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From mental health on college campuses to forced child labor, students in the School of Communication Studies worked on campaigns across a range of topics during the Spring 2021 semester. Students learned that communication — the spoken word, social media, website content, news — is a powerful tool in advocating for causes, all while learning communication theory, fundamentals and tools. In Communication in a Global Society, taught by Stephanie Danes Smith, students were challenged to develop a social media campaign to help their peers understand a specific human rights issue. In Commun...

From mental health on college campuses to forced child labor, students in the School of Communication Studies worked on campaigns across a range of topics during the Spring 2021 semester. Students learned that communication — the spoken word, social media, website content, news — is a powerful tool in advocating for causes, all while learning communication theory, fundamentals and tools. In Communication in a Global Society, taught by Stephanie Danes Smith, students were challenged to develop a social media campaign to help their peers understand a specific human rights issue. In Commun...

KENT, Ohio – Student entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to a panel of executive judges for $20,000 in cash prizes at the 51������ College of Business Administration’s fifth annual CEBIpitch competition held April 7. Grace Irvin-Dillard, a senior entrepreneurship and pan-African studies major, took first place, earning $10,000 for her company, Touched by Grace. Touched by Grace provides all-natural, handmade personal care products for those with skin sensitivities. Products include facial, body and feminine care items Jonathan Henry, an MBA graduate student, won second plac...

51������ University at Ashtabula senior Jesseca Housel was recently honored as the 2021 Outstanding Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies Senior Award recipient.  A third-year student, Housel’s nomination was selected from hundreds of students in the Department of Sociology throughout the 51������ system. She was presented the award virtually during a recent departmental awards banquet. “It’s such a nice honor and very rewarding; it makes me feel good about the effort that I’ve put into my education,” she said.  “Part of the award is intelligence related, but I could...

Guacamole and chips are frequently on the menu of social gatherings for many 51������ University students, staff and faculty.  However, 51������ President Todd Diacon says that the delicious creamy dip also holds a life lesson about expanding our worldview. “Avocados, salt, garlic and chopped onions go together. It’s natural. It’s self-evident. Well, not so fast,” Diacon said. Diacon said he grew up in Wellington, Kansas, which he described as a small, dusty town on the Kansas-Oklahoma border with a population that trended Hispanic and that allowed him to grow up eating ...

  As seventh graders, 15 local students were directed to the Rising Scholars program (formerly known as the Rural Scholars program) because their teachers detected something special in each of them. Now, six years later, they are each ready to move onto the next phase of their lives: college, trade school, the workplace following completion of the 51������ Columbiana County Rising Scholars program. A graduation celebration was held on the Salem Campus to recognize members of the Rising Scholars program who are each graduating from their respective high schools this spring. Because o...