GIS Education Weekly: Teaching Nurses about Opioids Using Maps

On and Off Campus

Accessible and inaccessible entrances at UT. 

The Daily Texan: New map helps students find accessible entrances - "The accessible door map is available on the UT Maps webpage and shows students all the accessible entrances on campus, including ones that have power-assisted doors. "

Delaware Gazette: City, OWU form partnership - "Ohio Wesleyan University and the City of Delaware signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday creating a permanent OWU student internship within the city’s Department of Public Utilities and formalizing additional opportunities for city-campus collaboration." Students will work in many areas including GIS.

GIS Education Weekly: UW Stevens Point Geography on the Block

Courses and Programs

Inside HigherEd: U Wisconsin-Stevens Point to Eliminate 13 Majors - The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point plans to address “fiscal challenges” with changes in the curriculum and staff. "Programs pegged for closure are American studies, art (excluding graphic design), English (excluding English for teacher certification), French, geography, geoscience, German, history (excluding social science for teacher certification), music literature, philosophy, political science, sociology and Spanish."

The University of Geneva offers a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Geomatics for a Sustainable Environment (pdf). The program includes a MOOC. The certificate program is limited to 30 participants. Via LinkedIn.