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WEWS features ×ÔοÊÓÆµ's Career Closet

Interview in Your Best ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Style

A good education and a solid résumé aren’t always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of ×ÔοÊÓÆµ faculty and staff members have come together to establish the ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire …

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A ×ÔοÊÓÆµ student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

×ÔοÊÓÆµ Student Blankets Struggling Children with Warmth

A ×ÔοÊÓÆµ student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

Tags: Student Life , Featured Story , College of Education Health and Human Services

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Photo by Bob Christy '95

One University Commencement

Dix Stadium was the place to be at 10 a.m. on May 13, 2017, as graduates from all campuses gathered for ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s first One University Commencement Ceremony, and their friends and families joined together to celebrate their achievements.  “This approach enables us to honor all graduates f…

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Photo by Bob Christy '95

Live and Learn

This fall marks the beginning of the second year of ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s living-learning community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) students and their allies in the recently renovated Korb Hall.  While Residence Services has offered gender-inclusive housin…

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Learning to Connect

To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to ×ÔοÊÓÆµ read the same book, write an essay in response to reading prompts and then talk about it in discussion groups when they get to campus.  This year’s Common Reading book, selected by the C…

Tags: Student Life , University News , Community & Society , Global Reach

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Photo by Melissa Olson

Humanizing the Heroin Crisis

As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, ×ÔοÊÓÆµ sophomore public relations major Emelia Sherin found a way to help people better understand what’s going on, who is affected—and what we can do about it.

By Emelia Sherin, as told to Jan Senn / ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Magazine

Tags: Student Life , Health , population health

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The 2017 Summer Advantage Program participants and staff stand outside ×ÔοÊÓÆµâ€™s University College.

Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

To increase retention rates – and ultimately graduation rates – ×ÔοÊÓÆµ created its first-ever Summer Advantage Program through University College’s Academic Diversity Outreach department.

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Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

×ÔοÊÓÆµ students move clothing into Olsen Hall during freshman move-in day.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, ×ÔοÊÓÆµ faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

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Kent Campus

×ÔοÊÓÆµ volunteers help move freshman into their new residence halls during the annual service program, called Movers and Groovers.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, ×ÔοÊÓÆµ faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

Tags: Department of Residence Services , Student Life , Movers and Groovers

Kent Campus

Pictured are ×ÔοÊÓÆµ at Trumbull's Program Coordinator Michelle Adkins, Dean Lance Grahn, coach Bill Hess and sophomore Briana Ellwood.

×ÔοÊÓÆµ Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program

×ÔοÊÓÆµ at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.

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×ÔοÊÓÆµ Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program