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Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's College of Communication and Information, encourages young people to keep this fight against racism going and to not let up.
I wonder, how do I decide how to act in recognition of that disturbing dynamic? Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., director of research strategic initiatives in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.
When black Americans watched George Floyd being killed by a white police officer, they saw themselves and their family members. The unrelenting series of events that black Americans have witnessed before and after Floyd’s killing is , which at its core is racism, says ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.
George Floyd's death focused light on what had been America’s ugly secret, the killing of black men by law enforcement officers at a rate far greater than any other race. Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and ¹ú²úÂ×Àí alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí brought home the gold after this year’s Akron ADDY Awards, with both professionals and students being recognized for their work. The ADDYs, put on by the Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, celebrate the area’s best creative work in advertising.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the ¹ú²úÂ×Àí community addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.
Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí in September 1970 as a student. Nearly 50 years later, he is an associate professor at the university.
Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Mike Daniels shares his insight.
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. ¹ú²úÂ×Àí is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí has won the Mid-American Conference’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for women’s sports award for the first time in school history.
University and student leaders share their personal insights into America's current unrest and whether protests will lead to lasting change.
Tayjua Hines, president of Black United Students at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, shares this student perspective about racism in our country and says now is the time to enact change.
Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's interim vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, and chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, offers her insights in current unrest in America.
Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, says civil disturbances of the kind witnessed since the death of George Floyd represent moments of opportunity for societies.
A ¹ú²úÂ×Àí student is gaining recognition for a photo she took that captures an African American Cleveland police officer shedding a tear as he came face to face with demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis Police custody.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí student-athletes conquered the unprecedented challenge of completing the final months of the spring term via remote classes by posting the highest term grade point average (3.563) in athletics department history. All 17 programs posted a term GPA of 3.1 or better with 14 setting a new term record.
On June 1, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí was approved to move forward with the purchase of $143,233 worth of equipment through the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s Regionally Aligned Priorities in Delivering Skills (RAPIDS 4) program.
¹ú²úÂ×Àí is committed to making a college education affordable for all students and their families. Over the last two years, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí has dedicated an additional $2 million for need-based aid.
Today’s Flashes of Inspiration comes from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Football’s Head Coach Sean Lewis, who delivers a pep talk about how to make it through uncertain, challenging times.
