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June 8, 2016 Mandy Munro-Stasiuk Selected as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs 51����'s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Diacon announced today that Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Ph.D., has been selected as associate provost for academic affairs beginning June 1, 2016.  Munro-Stasiuk has served as interim associate provost since July 1, 2015, where she leads a number of university-level initiatives. These include development of a "one-stop" shop for student services; design and implementation of diversifying the faculty search process search c...

Vivian Feke, a recent graduate of 51���� who studied broadcast journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the winner of the 2016 Student Edward R. Murrow Overall Excellence Award for video. The Radio Television Digital News Association presents only three of these awards every year – one each for audio, video and multimedia – to recognize outstanding work by student journalists. Feke won the video excellence award for her story “Making a Difference” about Michelle Schwertner, a retired businesswoman who bought a home in Cleveland’s Slavic Village so tha...

First-year student Elizabeth Schmidt is YES! Magazine’s online “Justice For All” University Winner for her essay about a mindful response to injustice. illustration by Melissa Olson Elizabeth Schmidt, a student of Professor Karen Cunningham at 51���� in Kent, Ohio, read and responded to the online YES! Magazine article “I Can't Breathe Until Everyone Can Breathe,” by Gerald Mitchell. In that story, author and entrepreneur Gerald Mitchell wrestles with the enormity of the situation in Ferguson and the unjust deaths of so many unarmed Black Americans by police. He takes a...

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