Student Life

ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Hosts National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Northeast Ohio
βAn American Sunriseβ by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet laureate of the United States, will be the focal point as ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ kicks off the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read Northeast Ohio community reading program. The kickoff event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 12, beginning promptly at 7 p.m. in the Kiva. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is appreciated.
Annual Rainbow Run Helps Support LGBTQ Students In Crisis
The Rainbow Run is one of most important fundraising events of the year for the university's LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, available to assist any LGBTQ+ identifying ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ student in financial crisis. The sixth annual Rainbow Run βfun runβ will take place on Friday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. on Risman Plaza. Find out more about why Ken Ditlevson, director of the ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμβs LGBTQ+ Center, describes the fund as a vital safety net and a lifeline for students who are struggling financially.
ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Ranks High on 2021 Fashion-Schools.org Lists
ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Universityβs School of Fashion once again ranks as one of the best fashion programs in the United States according to Fashion-Schools.org.

ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Celebrates the Return of Homecoming to Campus
Itβs reunion time for the ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ University Golden Flashes family. ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ celebrated Homecoming 2021 with a week of activities and events leading up to the Oct. 2 Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game.

ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Student Wins Cancer Battle And Raises Almost $1 Million For Others Fighting Cancer
At the start of his freshman year at ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ University in 2018, Tim Tusick was the epitome of health. At the end of that year, Tusick was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He remained strong throughout the treatments, but did not want to stay silent. When the Leukemia Lymphoma Society reached out to Tusick, he quickly agreed to help. And help, he did.

Department of English Students Spend Summer Teaching Across the Globe
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is one of the fastest growing global education fields, and ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ students in the 2021 TEFL program taught international students via Zoom over the summer. The students created unique lesson plans and executed them entirely on their own and made lasting memories.

ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Again Named One of the Nationβs Most LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities by Campus Pride
Campus Pride has released its 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list, and for the second time in two years, ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ University has landed on it. ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ is the only Ohio public university to make the 2021 list, and it again is the only school in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to receive this recognition.

ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ Honors College Student Announced as 2021 Portz Scholar
The National Collegiate Honors Council has announced ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ University Honors College graduate Sarah Hagglund as a 2021 Portz Scholar. Hagglund is the 10th honors student from ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ to be named a Portz Scholar since the national competition began in 1990.

Approaching the Complex Questions: New School Offers Multidisciplinary Research and Learning
ΠΤΈ£ΞεΤΒΜμ has established a new school within its College of Arts and Sciences focused on the social sciences and humanities. The School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities will provide an academic home for innovative approaches to complex questions.

Defining Moments: KSU Students Etched Their Feelings Immediately After 9/11
Twenty years ago people across campus, and around the world, were stunned as they watched two planes fly into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.