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The Rural Scholars program works to connect middle schoolers and high schoolers living in Columbiana County to their local surroundings and beyond. This has never been more apparent than from a summer full of four separate week-long workshops, and an autumn full of different career exploration workshops. The Rural Scholars Program currently has 94 students enrolled, paired with 18 undergraduate mentors. The summer kicked off with “Locationology,” the program directed towards 10th graders. Scholars were able to discover their own roots, while also better understanding the history of the a...

Students and staff from the nursing program at 91�ֿ� Salem hosted International Day featuring food, music and displays of several cultures that represent the locations nursing students visited in recent years as part of their study abroad courses. The countries and cultures highlighted included Japan, Canada, Tanzania, Ghana, Switzerland, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Haiti and the Native American Lakota community from South Dakota.  # # #      Headliner Photo: Getting ready for International Day on the 91�ֿ� Salem Campus are (from left) Sondra O’Donnell, ...

Several students and faculty members from the 91�ֿ� Salem Campus began their fall semester with a trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota, where they interacted with members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. This was the fifth trip to the reservation by students from the Salem Campus, offered through a transcultural nursing course that focuses on advancing cultural humility. Sixteen nursing students, along with two students from the early childhood education program, were part of this cultural exchange, as well as six faculty members. Lorene Martin, senior lec...