Podcasts about southeast president carlos vargas

On Monday, Southeast Missouri State University released its “Protect the Nest” plan in preparation for students’ return to campus. To get more information about the plan and the context around it, KRCU’s Clayton Hester spoke to Southeast President Carlos Vargas. “This plan is the result of a number of conversations we’ve had across the campus from the beginning of the spring when we actually had the pandemic hit us,” Vargas said. He spoke about the decisions made to cut out a number of breaks in the Southeast calendar and having the university go online starting at the Thanksgiving break. “The idea behind shortening the semester in this way was to avoid having the students go home or other locations with the potential risk of getting infected and then coming back and then bringing the virus to this community here,” he said. Should a student contract COVID-19 living on campus, Dearmont will be used as a living facility where students can be relocated. Vargas also said that Dearmont has

Southeast President Carlos Vargas spoke with KRCU on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 and told us how pleased he is with how quickly the campus community adapted to doing business in new ways. He also told us about a student Emergency Fund that has been established and that students who are graduating in Spring 2020 will be welcomed to particpate in graduation ceremonies in the Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 semester. The Spring 2020 ceremony was postponed because of the pandemic and guidelines that limit the gatherings of large groups to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

On this installment of Going Public, we talk with Southeast President Carlos Vargas. about Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020 and it’s impact on Southeast Missouri State’s budget. The audio from the interview is from the television program “Focus on Southeast.”

We sat down with Southeast President Carlos Vargas on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, for our monthly conversation on the television program "Focus on Southeast." Dr. Vargas told us about his visit with U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in March where they discussed ways to help keep college more affordable. The complete interview is available here .

Dan Woods sat down with Southeast President Carlos Vargas on Tuesday, October 18 for their monthly conversation about issues and events impacting the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Woods began by asking the president about two reports of sexual assault on the campus in 2016 and the the university handles those situations. Vargas: Well, let me start by saying that I am personally, terribly troubled by those assaults and not only I alone but everybody at the university on the campus, the community is very troubled by that. So, what we have done over the years and we currently have is in place, a number of programs. First of all, I think it is important to say that if anybody is aware of any kind of sexual assault that they should communicate it to somebody. Now, we have offices: the Department of Public Safety, of course, is one of them; the Campus Violence Prevention Program is another one; Counseling and Disability Services is another one; the Dean of Students Office