up after, the 24 full-time custodians are gainfully employed. Most people are not eager to clean up after themselves, let alone a few hundred other people. However, the custodial staff does this every day. And their job continues ...
The Last of Their Kind
Cedarville seniors Brittany Jones, Alexander LaBreche and Caleb Little will graduate this May as the last Cedarville students to study their respective academic programs. Jones is a sociology major, and LaBreche and Little are philosophy majors.
“The size of the school has driven us to large programs,” said Robert Parr, professor of sociology at Cedarville. “It’s a shift in our educational philosophy. It is reflected in the desire to have programs that are going to attract a larger ...
CU Pharmacy Students Advise Patients through Call Center
Students in Cedarville University's School of Pharmacy gain experience in medication therapy management by working in Cedarville's Cedar Care Call Center. The Call Center opened recently and is led by Phillip Thornton, vice chair of experiential programs and associate professor of pharmacy practice at Cedarville.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnYSA8jrrM
Read more about the School of Pharmacy at Cedarville and its first graduating class in the April issue of Cedars, on newsstands April ...
CU Launches Divinity, Ministry Programs
Cedarville University is accepting students into its new Master of Divinity degree program for the fall 2016 semester. Additionally, Cedarville's Master of Ministry degree program is also now available completely online.
The new Master of Divinity program includes 98 credit hours and is being offered both as a traditional stand-alone, three-year program and as an accelerated five-year program for incoming freshmen and current sophomores in the Bible program.
Students in the accelera...
School of Pharmacy Serves the Underserved
Members of Cedarville’s School of Pharmacy are partnering with ministry initiatives in Belize and Ghana to serve the underserved. Cedarville students from all academic disciplines are encouraged to integrate their academic studies with mission work by the university’s biblical foundation and gospel focus, and pharmacy students and faculty are serving via medicine.
Tiffany Zehel is a third-year professional pharmacy student in the School of Pharmacy at Cedarville. Zehel, who grew up in ...
Cedarville Politics Ramp up for Election Season
The campaigns, debates, primaries and caucuses across America are clear signs that election season is here – and not just any election, but a presidential election.
Cedarville students are experiencing some of this hype as two student organizations, Turning Point USA and College Republicans, work tirelessly to bring politics into the spotlight on campus.
The Cedarville chapter of Turning Point USA was named “Chapter of the Month” by Turning Point USA for February 2016. The organization ...
