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WEWS features 91ÊÓÆµ's Career Closet

Interview in Your Best 91ÊÓÆµ Style

A good education and a solid résumé aren’t always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of 91ÊÓÆµ faculty and staff members have come together to establish the 91ÊÓÆµ Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire …

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A 91ÊÓÆµ student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

91ÊÓÆµ Student Blankets Struggling Children with Warmth

A 91ÊÓÆµ student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

Tags: Student Life , Featured Story , College of Education and Human Services

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Photo by Bob Christy '95

One University Commencement

Dix Stadium was the place to be at 10 a.m. on May 13, 2017, as graduates from all campuses gathered for 91ÊÓÆµâ€™s first One University Commencement Ceremony, and their friends and families joined together to celebrate their achievements.  “This approach enables us to honor all graduates f…

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Photo by Bob Christy '95

Live and Learn

This fall marks the beginning of the second year of 91ÊÓÆµâ€™s living-learning community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) students and their allies in the recently renovated Korb Hall.  While Residence Services has offered gender-inclusive housin…

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Learning to Connect

To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to 91ÊÓÆµ read the same book, write an essay in response to reading prompts and then talk about it in discussion groups when they get to campus.  This year’s Common Reading book, selected by the C…

Tags: Student Life , University News , Community & Society , Global Reach

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Photo by Melissa Olson

Humanizing the Heroin Crisis

As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, 91ÊÓÆµ sophomore public relations major Emelia Sherin found a way to help people better understand what’s going on, who is affected—and what we can do about it.

By Emelia Sherin, as told to Jan Senn / 91ÊÓÆµ Magazine

Tags: Student Life , Health , population health

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The 2017 Summer Advantage Program participants and staff stand outside 91ÊÓÆµâ€™s University College.

Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

To increase retention rates – and ultimately graduation rates – 91ÊÓÆµ created its first-ever Summer Advantage Program through University College’s Academic Diversity Outreach department.

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Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

91ÊÓÆµ students move clothing into Olsen Hall during freshman move-in day.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, 91ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

Tags: University Housing , Student Life , Movers and Groovers , Success Story

Kent Campus

91ÊÓÆµ volunteers help move freshman into their new residence halls during the annual service program, called Movers and Groovers.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, 91ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

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Kent Campus

Pictured are 91ÊÓÆµ at Trumbull's Program Coordinator Michelle Adkins, Dean Lance Grahn, coach Bill Hess and sophomore Briana Ellwood.

91ÊÓÆµ Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program

91ÊÓÆµ at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.

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91ÊÓÆµ Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program