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CHATTANOOGA, TN (mocsnews.com)- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga offer plenty of extracurricular activities or clubs for students to engage in, as well as participate in campus life. One club that is found on campus that will help any Communication major students get their feet wet in news, is Mocs …

By Stephen Lloyd WASHINGTON D.C. (mocsnews.com) – Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been around since the 1970s and has recently entered the political spotlight in 2020 with the former president, Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13950 titled, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”. Which has since been revoked by the current president, …

By Jessica Coco | Chattanooga, TENN | mocsnews.com               For those who attend a four-year university, school has been the focal point of life for 16 years give or take. We are used to performing well, getting grades, and moving on. It is a cycle that has a timeline and …

By: Ashtyn Frazier WASHINGTON, D.C.(mocsnews.com)- The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the mental health crisis for college students across the U.S. According to a survey by Best Colleges, 90% of students believe that they have experienced worsening mental health symptoms since the pandemic.  Student doing virtual school from home. College students …

By KIMBERLY MERFERT High school and college students spend most of their time in school figuring out the best ways to cram eight months’ worth of education into three days of studying. After the unavoidable procrastination leaves and the sheer panic of reality sets in, students are racing against the …

By Macy Wilbanks  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (mocsnews.com) It’s not news that COVID-19 has had an exponential effect on our lives in the past year and a half. Our daily routines have been discarded and reformed to mold into a new world.  The US is already starting to function again. With over 42.5% of the adult US population fully vaccinated …

By Stephen Lloyd Kayla Stissel, a first-year student at the University of Florida, gets her first COVID-19 vaccine from UF nursing student Taylor Collins at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville on April 5, 2021. Brad McClenny ATLANTA, GA (mocsnews.com) – As nearly half of the adult United States population …

CHATTANOOGA (mocsnews.com) – The UT System is set to return to normal operations this fall, and officials have been met with varying levels of support on their method to achieve this goal. In a February 10 announcement, the UT System President Randy Boyd revealed their plan to resume “a traditional …

From a campus release: UTC has received the COVID-19 Vaccine and is ready to open scheduling for the doses available.   The first UTC COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic will be held on Friday, March 19, 2021 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Collins Street Annex (where Routine Testing Center is located). The COVID-19 vaccine we have available for this day will be the Moderna vaccine.  …

By: Allyce Robinson CHATTANOOGA, TN (mocsnews.com)  — The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is participating in a random routine COVID test program. Each week 1,000 campus community members of students, faculty, and staff are randomly selected to be tested for COVID-19 by the Abbott BinaxNow rapid antigen tests. This only qualifies …