MATC offers day, evening, and weekend classes at campuses in downtown Milwaukee, Oak Creek, West Allis, and Mequon. Enrollment is about 35,000. MATC offers over a dozen accredited associate degrees, as well as well over a hundred vocational licenses, job training certificates, and adult enrichment courses. MATC also runs GED and HSED classes at local community-based organizations and offers high school diplomas through its Adult High School program. One of MATC's educational outreach programs is the operation of the two PBS stations serving Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin. The stations, WMVS channel 10 and WMVT channel 36, are known collectively as Milwaukee PBS. In 1992, in partnership with Zenith Electronics and AT&T, Channel 10 produced the nation’s first test broadcast of a digital television signal. In March 2000, the station became the first in Wisconsin to begin regular broadcast of digital, high-definition programs. MATC entered the wireless digital era in 2003, becoming the first college in Wisconsin to provide wireless Internet service throughout all campuses.Milwaukee Area Technical College traces its roots to a 1911 Wisconsin law whose purpose was to encourage young adults who dropped out of high school to work full-time to continue their education part-time. Employers were required to allow workers to attend and students could participate in the evenings.In 1912, the Milwaukee Continuation School opened near Mason Street and the Milwaukee River. Its name was changed to the Milwaukee Vocational School in 1916 as trade skills were emphasized. Enrollment grew quickly, and in 1920-28, a new six-story building was completed at 6th & State Street–the core of what is now the Downtown campus. An influx of adult students led to a new name in 1948, Milwaukee Vocational and Adult School.With a growth in technical courses, the name became Milwaukee Vocational, Adult and Technical School in 1964. In 1968, it merged with the Milwaukee Institute of Technology (founded in 1951) to become Milwaukee Technical College. The following year, it merged with the other vocational schools in the metropolitan area to form Milwaukee Area Technical College, which became a member of the statewide Vocational, Technical and Adult Education System (now the Wisconsin Technical College System).One of the buildings they have is located at 1027 N.
OBJECTIVE:Women in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) experience sexual and reproductive health disparities which worsen health outcomes and may negatively impact recovery. While in recovery programs, women engage with different healthcare professionals, but how these professionals provide sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) is not well known. The purpose of this study is to identify perceived barriers and strategies to overcome barriers to providing SRH to women in recovery from OUD from the perspective of OUD recovery healthcare professionals. METHODS:Guided by the social ecological framework, we used a qualitative descriptive study design to conduct individual semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals (nurses, doctors, leaders/managers, peer support specialists, therapists, and case managers). Data was analyzed using thematic analysis. RESULTS:Among individual interviews with N = 34 healthcare professionals, we identified two overarching themes: Barriers and Facilitators. Barriers included unmet provider training needs, navigating patient stigma and shame surrounding SRH, and fragmented healthcare systems. Facilitators included leveraging communities of shared experiences and developing ideal models of SRH programming. This included co-location of SRH and recovery spaces and the importance of peer support specialists in women's recovery journeys. CONCLUSIONS:Multi-level challenges to address SRH in recovery require discipline specific training of healthcare professionals, empowering peer professionals, and policy and advocacy to address systemic issues.
Laser-driven electron transport across a sample has garnered enormous attentions over several decades, as it provides a much faster way to control electron dynamics. Light is an electromagnetic wave, so how and why an electron can acquire a longitudinal velocity remains unanswered. Here we show that it is the magnetic field that steers the electron to the light propagation direction. But, quantitatively, our free-electron model is still unable to reproduce the experimental velocities. Going beyond the free electron mode and assuming the system absorbs all the photon energy, the theoretical velocity matches the experimental observation. We introduce a concept of the resistive transport, where electrons deaccelerate under a constant resistance after laser excitation. This theory finally explains why the experimental distance-versus-time forms a down-concave curve, and unifies ballistic and superdiffusive transports into a single resistive transport. We expect that our finding will motivate further investigations.
Cancer is the leading cause of mortality in U.S. Latino adults, a group with limited access to screening, higher rates of advanced disease, and prone to online misinformation. Our project created a Facebook Live social media video campaign on general cancer prevention, screening, risk, information, and resources, targeting Spanish-monolingual Latinos during the COVID-19 pandemic. Content was delivered in Spanish by fluent, ethnically concordant topic experts and cancer center staff. Four prerecorded and three livestream interview videos were produced, amassing over 161 shares, 1,000 engagements, 12,000 views, 19,000 people reached, and 34,000 impressions in a span of four months. Strengths of this project included developing community partnerships and collaborations, providing evidence-based cancer information in a culturally responsive manner to often-excluded community members during COVID-19 pandemic, and presenting our cancer center as an accessible resource to the wider community. Future directions include formalizing evaluation strategies to capture medical engagement via cancer screening and detection rates, delivering focused cancer discussions by disease sites, and further expanding audience base through mixed media formats.
Our project bidirectionally engaged Spanish-monolingual Latino community members and culturally/linguistically concordant cancer experts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strengths included developing community partnerships and collaborations, providing evidence-based cancer information in a culturally responsive manner to a marginalized group, and presenting an academic cancer center as an accessible resource to its community. Programmatic efforts to improve our project include formalizing evaluation strategies to capture medical engagement via cancer screening and detection rates, delivering focused cancer discussions by disease sites, and further expanding audience base through mixed media formats.
