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We are here to help. That was one of the main messages international students at Â鶹ӰԺ heard during a held July 9 to help answer questions and share the university’s response to a recent announcement by the federal government regarding Fall 2020 international student enrollment requirements. 

Wash Your Hands Frequently

Â鶹ӰԺ State is just seven weeks away from move in. To count down the return of students, faculty and staff for the start of the fall semester, the university will review one Flashes Safe Seven principle each week. This week, we focus on Wash Your Hands Frequently.

Maria Cegledy had a short but distinguished senior year.

Not every day will be the best day and things might not always go exactly as planned, but it really is about the journey and the people standing next to you through it all, Maria Cegledy said.

Students walk along the Lester A. Lefton Esplanade on the Â鶹ӰԺ Campus

Â鶹ӰԺ State Interim Senior Vice President and Provost Melody Tankersley, Ph.D., and Vice President for Enrollment Management Mary Parker, Ed.D., recently shared updates about academics and enrollment, respectively, while engaging with the university community.

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Curbside Pickup is Â鶹ӰԺ Libraries’ new contactless service that allows users to check out materials from its collection while libraries on the Â鶹ӰԺ and Regional campuses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Eric Mansfield in Washington, D.C.

Eric Mansfield examines what it means to be an ally in the fight against racism. Mansfield is executive director of university media relations in Â鶹ӰԺ State's University Communications and Marketing department and an adjunct public relations instructor with the College of Communication and Information.

Jhariah Wadkins is a senior communications studies major at Â鶹ӰԺ State.

Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in Â鶹ӰԺ's College of Communication and Information, encourages young people to keep this fight against racism going and to not let up.

Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., speaks at Project GRAD Akron’s 13th Annual Achieving Dreams Celebration Gala.

I wonder, how do I decide how to act in recognition of that disturbing dynamic? Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., director of research strategic initiatives in Â鶹ӰԺ’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.

Professor teaching in Zoom class in front of tv screens

Â鶹ӰԺ at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

HR and DEI departments must offer black employees relevant programs to deal with trauma from racial injustice.

When black Americans watched George Floyd being killed by a white police officer, they saw themselves and their family members. The unrelenting series of events that black Americans have witnessed before and after Floyd’s killing is , which at its core is racism, says Â鶹ӰԺ State Psychological Sciences Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.