healthcare professionals.
This role drives student recruitment by conducting localized school visits, managing dual-credit registration workflows, and organizing hands-on, large-scale healthcare preview events. By guiding students through foundational academic requirements and experiential opportunities, the Coordinator bridges the critical transition from high school into EOU?s healthcare degree programs.
Taking a proactive, student-centered approach to community engagement, the Coordinator builds strong relationships with regional school districts, counselors, and educators. Through tailored outreach and direct student support, the Coordinator ensures that pre-college initiatives successfully inspire and prepare geographically isolated students for healthcare careers.
The Rural Health Pathways Coordinator is essential to advancing Eastern Oregon University?s commitment to expanding educational access and supporting rural healthcare workforce development. By creating accessible pathways for local youth and strengthening university-school connections across the region, the Coordinator directly contributes to student enrollment, higher education access, and long-term regional health and vitality.
This is a full-time, limited-duration position that is contingent upon continued grant funding.
Set in an historic small town, nestled at the base of the Blue Mountains and surrounded by fertile farmlands and breathtaking mountain wilderness, Eastern Oregon University is a great place to work. Eastern Oregon University is committed to students with roots in the inter-mountain rural East. A small intimate academic community, Eastern Oregon was ranked number two in the nation by Consumers Digest magazine as "Best Value for Public Colleges and Universities". With only two thousand students on campus, small intimate classes, and 350 faculty and staff who are passionate about undergraduate and graduate education and serving our rural region, EOU is a very special place.The University guides student inquiry through integrated, high-quality liberal arts and professional programs, including: 23 bachelor's degrees and partnership programs offering two bachelor's degrees in nursing and five bachelor's degrees in agriculture; more than 40 different minors; multiple pre-professional programs; and three master's degrees in business, teaching and science in education. Moreover, EOU is recognized as a national leader in distance education, offering extended opportunities for over two thousand additional students at 13 centers throughout the state and beyond.Working in an environment where ideas are important, where critical thinking and collaboration are valued, can be exciting, rewarding and challenging. At EOU, you'll work with bright, diverse, and dedicated people, all of whom share a deeply personal commitment to advance and sustain a very special learning environment.