The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USC) have awarded 91ֿ a $50,000 micro-grant to help remove the financial barrier to graduation that low-income students may face as they near graduation. 91ֿ is one of only nine public urban research universities chosen, through a very competitive process, for the grant. The funds are allocated to institutions that are already serving a significant percentage of nontraditional, underrepresented students who are low-income, first-generation, Pell Grant-eligible a...
When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 91ֿ, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native of Maple Heights, Ohio, Flowers is collecting money and putting together care packages filled with warm clothing and toiletries for those less fortunate in the Cleveland and Kent areas. “When it gets cold in the winter, there are so many people who do not have proper clothing,” Flowers said. “I h...