BLACKSBURG, Va., March 5 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
When Ela Austin hit the ground running in a newly created leadership role this past fall, one of her first big tasks was to make sure Virginia Tech's public health graduate and undergraduate degree programs keep accreditation.
That process is now deeply under way with a "very, very strong" preliminary report from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), said Austin, the first associate dean for public health programs at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. The goal is to achieve a full seven-year renewal of the public health program's accreditation by midsummer.
"I knew that Virginia Tech was comin...