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Plans in place for Winter 2021 Commencement Dec. 18; Katie Nageotte ’13 to be featured speaker
ASHLAND, Ohio – Plans have been finalized for Ashland University’s Winter 2021 Commencement, taking place on Saturday, Dec. 18, inside Kates Gymnasium. The ceremony, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will be for both undergraduate and graduate students. Please note face masks are required for those attending. Commencement will be streamed so that families and friends unable to attend can still watch their loved ones celebrate this milestone. The link will be…
Undergraduate enrollment grows 11.1 percent at Ashland
ASHLAND, Ohio – Undergraduate enrollment numbers are rising at Ashland University and so is the academic talent, as more and more students are seeing the value in Ashland’s emphasis on individualized attention, its safe campus and supportive community, and wide breadth of academic programs from which to choose. There are 578 new students who are part of the Ashland campus, consisting of 485 first-years and 93 transfers. The total class represents an 11.1…
V.P. of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty to speak as part of Faith and Society series
ASHLAND, Ohio – Montse Alvarado, who serves as vice president and executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, will speak as part of Ashland University’s Faith and Society lecture series, on Monday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Heritage Room of the John C. Myers Convocation Center. The event is free and open to the public and will also be streamed at https://ashlanduniversity.zoom.us/j/92785769838. For those in attendance, masks are required.…
Hutchings came to play, but looks to the law as his future
ASHLAND, Ohio – The pandemic was responsible for the hard hit finances took in the Hutchings’ household near Cleveland. His parents' financial and work struggles were not lost on their youngest child, Giovanni, who was living at home and trying to adjust to Ashland University’s remote learning. His father, a former football player at Division 1 Toledo, had a successful personal training business he built from the ground up. But COVID-19 forced the closing of…
Ashland M.Ed. alumni named 2022 Ohio Teacher of the Year
ASHLAND, Ohio – Kurt Russell, who earned a master of education in curriculum and instruction from Ashland University in 1996 and is currently a social studies teacher at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, Ohio, was selected as the 2022 Ohio Teacher of the Year, it was announced by the Ohio Department of Education earlier this month. “I’m extremely honored to have been recognized as Ohio Teacher of the Year. I applaud all those wonderful and gifted teachers…
Presidential historian to speak at Ashland on Sept. 22
ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University will welcome noted presidential historian Thomas Balcerski on Wednesday, Sept. 22, for a lecture titled “Ranking the Best … and the Worst Presidents.” The event, co-sponsored by the Ashland Honors Program and Phi Alpha Theta honorary society, will take place at the Dauch College of Business and Economics, Room 115, at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Balcerski, an associate professor of history at Eastern…
An internship takes Pireu from basketball into the world of football
ASHLAND, Ohio -- Around the Ashland University campus, Karlee Pireu might be best known for her basketball skills, but this summer, she was all about football. Pireu, a 2017 graduate of Perry High School in Massillon, completed her third internship at the Hall of Fame Village, a division of the Hall of Fame Resort and Entertainment Co. and the developers of property adjacent to the nonprofit Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Hall of Fame Village’s end goal…
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway to speak at Ashbrook luncheon on Sept. 8
ASHLAND, Ohio – Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway will speak at the Ashbrook Center’s Major Issues Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 8 at noon at the John C. Myers Convocation Center, 638 Jefferson St., on the Ashland University campus. Tickets for the luncheon are $20 per person or $160 for a table of eight. Tickets are available online at www.ashbrook.org/event/hemingway. For more information or to order tickets by phone, contact Sally Schramm at 419-…
Christopher Barker finds his niche
ASHLAND, Ohio -- Christopher Barker is a non-traditional online student who is certain of his career path. It wasn’t always that way. He took the two years of culinary classes at Stow Munroe Falls High School before graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School and thought he might want to get involved in that field, only to realize cooking was more of a hobby. He went on be interested in journalism, but that never materialized. But when he started working…
AU President Carlos Campo Named to Social Capital Campaign Advisory Board
7-27-21 ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University President Dr. Carlos Campo has been named to the Social Capital Campaign Advisory Board, a nonprofit that promotes social capital – and the institutions that create it – to policy makers and thought leaders. "I am honored to join the advisory board of the Social Capital Campaign," he said. Like many others in our nation, I believe that renewed civil discourse and emphasizing our shared values can lead to…
