lines between our offerings to give more options to the student in what they learn and to give more assurance to the employer of how multi-dimensional our graduates are .
For example , the shortage of healthcare professionals is at a crisis point . All of our partners need nurses and mental health counselors . Baptist Health , Availity and Brooks Rehabilitation stepped in with us , helped us chart the path , and offered critical resources .
What we ’ re seeing is the shifting of how medicine is being practiced . Healthcare will become much more dispersed . There will always be hospitals , but the care will be much more in the home , or virtual . You ’ ll see more intermediaries , like highly trained nurses , making more decisions with patients . And the specialization here is really something : nurses will very soon be called on to embrace big data and artificial intelligence tools , for example . At Jacksonville University , people can get their nursing degrees on a traditional track or after they ' ve gotten their college degree in something else . They want to upskill themselves to cross over , and we create an accessible pathway for that .
In the Davis College of Business , we ' re seeing more businesses hiring not only for the basics — finance , marketing , accounting , statistics , those are the go-tos . Those will always be the language of the modern business , but we ' re seeing a much heavier tech overlay , whether it ' s engineering , data analytics and data science and other similar fields . So that begins to inform , and modify , and then dominate where we go — right down to how you organize the offerings of the College and our STEAM Institute . What you ’ ve seen us do here recently is bring science , technology and engineering much closer to the core teachings in the
Davis College . That allows for lots more cross-collaboration in business , science and technology , and aviation sciences .
Thinking about the Linda Berry Stein College : I believe while many universities have been turning down the volume knob on the classic humanities , that ’ s not our view . Creativity , critical thinking , communications , being able to mentally walk 360 degrees around a problem to assess it and solve it — that ’ s what the humanities teaches , and that ’ s what employers are looking for in their new hires . What we did for the first time in this university ' s history is to take the core humanities , where we ' ve been well-known for decades , and create a School of Humanities . The creation of this school rightly elevates its stature and sends a signal of respect and priority to those who are teaching it and those who are studying it .