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At �鶹ӰԺ State , Golden Flashes are known to take care of other Golden Flashes. With the pandemic looming over the school year, more than 100 �鶹ӰԺ State faculty, staff and administrators checked in on first-year students over the phone last November to talk about their well-being and pathways for success during their first semester.

More than 2,000 area residents, including some �鶹ӰԺ employees, received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine March 23, during a mass vaccination event at the �鶹ӰԺ State Field House. 

You may have heard it said, “when hard times come, notice those who remain, and the ones who disappear.” Nursing instructors are in a position to see this scenario playing out in the lives of their students at �鶹ӰԺ at Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center.

City and university leaders emphasized the need to vaccinate the campus community during a recent virtual town hall meeting. 

Employees from �鶹ӰԺ’s Child Development Center are among a growing list of groups from the university who recently “flashed their arms” and got vaccinated against COVID-19.

�鶹ӰԺ will hold in-person commencement ceremonies in May for the Spring Class of 2021 and will welcome back all 2020 alumni for an in-person graduation ceremony during Homecoming Weekend this fall.

Four new middle school teachers started the school year with high hopes and big dreams, ready to establish their classrooms, teach dynamically and build community with their young students through daily, face-to-face interaction. Instead, they have encountered empty classrooms and computer icons rather than students’ faces. Recent graduates from �鶹ӰԺ State Geauga’s Middle Childhood Education (MCED) program share their stories of first-year teaching from the COVID classroom.

Behind the scenes last spring, American Academy faculty and staff worked swiftly and efficiently to convert the program to remote learning.  

In the course Community Health Nursing, Taryn Burhanna’s students are required to complete 60 clinical hours and eight laboratory simulation hours. Burhanna, community health nursing coordinator, wanted to ensure students in this course could get their hours and gain real-life experience by tapping into coronavirus relief efforts on campus.

As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches a one-year mile marker, the temptation and opportunity to socialize, party, and indulge in public events grows increasingly stronger. Associate Professor Clarissa Thompson received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to reinforce the dangers of the virus to the public.