Community Impact
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been awarded a new Department of Justice reentry grant to make college enrollment and other support available for people starting over after incarceration.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Surplus Store helps the university liquidate assets in a sustainable and responsible way while offering unique items at low prices.
Summit Professor of Learning Technologies Rick Ferdig serves as coordinator for the Northeast Ohio chapter of the nonprofit Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry, born out of one man’s mission to “transform a God-given resource of deer and livestock into food for those in need.â€
The Wick family has a long history of philanthropy at Â鶹ÊÓƵ that began in 1984 when brothers Bob and Walt Wick first established scholarships to support undergraduate poets at the university. This most recent gift of $1 million brings the family’s total lifetime commitment to the university to more than $3.5 million.
The final Â鶹ÊÓƵ Farmers' Market of the fall semester moves indoors, inside the DI Hub, on Nov. 14.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is celebrating Native American Heritage Month with events throughout November.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Todd Diacon joined the Marching Golden Flashes and fans at Dix Stadium to cheer on our team at the annual Freeze Out Game.
Planting bulbs on Daffodil Hill has become part of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's annual Veteran's Day Commemoration.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ community came together to celebrate its values and honor fallen veterans on Daffodil Hill.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumna and former nurse Kacie Gikonyo has founded the Death Doula Collective, a nationwide group for death doulas, and plans to establish her own death doula school in the Cleveland-Akron area to provide clinical hands-on training.