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Alexis Bartee is a senior majoring in insurance studies at ����Vlog�ƽ�� at Salem. She decided to pursue this degree after she began working at an insurance company in Akron in 2012. There, she helped people plan their insurance needs andguided them through the process. In August, however, Bartee was in Texas caring for her elderly grandparents when Hurricane Harvey hit and, unfortunately, she now views the world of insurance from a whole different vantage point. As of mid-September, that vantage point is a shelter housing more than 300 people, of all ages, who were displaced because...

The 2017 Brick in Architecture Awards named ����Vlog�ƽ��’s Center for Architecture and Environmental Design as “Best in Class” for the Educational (Higher Education) category. The awards honored 35 winners for their incorporation of clay brick in their designs. “From concept to material selection, color, special shapes, coursing and performance, the brick masonry of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design receives straight As,” says Mark Mistur, dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. “Perhaps the most compelling and creative of all is t...

The 2017 results of the American Heart Association Workplace Health Achievement Index were recently announced and ����Vlog�ƽ�� achieved silver-level recognition for taking significant steps to build a culture of health in the workplace. The American Heart Association created the index with its CEO Roundtable members, a leadership collaborative of more than 30 CEOs from some of America’s largest companies who are committed to applying evidence-based approaches to improve their employees’ overall health. The index uses science-based best practices to evaluate the overall quality and comprehensive...

  Music, Movements and Media: Rolling Stone @ 50, wrapped up its final class at the end of week five. Throughout the course, Assistant Professor Stephanie Smith taught students about the birth of rock journalism, connections between music and movements, audience engagement of the magazine and social influence. ����Vlog�ƽ��’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) partnered with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland for the course. In week three, the class received a private tour of Rock Hall to examine the iconic images throughout the museum and the visual storyt...

The Ohio Communication Association hosted the 81st annual Ohio Communication Association Conference on Friday, Oct. 6 and Saturday, Oct. 7 at Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio. Several School of Communication Studies graduate students presented their research at the conference, which was themed “Communication of Discourse: Education, Application and Innovation.” William Kelvin presented his visual framing study of corporate environmental communication on “TransCanada’s Keystone XL PR videos,” earning Top Graduate Student Poster honors. "It was my first academic poster ...

For students in any healthcare-related field of study, the hands-on learning that takes place in actual clinical settings is critical to their overall educational experience. For Mary Kenney and Paris Yanno, that experience was greatly enhanced because of six weeks spent in Nicaragua, applying what they learned as students. Kenney and Yanno each graduated this past summer from the occupational therapy assistant program on the East Liverpool Campus, but not before becoming part of the Jessie F. Richardson Foundation’s 2017 Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Experience. They, along with six other s...

����Vlog�ƽ��’s College of Business Administration has partnered with the Ohio Development Services Agency on behalf of the Ohio Small Business Development Center to deliver the Certified Business Advisor® (CBA) online certification program beginning fall 2017. The program, offered fully online, certifies business professionals through focused instruction at the graduate level in accounting/finance, marketing and human resource management. The Certified Business Advisor program was developed for business professionals who counsel and inform existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. Ac...

Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation and KeyBank Foundation among largest supporters ����Vlog�ƽ�� recently concluded its largest fundraising year in school history after securing $38.9 million in private support during Fiscal Year 2017. Among its highest priorities, the university focuses on raising funds to support scholarships and student-based programming, in alignment with the university strategic roadmap, which has a primary emphasis on putting students first in all aspects. “We have a keen focus on enhancing the student experience at ����Vlog�ƽ��,” said ����Vlog�ƽ�� President Beve...