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For 200 million people in the world with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), community can be hard to find and establish. With the help of Best Buddies International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to gathering volunteers and support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, friendships and a sense of belonging are much more accessible. While it’s an international organization, Best Buddies is also making an impact in Northeast Ohio and at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/...

¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Board of Trustees kicked off the 2026-2027 academic year with President Todd Diacon’s report that the university finished Fiscal 2026 with a balanced budget, avoiding drawing on its reserves, and that the inflation-adjusted tuition at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí combined with Ohio’s other public universities is actually 13% cheaper today than it was 20 years ago.Diacon observed that numerous colleges and universities in Ohio, and scores of universities nationally, are not able to deliver end-of-year balanced budgets.“Our delivering a balanced budget for the fiscal year that just ended i...