NICA

• CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa., Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Annexus Health, Inc., the leading healthcare technology company that is revolutionizing the patient access journey through its innovative solutions, today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with the National Infusion Center Association (NICA) to help infusion providers improve access for their patients.
• The nonprofit trade association is dedicated to ensuring that infusion centers remain a safe, more efficient, and more cost-effective alternative to hospital settings for consistent, high-quality care.
• "We appreciate the dedication of partners like Annexus Health and their commitment to offering innovative products and services to infusion providers so they may better serve their patients.
• NICA's partnership with Annexus Health will make it easier for providers and patients to connect with these needed programs."

• Uptiv Health is in-network in Michigan, and its flagship infusion care center in Westland, Michigan is open for referrals.
• The infusion care market in the U.S. is estimated to be more than $100 billion with approximately 3.2 million patients served annually .
• Traditional infusion settings have been struggling to keep up with demand , while at-home infusion therapy presents its own challenges.
• Uptiv was built at Redesign Health by Torben Nielsen and the founding team, and has raised $7.5 million in seed funding.

• In the same week across the Tasman, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington announced savage cuts to its theatre and music programs.
• Whatever the rationale, they speak to a lack of imagination and creativity in the administration of the contemporary university.

An independent institution

• The board declared the aims of the proposal could not “be fulfilled by a course which conformed to indispensable university standards”.
• After this rejection, a similar proposal progressed at the University of New South Wales, with one critical difference.

Intellectual rigour

• Universities were sceptical of the intellectual rigour of artistic practice in the institution, both in prospective students and in staff.
• Universities were also concerned about the lack of funding or teaching space for the higher intensity and longer hours demanded over more traditional tertiary subjects.
• One exception stands out: the long-running actor training offered at Flinders University began in 1971, just five years after the university opened in 1966.

Merging with the universities

• These colleges sat between TAFE institutions and universities, focusing on more vocational disciplines and awarding certificates, diplomas, and eventually degrees.
• In the early 1990s, the Dawkins Reforms merged some technical and vocational providers with universities, and granted university status to others.
• This brought more arts training programs into universities.
• These new universities were beginning to articulate an academic identity.

The value of arts training

• This false binary discounts the ways in which knowledge is made by and held in the body, and the rigorous research-informed training cultures that have developed in university performing arts programs since the 1990s.
• Too often, the universities themselves aren’t able to take on the very acts of imagination that characterise the training offered to students.
• Far from being expensive follies incompatible with the institution, arts training programs act as the shopfront for the university.

• IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chargel , a one-of-a-kind athletic gel drink designed to meet the unique energy needs of cyclists, today announced its partnership with the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) .
• NICA achieves this mission by providing community-based cycling programs that embody its core values of fun, inclusivity, equity, respect, and community.
• Through this partnership, NICA student-athletes across the organization will have the chance to sample Chargel.
• "We're thrilled to help support their mission and fuel young riders with our caffeine-free gel drinks no matter where their cycling adventures take them."