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����ɫ��ҹ University at Trumbull proudly announces Jennifer Roller, President of The Raymond John Wean Foundation, as its 2016 Spring Commencement speaker. Close to 100 of the more than 225 students graduating this spring will participate in the ceremony, which will be held Friday, May 13 at 6:00 p.m. in Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. in Warren. Roller is the first woman to serve as president of The Raymond John Wean Foundation, a 70 million dollar foundation that seeks to empower residents to create a healthy, vibrant, equitable and economically stable Mahoning Valley. She is also...

����ɫ��ҹ University will hold its Spring 2016 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center, and on Friday, May 20, at Cartwright Hall. ����ɫ��ҹ will confer 4,210 degrees, including 3,067 bachelor’s degrees, 968 master’s degrees, 169 doctoral degrees and six educational specialist degrees.  Across the university’s eight-campus system, 5,226 students will graduate from ����ɫ��ҹ this spring, including those receiving associate degrees. Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m. The 6 p.m. ceremony on Friday...

The ����ɫ��ҹ University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, May 11. The Board is scheduled to convene at 9 a.m. in the Event Space on the first floor of the university’s new Center for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, located at 350 S. Lincoln St. in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-8:45 a.m. in the Board Room on the third floor to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  No committees meetings will be held. The Board will meet as a committee of the whole during the 9 a.m. Board ...

Students from ����ɫ��ҹ East Liverpool’s occupational therapy assistant program gathered at the downtown entrance ramp to the city to help spruce up the “serpentine” landscape of that area by pulling weeds, trimming shrubs, raking mulch and picking up litter. They joined efforts with the East Liverpool-Calcutta Garden Club members, who maintain that area of the city’s landscape. Once finished, the students walked to The Locke House and cleaned up the landscaping and lawn at that location.  # # # Inside Photo: East Liverpool Mayor Ryan Stovall caught up with OTA students who were w...

In 2014, less than four years after Continental and United announced that the airlines were merging operations, the newly expanded United shut down its hub at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Since that time, the number of nonstop flights from the airport has dwindled from 58 to 15 – a nearly 75 percent decrease in two years. The loss of direct access to a long list of destinations across the country was another blow to air travel at nearby large regional airports. In the past decade, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati also lost their hub status. Beginning May 3 and airing on four consecutive Tuesdays, WK...

����ɫ��ҹ University at East Liverpool received a contribution from Heritage Thermal Services that will benefit the students in its physical therapist assistant program by giving them the latest technology for learning bedside documentation. Four laptop computers and four special carts were purchased by Heritage Thermal that will allow the students to learn point-of-care documentation as part of their curriculum. “We are thrilled that Heritage Thermal could provide our program with these point-of-treatment documentation stations,” noted Dr. Darryl Hancock, associate professor of physical th...

The ����ɫ��ҹ Salem Campus paid tribute to community members, faculty, students and staff who are U.S. military veterans during a flag raising ceremony at the new front entrance to the building. Under a beautiful blue sky and with a crisp breeze, members of the Salem AMVETS Post 45 honor guard raised the U.S. flag while Peggy Elliott, a member of the Communiversity Choir, sang the national anthem. Following the flag-raising, drill team members performed a 21-gun salute. Over recent months, the front entrance was completely redesigned and renovated, which eliminated the previous flag pole. ...

More than 100 reel-to-reel audio recordings pertaining to the May 4, 1970, ����ɫ��ҹ University shootings and their aftermath are now accessible through the ����ɫ��ҹ University Special Collections and Archives’ digital repository. Some of the recently digitized items include previously inaccessible audio recordings of radio call-in forums, a speech by ����ɫ��ҹ President Robert I. White the day after the shootings, a press conference with six students who met with President Richard M. Nixon just days after the shootings, the Scranton Commission hearings and a speech made by Dick Gregory at...