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Queer Britain opened as the UK’s first LGBTQ museum in London in May and its inaugural exhibition “We Are Queer Britain” won a Museums Change Lives Award (Best Small Museum Project) in November from the UK-based Museums Association. This first installation featured The Queer Pandemic Project, an international collaboration between Queer Britain, University of London, and 91�㽶��Ƶ University. The award celebrates UK museums that deliver social impact in order to promote work that supports communities and engages with contemporary issues. “Queer Pandemic,” an oral-history installation, focu...

The keyword is collaboration. At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, a new educational partnership between 91�㽶��Ƶ University and Geauga County’s Berkshire Local School District took shape with the opening of the new pre-K-12th-grade Berkshire school building on the 91�㽶��Ƶ Geauga Campus in Burton. Effectively creating shared resources and enhanced learning opportunities for all students along life’s timeline, PRIME (Partners in Rural Innovative Models of Education) is the guiding principle behind the innovative K‐16 approach toward education in Geauga County.    As the...

Starting in Spring 2023, the Department of Geography will have a continuous study abroad program for the first time. Both Environmental Studies majors and Geography majors can take classes for their major while spending either a semester in Florence, participating in the Florence Summer Institute, or both.   Course offerings will include Conservation of Natural Resources, Global Climate Change, Geography of Wine, as well as opportunities for an internship.  Spring and Fall courses will be taught by local affiliated faculty in Italy, while summer sessions will be taught by Kent Sta...

KENT, Ohio – As she prepares to graduate from 91�㽶��Ƶ in December, senior Sophia Edmunds reflects on an unexpected achievement that capped off her senior year. On Dec. 1, Edmunds – a senior fashion merchandising major and marketing minor – took first place in the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Idea Pitch competition for her idea, REVEIL. The competition, hosted by the John S. and Marlene J. Brinzo Center for Entrepreneurship, helps 91�㽶��Ƶ students develop their startup companies and pitch their business ideas to a panel of executive judges to...

KENT, Ohio – Amy Grincewicz, Ph.D., Director of Instructional Design at the 91�㽶��Ƶ Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, was recently recognized by Quality Matters with the Quality Matters (QM) Directors’ Award for Exceptional Service to Quality Matters. According to the organization’s news release, “Dr. Grincewicz has made a major mark on the University’s deepening investment in quality assurance, bringing QM practices and certification to several courses through her roles as a QM-certified Master Reviewer and facilitator of three QM professional developmen...

Tax season is around the corner and with it will come W-2 and 1095-C forms. Electing to receive your forms electronically will: Allow you to receive your tax forms sooner Help 91�㽶��Ƶ advance our sustainability goals Save the University printing and postage costs Enter you in a drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Payroll and Human Resources will award two gift cards on Dec. 16 and two gift cards on Jan. 13. To be automatically entered into each drawing: Student employees must opt into electronic W2s by noon on Dec. 16 or Jan. 13. Faculty and staff must opt into elec...