APSU This Week: Austin Peay to host virtual career fair for students during coronavirus crisis
(Posted April 20, 2020)
Austin Peay State University will host its first-ever virtual career fair for students whose job hunt has been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The fair also offers students a new and innovative way to talk live with employers and graduate schools to start their careers, find internships or master鈥檚 degree programs and even to seek part-time work while they finish school.
The virtual career fair is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 22 at . Students are encouraged to log in to Jobs4Govs using their OneStop identification and RSVP prior to the fair. Students can share their resumes with employers as part of the RSVP process. Students also can preview employers and graduate schools scheduled to attend the fair. Jobs4Govs access for alumni job seekers is available as well.
Students can RSVP to the virtual career fair at . More than 25 employers and graduate schools are registered to participate, including Amsurg, CDE Lightband, Elite Sports Medicine + Orthopedics, Mutual of Omaha and Tennessee Department of Revenue.
For more information and instructions on how to navigate the Virtual Career Fair successfully, visit .
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Art + Design celebrates student work with virtual exhibition
The Department of Art + Design is celebrating the end of the 2019-20 academic year with the 52nd Annual Juried Student Exhibition. The professionally juried exhibition runs through April 30. All are invited to attend.
You can see the exhibition .
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APSU Art + Design students taking work online for senior exhibits
The student art gallery, like most of the Austin Peay State University campus, is empty. Usually, at this point in the semester, graduating Art + Design students use the space to host public exhibitions of their work, but this spring has been a bit unusual. In early March, the spread of COVID-19 caused all APSU classes to move fully online, effectively canceling the art exhibits for 10 APSU seniors enrolled in the department's Studio Art Capstone Thesis class.
But the persistent young artists aren鈥檛 letting a global pandemic stop their artistic careers. Beginning this Friday and continuing for the next three weeks, the students will host virtual exhibits every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
All shows will be announced on the APSU Art + Design and pages. Each artist has picked a slightly different strategy - a website, virtual world, video collection, Minecraft site, digital flipbook - so each announcement will take the viewer to a new web address.
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As the virus keeps people at home, APSU鈥檚 Foy Fitness Center steps up with online sessions
As we all inch our way towards reclusion, it鈥檚 important to remember to keep our bodies, as well as our minds, in shape. Lucky for Austin Peay students, Lauren Wilkinson, assistant director of services at the Foy Fitness & Recreation Center on campus, is coordinating online fitness instruction courses.
Wilkinson said she hopes to have Zumba, yoga and cardio/high-intensity interval training (HIIT) live sessions in the coming weeks.
For more information about live yoga, Zumba and exercise sessions, contact Wilkinson at wilkinsonl@apsu.edu or send a message directly to the Foy Center via its or pages @apsufoy.
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Dr. Kershner discuss imagination
鈥榃e Can鈥檛 Make It Without the Arts鈥 YouTube series continues
Austin Peay鈥檚 College of Arts and Letters has launched a new YouTube series that focuses on sharing solace through 鈥渢he power, depth of reflection and context only available from the arts.鈥
The college鈥檚 dean, Barry Jones, hopes the series 鈥 called 鈥淲e Can鈥檛 Make It Without the Arts鈥 鈥 will help viewers deal with 鈥渢he isolation and uncertainty of the coronavirus and social distancing.鈥
A new video featuring a faculty or staff member will post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to , Jones said. The presenter will 鈥渟hare something from the arts that they turn to during times of anxiety, something that gives them hope and helps them navigate turbulent waters.鈥
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