Enrollment is full for new DO school at A-State

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published May 13, 2016 at 11:15 AM CDT

115 students have already enrolled for the new NYIT DO medical school at Arkansas State University. Chancellor Dr. Tim Hudson says of the 115 students, 47 of those are from Arkansas and 17 of those are graduates of Arkansas State University. Dr. Hudson says the new DO school will have a ribbon cutting June second at the renovated Wilson Hall. It will open August eighth. The New York Institute of Technology is hiring 50 professionals for the new DO school in teaching and other duties. The new DO school is expected to help in battling health disparities in the Delta. It is also expected to bring in millions of dollars in economic impacts to the region.

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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