The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation is hosting a Bus Driver and Food Services Career Fair on Monday, June 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bosse High School. The fair is for individuals interested in becoming an EVSC bus driver or working at one of the EVSC’s school cafeterias as a food service assistant.

At the fair, officials with the EVSC’s Offices of Transportation and Food and Nutrition will be on hand to answer questions and conduct on-site interviews. Individuals interested in working in EVSC school cafeterias will be able to get a first-hand look at a school cafeteria. And, for those interested in becoming a school bus driver, EVSC school bus trainers also will be on hand to discuss licensing, school bus laws and more. To be hired as an EVSC bus driver, it is not a pre-requisite for individuals to have a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). Once hired, the EVSC will train individuals and assist them in getting their CDL.

A food service assistant is initially hired as a substitute employee and has the opportunity to apply for a permanent position as it becomes available. Permanent positions are three hours per day, Monday through Friday. Hours vary, but generally employees will work three hours between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. depending on the school, making it a great option for parents who would like to work while their children are in school. Food service assistants also receive holidays, sick and personal leave time.

EVSC school bus drivers work from approximately 6 to 8 a.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. with additional hours available, if interested. Full-time benefits including medical insurance, holiday pay, personal and sick leave and more are available to EVSC drivers.

For more information, visit www.evscschools.com and see the link for Bus Driver Career Fair under Community at the top of the site, or call 435-1BUS.

The University of Evansville has approved a new undergraduate major in health communication that will enable students to develop communication skills that can be applied specifically to careers in the health field. UE will be one of the few universities that offer an undergraduate major specifically in health communication.

The health communication major will give students the basic knowledge and skills needed to go on to careers in advertising, public relations, journalism and multimedia production specifically in the health field. It will also give students an understanding of areas related to public health and health services where this knowledge can be applied. It will provide practical experience to students through internships with professional organizations in the health field.

Specific areas that health communication majors will be exposed to include:

Provider-patient communication

Heath care organization communication

Risk communication / Crisis communication

Strategic health communication campaigns

New communication technologies (eHealth)

Careers in which expertise in health communication can be applied include:

Patient advocacy

Health care marketing

Public health campaign specialist

Health education specialist

Risk communication specialist

Health publication editor/reporter

Health information manager

Advances in communication technology and the growth of the health industry have created an environment for health communication to become one of the fastest growing areas in the field of communication. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects job growth in areas related to health communication will be faster than average from 2012-2022.

For more information on IE’s new health communication major, visit: www.evansville.edu/majors/communication/healthcommunication.cfm

UE’s new health communications major joins a rich selection of health profession programs offered at the University, including health services administration, physical therapy, physical therapy assistant, and nursing. Another addition will be the Physician Assistant program, slated to begin in 2017. Physician assistants are nationally certified and state-licensed health care professionals who provide direct patient care and work as part of a physician-led team in delivering a broad range of diagnostic, therapeutic, preventative, and health maintenance services. They work in diverse medical and surgical specialties including family and internal medicine, emergency care, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery and sub-surgical specialties, and mental and behavioral health care. PAs work in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, clinics, physicians’ offices, and other health care facilities. For more information about the profession visit www.aapa.org.

The Bureau of Labor projects that the job outlook for physician assistants is very strong. Their estimate is for employment of physician assistants to grow 38 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations. For more information visit www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physician-assistants.htm.