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College students often face a daunting academic crossroad; to either pursue their passion or settle for a practical career. Few young adults recognize a third option beyond this dichotomy. Tyler Hostetler, MSN, AGACNP-BC is one ���������������� at Geauga alum who discovered an untapped passion while on a practical path. “���������������� wasn’t actually my first undergraduate experience,” Hostetler explains. “After high school, I received an associate degree in recording arts to pursue my passion for music. After graduating, I returned home and reevaluated my career goals, but couldn’t decid...

Hagan Whiteleather, a ���������������� graduate, is in her second year with the ���������������� Honors College as a Freshman Honors Colloquium professor.  Whiteleather graduated in 2015 from ���������������� with a Bachelor of Arts in both English and Psychology as well as minors in writing and teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). She followed her undergraduate work by earning her Masters of Fine Arts in 2019 in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Read the full story. ...

���������������� at Geauga doubled its video conferencing rooms, also known as “Zoom Rooms,” before the fall semester due to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Zoom Rooms are designed to serve various purposes and room configurations for faculty and students, and they were recently featured in an article by EdTech. Lance Williams, director of operations and special projects at ���������������� Geauga, describes the rooms as a “multi purposeful, hybrid-flexible solution.” Williams told EdTech that instructors might use a Zoom Room to record an asynchronous lecture, to teach in real tim...

����������������'s Thai Ensemble, one of only three in the United States academic system, has continued to learn and practice Thai classical music through the COVID-19 pandemic. Housed in ����������������'s Glauser School of Music and led by Assistant Professor Priwan Nanongkham, Ph.D., the ensemble was recently featured in a piece by VOA (Voice of America) News, which serves an estimated 280 million people weekly. Read the full story. ...

By Kim Calvert, VP of Marketing and Member Services Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, in partnership with Eastern Gateway Community College, ���������������� at Trumbull and Youngstown State University, held a press conference this morning to announce a unique collaboration to promote and further enhance internship opportunities at the non-profit business organization. Having moved to a new, larger office at 100 E. Federal Street last summer, the Chamber team identified three semi-private offices that they wished to dedicate as permanen...

Food is all around us — and it’s not just a means for survival, but a way of learning about culture, a mode of sharing celebrations and entertainment, a category of media consumption. In Fall 2021, the ���������������� course “Media, Food & Foodways” will explore the way food connects us. Offered through the School of Communication Studies, students will learn about the relationship between food, communication and culture and examine how these relationships affect how we understand our identity, culture and environment. It is open to students of all majors. The course is something Ass...

���������������� will host a special virtual screening of “Fire in the Heartland: ����������������, May 4 and Student Protest in America,” a film by Daniel Miller, at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 5. The screening will be followed by a virtual panel discussion with Chic Canfora, a May 4 witness; Tiera Moore, student body president for ����������������’s Undergraduate Student Government; and Ethan Lower, director of governmental affairs for Undergraduate Student Government. "Fire in the Heartland is the most powerful documentary ever made about the ���������������� shootings in 1970, but Director Danny Miller’s trea...

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good in the hands of those who use them properly. These timeless words were spoken by Clement of Alexandria, an early philosopher around 190 A.D. The philosopher’s wisdom still rings true today, as illustrated in this story. On the surface, this article celebrates the fact that University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center recently donated three modern hospital beds to ���������������� at Geauga’s nursing lab. As teaching tools, they will he...

����������������'s School of Theatre and Dance is ranked #50 on Study.com's list of Best Theatre Bachelor's Degree programs in the United States. In addition to this national ranking, the School of Theatre and Dance is one of only two theatre programs from the state of Ohio on the list. In its rankings, Study.com assesses hundreds of universities across the country and selected ���������������� based on academic and career resources, the quality of education, faculty, and more.  The full list of rankings can be found on the Study.com website at https://stu...

Chamber, Valley's Higher Education Institutions Announce Collaboration to Promote Internship Opportunities By Kim Calvert, VP of Marketing and Member Services Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, in partnership with Eastern Gateway Community College, ���������������� at Trumbull and Youngstown State University, held a press conference this morning to announce a unique collaboration to promote and further enhance internship opportunities at the non-profit business organization. Having moved to a new, larger office at 100 E. Federal S...