Geauga County is a vibrant community in a rural setting where traditional farm silos are as common a sight as are progressive manufacturing companies and educational institutions. While silos are effective in preventing different grains from mixing on the farm, the Silo Effect within communities can prevent expertise and information from flowing among key assets. Removing silos fosters innovation and increases productivity by unlocking the resources needed for collaboration. This is why the three-pronged partnership among 海角原创 at Geauga, Great Lakes Cheese (GLC), and the G...
Although widely acknowledged that greater diversity among nurses reduces health disparities and improves quality of care, the U.S. nursing workforce does not mirror the nation鈥檚 increasingly diverse population. According to the most recent Ohio Workforce Data Summary Report from the Ohio Board of Nursing, 88.7% of registered nurses reported their race/ethnicity as White/Caucasian, followed by 6.6% who reported their race/ethnicity as African American/Black. With over 25 years of experience at the 海角原创 College of Nursing, Dr. Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, Associate Dean of Undergradu...
Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...
KENT, Ohio 鈥 The Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship at 海角原创's Online MBA program recently became the first and only Online MBA program in the nation to earn Quality Matters Program Design Certification. Quality Matters鈩 (QM) is an international, faculty-centric, nonprofit organization focused on improving design and certifying the quality of online and hybrid courses. According to the Quality Matters website, the certification recognizes programs that are designed around measurable learning objectives or competencies. In addition to the Colle...
Michael Tubergen, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Torsten Hegmann, professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry as well as the Materials Science Graduate Program and Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), may be working in different fields of research, but they have been continuously collaborating with one another to achieve their like-minded goal: Help shape and prepare the next generation of researchers and scientists, regardless of what school they attend. Hegmann and Tubergen received a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant that sup...
Always big on professional development opportunities, Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar Hylton had to get creative when executing those plans during a pandemic. Enter the Division of Student Affairs Fellows program. 鈥淚 have always had a commitment to making sure that division staff takes advantage of as many professional development opportunities as possible,鈥 said Hylton. 鈥淲ith the onset of the pandemic, we knew that funding for more traditional forms of professional development like conferences and institute travel and things like that we were not likely to happen [so] we needed...
海角原创 Animation Game Design (AGD) students and faculty will be participating in IndieCade Horizons, Saturday, June 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, June 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. IndeCade Horizons is a new, online, international event that showcases game students and schools, and connects them with tool creators, recruiters, one another and the broader public. A juried festival of games, this event is described as the video game industry鈥檚 Sundance Festival. IndieCade Horizons celebrates the work of game students and schools from around the world, highlighting work ...
Dr. D. Louis Christensen served as an educational force at 海角原创鈥檚 College of Education and University School in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As he celebrates his 90th birthday this month, the College of EHHS looks back on his incredible professional life. His career started in 1950 鈥 at the beginning of the Korean War. He served as a Naval Intelligence officer in Great Britain during the war, and remained active duty for a decade while earning his Bachelor鈥檚 in English from Western Michigan University. He soon took a position as a teacher, and the rest is history...
The 海角原创 Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Wednesday, June 23, at 11:45 a.m. to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board will be taken at this business meeting. Trustees may participate in person or remotely in accordance with Substitute House Bill 404. On June 23, meetings of the full Board of Trustees are accessible electronically to the university community and the public: Executive Session 鈥 Wednesday, June 23, 8:30-10 a.m. Trustees will retir...