by Kathryn Farris | May 25, 2021 | COVID-19, News, News Slider
Lipscomb is continuing its goal of protecting the campus community from COVID, especially with the plans for a full-capacity return in the fall. On Wednesday, May 26 the University is holding its second free vaccine clinic for students, faculty and staff. “We’re trying to do the right thing for our community in being able to protect the community as best as we can.” Said Dr. Kevin Eidson, Director of Health and Wellness to Lumination reporter Abigail Davis in April. The clinic is set to administer both the second dose of Moderna for April event attendees as well as the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Lipscomb previously had the intention of distributing the J&J vaccine at the earlier event. However, the distribution of the vaccine was put on a temporary pause by the CDC after six ‘rare’ cases of blood-clotting in recipients. The CDC has since recommended the use of the Johnson & Johnson be resumed. The free vaccine clinic is available to current Lipscomb Academy and Lipscomb University faculty and staff and university students ages 18 and over. No appointment is necessary. While no official announcement has been made regarding required vaccinations come fall, Lipscomb is pushing students to upload vaccine proof-of-dose to the online health system. Photo via Abigail...
by Abigail Davis | Apr 23, 2021 | COVID-19, News, News Slider
It was just weeks ago when Lipscomb Health Services announced they would be hosting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for faculty, staff, and students. However, in true COVID-era fashion, those plans were slightly altered. “We got word through the CDC through the state of Tennessee Department of Health and Metro Health Department that the CDC and the ACIP decided to halt the administration of that vaccine until they looked at some other data,” said Dr. Kevin Eidson, Director of Health and Wellness. “So we will know more once that data is released and the guidance comes out.” Upon receiving this information, the University Health Services decided to seek other options for vaccinating the Lipscomb community. “In the interim we were able to acquire another vaccine through the state and we will be giving the Moderna vaccine…The good thing about that vaccine is we are able to give you the first vaccine, we are going to give you a card, and then you can get the second dose of the same vaccine at a different location if you need to. We’re trying to do the right thing for our community in being able to protect the community as best as we can,” said Dr. Eidson. The vaccination clinic will now be held on Wednesday, April 28 and will provide the first-dose of the Moderna vaccine for any current Lipscomb Academy or Lipscomb University faculty and staff, and university students ages 18 and over. Three hundred doses will be available on a first-come first-serve basis. Lumination will continue to update you on COVID vaccinations and the fall ‘return to...
by Kathryn Farris | Apr 19, 2021 | BREAKING NEWS, COVID-19, News, News Slider
Lipscomb’s one-day Johnson & Johnson vaccination clinic was rescheduled and adjusted following the temporary pause on the vaccine’s distribution. Six cases of blood clotting were found in J&J recipients out of the more than 7 million distributed doses. “The use of this vaccine is ‘paused’ for now. This is because the safety systems that make sure vaccines are safe received a small number of reports of a rare and severe type of blood clot happening in people who got this vaccine,” said the CDC in their report. The campus vaccination event is now set to take place Wednesday, April 28. The first half of the 2-dose Moderna vaccine will be distributed for free to Lipscomb faculty and staff and university students ages 18 and over. “Simply take the vaccine card that you will receive at the Lipscomb clinic with you when you go for your second dose and show the healthcare provider,” said Dr. Kevin Eidson, director of health and wellness. “Additional COVID-19 vaccine clinics may be held in the future if there is sufficient demand and more does are made available to Lipscomb.” Lumination will continue to keep you updated on Lipscomb’s vaccine...
by Erin Turner | Jan 20, 2015 | News Slider
He does it all — everything from serving in church ministries to playing latin percussion music in his spare time. And his diversity doesn’t stop there. Anthony Carter, Chief Diversity Officer at Johnson & Johnson, spoke to students about the importance of diversity in the workplace at Media Masters Tuesday evening in Ezell. To get where he is today, Carter took a slight detour on his journey into the field of communications. “It took me three hours in a laboratory to prick my finger to do a blood test and I knew right away that this [pre-med] is not really for me,” Carter said. During college, one of his professors invited him to do a radio talk show, giving him the chance to bring current topics to students on campus. Soon, this broadcast endeavor led him to writing for one of his school’s newspapers. “I started to fall in love with this thing called communications because I ultimately thought that it was the true way to express who I am.” His love of communications took him down another path, incorporating both diversity and inclusion. “Diversity is who we are and inclusion is how we work together,” Carter said. “Communications is the understanding of all of that.” In 2002, Carter joined Johnson & Johnson as Director of Corporate Communications, and in 2005 he was promoted to Vice President of Corporate Communications. A day in the life of Carter involves sifting through hundreds of emails and doing exactly what he loves — creating an atmosphere of transparency with those he works with. “My passion in that work [communications] makes me really comfortable in...
by Carly Bergthold | Jan 20, 2015 | News Slider
Business leaders from the Nashville area met Tuesday morning at Lipscomb for a discussion on workplace diversity in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Lipscomb University Department of Communication and Journalism hosted the event in Ezell Center partnering with the Council on Workforce Innovation and National Organization for Workforce Diversity. Guest speaker Anthony Carter, Chief Diversity Officer at Johnson & Johnson, shared his ideas about diversity over breakfast. Carter discussed his belief that corporations should concentrate more on social leadership and global well-being. “Diversity is who we are,” Carter said. “And inclusion is how we work together. The beauty of that is how we pull all of that together to make sure that we are of best interest to our customers.” Carter views diversity as a social justice imperative, and pointed to Martin Luther King Jr. as a hero worthy of emulation. “His work,” Carter said about King Jr., “in fact his life, illustrates so accurately diversity and social justice. Think about it, Dr. King dismantled the barriers of segregation and transformed a nation.” Breakfast attendees came from all over Nashville to learn how to better support diversity in their own businesses, corporations and organizations. “Diversity really means everything, Lori Adukeh, executive director of 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee said. “It gives people the opportunity to be different, and yet be the same, to collaborate, to be partners.” Attendees also discussed the increased productivity diversity brings. “Diversity, and workforce diversity specifically, really speaks to equality and opportunity,” said Jacky Akbari, director of employee services at the Nashville Career Advancement Center. “We’ve found that when there is a diverse...
