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Dear 91�㽶��Ƶ University Staff, As we approach the beginning of our spring semester, we continue to closely monitor the ongoing surge of COVID-19. The health and safety of our community remains our top priority as we prepare to welcome students to our campuses. The university has several COVID-19 prevention committees that include experts from our College of Public Health. Our strategy, outlined below, for safely starting the 2022 Spring Semester is based on the input and advice from these committees and experts from our local health departments as well as the Centers for Disease Contr...

Recreation and Wellness Membership Options for Kent and Regional Campus Employees  Faculty and staff who sign up for an auto-debit or payroll deduction membership to the Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent campus between January 1 and January 31, 2022, will incur no membership payments until mid-February! Learn more via the SRWC membership website, and visit the Pro Shop at the Rec Center in January to start your membership.  New option for regional campus employees  91�㽶��Ƶ regional campus faculty and...

My name is Lauren Falter, and I am a graduate student at 91�㽶��Ƶ studying Speech-Language Pathology. I recently earned my undergraduate degree from 91�㽶��Ƶ with a major in Speech Pathology and Audiology and two minors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Education. I reflect positively on my time at 91�㽶��Ƶ and as a student researcher in the Swallowing Physiology and Rehabilitation Research (SPARR) Laboratory on campus. Throughout high school, I pondered careers with educational and medical focuses, and I found the field of Speech-Language Pathology to be the perfect mix...

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  I took an architecture survey class upstairs – cementing my life of writing about design and the built environment. My wife of 33 years, Heidi Johnson-Wright (B.A. in English, Kent, 1982) lived next door at Prentice Hall.  My wife uses a wheelchair for mobility and did then. The seeds of my activism for people with disabilities and all marginalized folks were planted right there – in the sacred ground between Taylor and Prentice, where May 4th observances take place. My first job was with the Columbus Dispatch (I zeroed in only on central Ohio where my wife was starting la...

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced students and faculty at 91�㽶��Ƶ to learn and work remotely in spring of 2020, students in the School of Media and Journalism were at risk of losing internships. As a response to the developing situation, the School organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs.   Fast-forward a year-and-a-half, and the NewsLab contin...

A degree from 91�㽶��Ƶ’s School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses — and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, ’10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to make her mark at Atlantis Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.   Spletzer met the man who would become her husband — an exchange student from Germany — during her senior year, so “it was inevitable that I ended up living and working outside of the U.S.”  But she began her career locally at...

East Liverpool took home the traveling plaque by winning the sixth annual 91�㽶��Ƶ Columbiana County Classic with a 66-50 score over Salem High School on the Quakers home court. With the win, the Potters tied the series at 3-3. Representatives from the Salem and East Liverpool campuses greeted fans by handing out mini magnetic flashlights at the door and provided t-shirts that the cheerleaders tossed into the stands throughout the game. All players, coaches and cheerleaders also received shirts. Always a favorite, Flash cheered and danced with fans of all ages. At halftime, four student...

The second-year students of the occupational therapy assistant program from 91�㽶��Ƶ East Liverpool took a lot of what they are learning and incorporated it into activities for children at the Lighthouse Kids Learning Center in Wellsville. The facility provides daycare services for infants, toddlers and preschool-aged youngsters. The children range in age from six weeks to five years old. OTA students designed and presented hour-long programs for each age group that met the groups’ development levels while interacting with the daycare teachers. This provided the 91�㽶��Ƶ students wit...