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Ohio Gov. John Kasich has appointed a new trustee to the ����ɫ��ҹ University Board of Trustees. Kasich named Shawn M. Riley of Gates Mills, Ohio, to a nine-year term as a trustee. Riley’s appointment began May 17, 2016, and ends May 16, 2025.  Riley serves as president-elect of McDonald Hopkins LLC and will become president of the firm on Oct. 1, 2016. He will oversee 140 attorneys at six office locations. Currently, he leads the firm’s Cleveland office.  Riley joined McDonald Hopkins in 1995 and has served in a variety of roles, including founder and head of the firm’s Business ...

Following a national search, ����ɫ��ҹ University has selected Shay Davis Little, Ph.D., to serve as vice president for student affairs. Little has served as interim vice president for student affairs since Aug. 1, 2015. She began serving as the permanent vice president for student affairs on May 14. Little will lead ����ɫ��ҹ’s Division of Student Affairs and institutional efforts aimed toward enhancing the engaged co-curricular lives of all ����ɫ��ҹ students within the eight-campus system. The vice president for student affairs directs staff in a wide variety of student affairs function...

On Tuesday, May 24, ����ɫ��ҹ University and the ����ɫ��ҹ Legislative Delegation hosted a Legislative Reception in Columbus, Ohio, to thank the Ohio General Assembly for their support over the last year. The most recent win for the university includes more than $23.5 million in the Capital Budget Bill, which will fund projects on all eight ����ɫ��ҹ campuses. The event was co-hosted by the co-chairs of the Kent Legislative Delegation, State Sen. John Eklund (District 18) and State Rep. Kathleen Clyde (District 75). The university, demonstrating its vast footprint and academic and economi...

����ɫ��ҹ University at Salem horticulture students are continuing to help make an important historical landmark in East Liverpool more attractive and inviting to local motorists. Students in the landscape construction class, taught by Stan Jones on the Salem Campus, were back in East Liverpool where they worked on the second phase of a beautification project at the Point of Beginning – an often overlooked registered national historic landmark that had fallen into a state of neglect in recent years. The class used wooden beams and 18 tons of rock to create an area for visitors to walk to th...

Danielle Sarver Coombs, Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information, feels that women have to run their campaigns differently than their male counterparts. She recently shared her views with the Akron Beacon Journal for a story about Hillary Clinton's selection as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. “ ‘You have to smile more. Don’t be shrill. You’re yelling,’ ” Coombs said in the story. “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump can go out and yell, and it’s not a problem.” Read the entire story on Ohio.com Coombs studies electoral politics, sp...