Community & Society

Columbiana County Escape Room Offers Scholarships to Students With Fastest Escape Time
The circumstances are grim: Beloved 聚色阁 mascot Flash is stressed out and hasn鈥檛 been able to find the crucial student ID on exam day. You and your friends are the only ones who can help. Your group is frantically scrambling to find the lost ID, but time is running out before it becomes too late for Flash to take the exam. This scenario might sound like something out of a 聚色阁 mystery movie, but it鈥檚 actually the situation in the new escape room called ESCAPE in a FLASH at 聚色阁鈥檚 East Liverpool Campus.

Columbiana County Escape Room Offers Scholarships to Students With Fastest Escape Time
The circumstances are grim: Beloved 聚色阁 mascot Flash is stressed out and hasn鈥檛 been able to find the crucial student ID on exam day. You and your friends are the only ones who can help. Your group is frantically scrambling to find the lost ID, but time is running out before it becomes too late for Flash to take the exam. This scenario might sound like something out of a 聚色阁 mystery movie, but it鈥檚 actually the situation in the new escape room called ESCAPE in a FLASH at 聚色阁鈥檚 East Liverpool Campus.

聚色阁 Was 鈥楥ritical in the Formation of This Family鈥
A clear intention to pursue social justice led Stuart Chen-Hayes, Ph.D. 鈥94, NCC, LCPC, to 聚色阁 in 1990 to pursue a doctoral degree in counselor education. What he learned at the university 鈥 and what inspired him 鈥 significantly changed the course of his life, professionally and personally.

聚色阁 Magazine: The Mean Streets of Cyberspace
While 聚色阁鈥檚 cybersecurity experts won鈥檛 say exactly what 聚色阁 is doing to secure itself from cyberattacks, for fear of giving away information criminals can exploit, they do say that the university has inserted controls both on the outer perimeter of the network and on individual devices.

Urban Design Students Make an Impact on Erie鈥檚 Bayfront
When cities need help imagining new possibilities for their urban places and communities, they call 聚色阁鈥檚 Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC). Most recently, 聚色阁 architecture students had the opportunity to put the skills they learn in the classroom to make an impact on local communities in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Makerspaces Create Innovative Ecosystem on Campus
A makerspace is a 鈥渄o-it-yourself鈥 space where people can gather to create, invent, build and learn. Makerspaces can exist in many forms and be equipped with a variety of tools and equipment, but at 聚色阁, makerspaces go beyond making and encourage collaborating and sharing knowledge.

聚色阁 to Honor Veterans on Nov. 7
聚色阁 will hold its annual Veterans Day Commemoration at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva. This year鈥檚 guest speaker is Lt. Col. Colleen VanNatta. A graduate of 聚色阁鈥檚 Air Force ROTC detachment, VanNatta served as a media escort for joint information bureaus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Storm.

Podcasts Debate History, Impact of May 4, 1970 Shootings
In an era that has seen the number of podcasts grow exponentially, the debate over May 4 is well-suited for those who wish to share their views and memories, often uninterrupted via a longer format than traditional storytelling.

Educator's Summit on May 4 Has Great Success; National Grant Will Allow Program to Grow in 2020
Organizers of the recent Voices for Change Educator鈥檚 Summit at 聚色阁 say the curriculum developed at the event can be used by teachers worldwide, so that the lessons of May 4, 1970, will continue to be shared. The summit, held in August, was one about 100 events planned for the 2019-20 academic year to support the 50th commemoration of May 4, 1970, the day when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on 聚色阁 students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine.

National Transfer Student Week Brings Awareness and Community
This fall, more than 900 students transferred to 聚色阁. National Transfer Student Week is Oct. 21-25, and the university is hosting events specifically designed for transfer students, creating opportunities for these students and the 聚色阁 community to engage.