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Dinner With Friends

Dinner With Friends Returns, Pulling Up Chairs for Students, Faculty and Staff

91²Ö¿â’s Dinner With Friends returned to campus, allowing students, faculty and staff to share a meal and talk about issues that matter to the campus community, often with people they would never otherwise meet.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life

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Elizabeth Pomarico helps students with indoor archery during WinterBlast.

Flash Activities Board Connects Students One Event at a Time | ‘Club Hopping’

The Flash Activities Board, known as FAB, is usually a student’s first introduction to the 91²Ö¿â community. Whether a student is looking for a quick evening activity, roaring crowds or somewhere to meet new friends in general, an event by the FAB should be their first stop.

Tags: Student Organizations , Student Life , Community Impact , Center for Student Involvement , Black Squirrel Festival , Division of Student Life

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Sarah Spinner, Ph.D., J.D., speaks at fall Leaders Lunch Club.

Leaders Lunch Club Connects Students to Campus Experts

91²Ö¿â’s Center for Student Involvement hosted its first Leaders Lunch Club of the semester at the Pepsi Leadership Center on Sept. 2 with Sarah Spinner, Ph.D., J.D., director of the 91²Ö¿â Museum, as its first featured speaker to kick off the fall event series. “Leadership is not a title that’s given to you,â€� Spinner said. “Someone doesn’t make you a leader. Leadership is how you choose to act.â€�

Tags: Students First , Student Life , Community & Society , Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life

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Dodgeball Vice President Carlton Pittman ready to throw a dodgeball with another group member

91²Ö¿â Dodgeball Team Starts Season Ranked Fourth After Historic Season | ‘Club Hopping’

91²Ö¿â Dodgeball enters its 25th season ranked fourth nationally and third in the Ohio Region. Team leaders and members describe a close-knit community built on Wednesday and Friday practices, with the squad eyeing a rematch against rival Ohio State University after a semifinal loss last year.

Tags: Student Life , Students First , Student Organizations , Center for Student Involvement , Student Recreation and Wellness Center , Division of Student Life

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Election Day 2024

Voting Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. Here’s How 91²Ö¿â Students Can Make Their Voices Count

For college students, voting can sometimes feel like one more complicated thing to figure out — especially when you’re living away from home, moving between addresses or trying to understand where and when you’re supposed to cast a ballot. But it doesn’t have to be.

Tags: Community & Society , Community Impact , Division of Student Life

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2026 Blastoff

Hopping Into the Shoes of Student Organizations

One of the best parts of being a student at 91²Ö¿â is how students guide their own paths. And one of the easiest ways they can personalize their golden experience is through more than 330 student organizations and clubs within 91²Ö¿â’s Center for Student Involvement. 

Tags: Student Life , Students First , Student Organizations , Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life

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A 91²Ö¿â student listens to a speaker during the 2026 Student Leadership Summit.

Student Leadership Summit Helps Golden Flashes Find Their Voice, Build Community

For Evan Austin, leadership does not begin with a title. It begins with understanding who you are, finding your community and continuing to move forward when things don’t go according to plan.

Tags: Student Life , Students First , Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life

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91²Ö¿â President Todd Diacon hands a pair of 91²Ö¿â-branded socks to a student during Move-In.

Welcome Back, Flashes! Your Golden Experience Begins Now

It’s Aug. 19, a sunny, 80-degree day in Kent, Ohio, and some of the nearly 6,000 91²Ö¿â students who will be living on campus are starting to arrive with their families – carrying boxes and bags, and a whole range of emotions with them. From first-year students leaving the nest to upperclass students who came out to help new students move in, 91²Ö¿â Today was there to get a glimpse of one of the most exciting days on campus.

Tags: Students First , University Housing , Division of Student Life , Student Life

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Melissa Davis of the Herrick Conservatory offered succulent plants to students.

IN A FLASH: For Earth's Sake

The Earth Day Bash 2026 at 91²Ö¿â's brought together ecologically minded Golden Flashes and members of the community to celebrate Earth Day.

Tags: Earth Day , Organizational Sustainability , Student Organizations , Community & Society , Community Impact , Division of Student Life

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VA Work Study Misty Sommers, Jordan Jenkins, Liana Sanchez

Helping Veterans Fast Track the Path to Graduation from the Inside

91²Ö¿â’s VA Work-Study Program has been working to expand its reach, servicing military-affiliated students to help them turn their service experience into academic credit, while providing meaningful hands-on opportunities for student workers.  

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