ULM received an over 2-million-dollar grant from the Louisiana Department of Health to expand its health science offerings. The funding comes through the Rural Transformation Project, hoping to provide more educated medical professionals to rural hospitals. Dr. Wendy Bailes, the dean of the ULM College of Health Sciences, says one of the three initiatives of the grant is to increase nursing school enrollment.
Cut 7 (08) “…students per year.”
Beginning July 1, DCFS raised foster care board rate payments from 600 to 900-dollars a month, but stopped reimbursing families for incidental expenses. Danielle Eley cares for three children, and she says those reimbursements help pay for a lot.
Eley’s testimony helped Covington lawmakers convince DCFS Secretary Rebecca Harris to bring back the reimbursements for the remainder of this fiscal year.
LSU fifth-year senior offensive guard Bo Bordelon has earned his starting spot after four seasons as a backup. The son of former standout Tigers lineman Ben Bordelon, Bo says he had to earn his starting job after asking Lane Kiffin and his coaching staff for a fresh start. He made the switch from right tackle to left guard and put on extra weight this offseason and says his new offensive line coaches have made a big difference.
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the NCAA’s stay request against the ruling giving all class of 2022 athletes a fifth year of eligibility. Any athletes looking to return are now ineligible until an expedited appeal hearing unless they have been granted another state-level injunction or temporary restraining order like the one issued by a Baton Rouge judge on Wednesday. That order was granted to over 30 college athletes, many of whom played at Louisiana colleges, including former LSU defensive end Jack Pyburn.