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The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has remade its former sports medicine program into exercise science, a field that will provide students with more options for their undergraduate degrees. The program has removed classes that crossed over with the university’s athletic training program and created new classes to explore health careers, study the human body in motion and assess and prescribe wellness plans. Dr. Mark Kelley, assistant professor and director of the new exercise science program, explained that the program is meant for students who have a variety of goals, from personal training or wellness coaching to going on to graduate programs in occupational therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, chiropractic, medicine, physical therapy and more. Teaching some of the new courses will be a new faculty member for the program. A search is currently under way, and the new faculty member will begin teaching in Fall 2015. The multi-discip...

By ANNE HOLLIDAY WESB/WBRR News Director The Bradford Area School District is considering a whistleblower policy that would protect employees who report suspected improper actions by other employees. “The Whistleblower Law provides protection of employees against being discharged or discriminated against by reason of their filing good faith reports with an employer of suspected fraud, financial improprieties, irregularities, or conflicts of interest or cooperating in the investigation of such reports,” the policy states. The Director of Human Resources, currently Sam Johnson, would be the compliance officer. A complaint against the Director of Human Resources would go to the superintendent. The school board is expected to vote on the measure during its next meeting on August 9. Also Monday, the board approved on second consideration the budget for the 2010-11 school year, which, for the ninth straight year, includes no tax increase. In a meeting that lasted less than an hour, the board...