SBA earns second national service honor
St. Benedict at Auburndale High School was recently named one of five recipients in the nation receiving the Charity & Social Service Honor presented by the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. This is the second time the school has received this honor, with the first being in 2014.
The school submitted a student-produced video to the Memphis Diocese describing service and charity as cornerstones of their mission, and the video was chosen to represent Memphis.
Senior Kate Dudek, who narrated and played an integral part in the production of the video, represented the school at the Honors Medal ceremony on March 12 at the National Shrine.
St. Benedict’s video is based on the school’s Benedictine charism of “pray and work.”
Over its 27 years as a diocesan school, St. Benedict has been in the forefront of student service with projects such as leading the high school canned food collection of for the Mid-South Food Bank each year, meeting the goals of Lifeblood drives, marching in Washington each year at the annual March for Life, and contributing to Birthright and Life Choices Pregnancy centers, Biking for Babies, Catholic Charities, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, Make-a-Wish, Ave Maria Home, St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen, Haiti Medical Missions of Memphis, Special Olympics, the Mayor’s Memphis Faith in Action Clean-up project, Go-Jim-Go LeBonheur Hospital efforts and more.
See the winning video at bit.ly/SBA-video-2016.
Freed-Hardeman to offer new doctorate
Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn., has announced it will offer a new Doctorate of Behavioral Health (D.B.H.) beginning this fall, pending final approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
The D.B.H. will be one of Tennessee’s first professional doctorates in behavioral health. It’s designed to prepare post-master’s, licensed, clinicians to provide advanced-integrated care in a variety of behavioral health settings. The 60-hour program will meet the needs of working clinicians who may enroll in the program as full-time or part-time students.
The curriculum includes traditional courses, virtual sessions, clinical rotations, video consultations with practitioners in the field and a capstone research project focused on students’ professional career interests. It is geared toward students who prefer an alternative to research-focused doctoral programs.
See more information at fhu.edu/dbh.
2 campuses sign dual admission agreement
Freed-Hardeman University Dickson campus and Nashville State Community College recently signed a joint enrollment and degree completion agreement that provides a seamless pathway to associate and baccalaureate degrees at FHU|Dickson. It began this spring, with students allowed to be jointly admitted to both institutions and to enroll in classes offered by both schools concurrently.
Access to facilities and programs offered jointly by NSCC and FHU include advising, registration, access to computer labs, internet accounts, libraries, student identification cards, sporting events and online transcripts with degree plan analyses.
In addition, students will be able to receive federal financial aid based on combined enrollment. One institution will serve as the “home” institution and the other will be designated the “host.”
Eligible students must plan to pursue an associate degree and a bachelor’s degree, meet current admission criteria for NSCC, and have earned 29 or fewer college-level semester hours with a cumulative grade point average of 2.0.
For more information, contact Ben Selbe at bselbe@fhu.edu or Leslie Lewis at leslie.lewis@nscc.edu.
