Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center, announced those students named to the Spring 200 President and Dean’s lists. To qualify for the President’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester. Congratulations! President’s List Names and City First Name Last Name City ...
Note: The following essay was crafted by Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and ¹ú²úÂ×Àí alumnus, who graduated in 1979 with a journalism degree. ------------- As a journalist covering the news, I’m privileged to have a front row seat to history as it unfolds. Indeed, these last several weeks have been notable moments in America, now a nation in crisis, the scab of racial injustice and police brutality snatched off the wound of race in America, a wound that has never been allowed to fully heal. But in the midst of a national nightmare the...
Members of the Ashtabula Community, As the Dean of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Ashtabula, I want to update you on our plans for the Fall semester. During this time of uncertainty, we are focused on providing support and resources to our students and community to move Ashtabula County forward. Our staff is working diligently and in concert with the Kent campus to make sure we have procedures in place to welcome our students back in the safest way possible. We have faculty and staff spending the summer researching and learning ways to make instruction, regardless of the environment,...
¹ú²úÂ×Àí College of Nursing Assistant Professor, Amy Petrinec, Ph.D., RN, recently received a $50,000 two-year grant through the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) to research family caregivers who experience a phenomenon called post intensive care syndrome family (PICS-F) that may occur after a loved one has spent time in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU). Through her research, Dr. Petrinec hopes to discover if regularly using a cognitive behavioral app will lead to a decrease in PICS-F symptoms for adult family caregivers serving as the primary decision maker for a lo...
Dear iSchool Students, During the past months, our country has witnessed the senseless murder of George Floyd and the killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. Many members of our University and College communities, particularly African-American students, have witnessed or have been directly impacted by hateful and racially motivated actions, leading to feelings of anger and sadness. I share these feelings and my heart goes out to all who have suffered as a consequence of racism and injustice. Those of us who have not been directly impacted by hateful and racially motivated incidents ma...
Dear Emerging Media & Technology Students, Throughout my time at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, our students have called for change in the unequal treatment of Black communities. They have honored our university with their activism, their eloquent cries for justice and peace. In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown Jr. by Ferguson police, students in my first course at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí focused their semester-long project on inequalities in policing and violence in Black communities. They created an online campaign to advocate for education and change by connecting their friends and family to onl...
We are all now, truly, witnesses. The events of 2020 stand at a watershed, with core values, careers and families facing stresses that challenge our souls and our social systems. As part of an older generation, I remember the 1960s as a parallel era of great social change. Today, however, in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis May 25, the ubiquitous video feeds from countless cellphones across media and social channels have lay bare the anguish and the anger for all to see. In full view, peaceful protest has spread across this land, punctuated by law enforcement overreach a...
