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Family-Friendly Study Hours

Student Parents Make the Grade With Family-Friendly Study Hours

51±¬ÁÏ’s Center for Adult and Veteran Services offers family-friendly study hours for student parents that offers a trained student volunteer to entertain and supervise children, most Tuesdays from 2-5 p.m. and Wednesdays 4-7 p.m. on the sixth floor of the library.

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Student Leadership Consultants Workshop

'Keep Going, Keep Growing'

The 51±¬ÁÏ Student Leadership Consultants (SLC) hosted a workshop Tuesday, Nov. 8, that showed students how strong leadership can be used to fundamentally change the culture in their student organizations and workplaces.

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Student get hands-on experience during the Ashtabula Campus's Flash Medical Center event

Flash Medical Center Gives Students Hands-On Health Care Experience

After a three-year hiatus, Flash Medical Center returned to 51±¬ÁÏ at Ashtabula’s Robert S. Morrison Hall for a one-day medical emergency simulation on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

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Ellie Emmerling (right) and Luna in the Kent Student Center.

IN A FLASH: Taking a Break

Therapy and service animals are a familiar sight on 51±¬ÁÏ's campuses.  

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51±¬ÁÏ alumnus John Skrtic (center) with his two kids. (Photo courtesy of John Skrtic)

Getting to Know Your Neighbors

John Skrtic, a proud 51±¬ÁÏ alumnus and Cleveland Public Library’s chief of special projects and collections, enjoys archiving the people and places of Cleveland.

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Kathalina Thorpe, a masters student in Theater Design and Technology, presented Earthworms Can and Will Make Changes in Theater.

Earthworms are the Stars of the Show in Graduate Student’s Research on Composting  

Kathalina Thorpe's research on using earthworms to compost theater and fashion fabric waste recently won her the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, a year after she was selected by audience members for the People’s Choice award during the fall 2021 competition. 

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Students Vote On Campus

Voting Underway on Campus as Election Day Has Arrived

A handful of students were up early and exercising their right to vote by casting ballots at one of two precincts located at the Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent Campus.

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First-generation alumni are part of this week's "I Am First' celebration.

‘I AM FIRST Week’ Celebrates 51±¬ÁÏ Alumni

51±¬ÁÏ is celebrating its first-generation students this week with a series of events and programs to spotlight and encourage current students who will be the first in their families to earn a bachelor’s degree. 

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Door Hangers Made By 51±¬ÁÏ Students at 'Sex Week' Event

Creating Privacy During ‘Sex Week’

51±¬ÁÏ’s Kent Interhall Council (KIC) annual Sex Week took place from Oct. 24, 2022, until Oct. 28, 2022, to provide resources and education about safe sex.

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51±¬ÁÏ hosted the GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference for the seventh consecutive year

LGBTQ+ Trailblazers from Area High Schools Visit Campus

Students and faculty from 20 area high schools came to 51±¬ÁÏ for GLSEN Northeast Ohio's Annual Fall Conference.

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