91²Ö¿â

Student Life

Photo by Bob Christy '95

One University Commencement

Dix Stadium was the place to be at 10 a.m. on May 13, 2017, as graduates from all campuses gathered for 91²Ö¿â’s first One University Commencement Ceremony, and their friends and families joined together to celebrate their achievements.  “This approach enables us to honor all graduates f…

Tags: University News , Student Life

91²Ö¿â Magazine

Photo by Bob Christy '95

Live and Learn

This fall marks the beginning of the second year of 91²Ö¿â’s living-learning community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) students and their allies in the recently renovated Korb Hall.  While Residence Services has offered gender-inclusive housin…

Tags: Student Life , University News

91²Ö¿â Magazine

Learning to Connect

To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to 91²Ö¿â read the same book, write an essay in response to reading prompts and then talk about it in discussion groups when they get to campus.  This year’s Common Reading book, selected by the C…

Tags: Student Life , University News , Community & Society ,

91²Ö¿â Magazine

Photo by Melissa Olson

Humanizing the Heroin Crisis

As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, 91²Ö¿â sophomore public relations major Emelia Sherin found a way to help people better understand what’s going on, who is affected—and what we can do about it.

By Emelia Sherin, as told to Jan Senn / 91²Ö¿â Magazine

Tags: Student Life , Health , population health

91²Ö¿â Magazine

The 2017 Summer Advantage Program participants and staff stand outside 91²Ö¿â’s University College.

Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

To increase retention rates – and ultimately graduation rates – 91²Ö¿â created its first-ever Summer Advantage Program through University College’s Academic Diversity Outreach department.

Tags: Student Life ,

Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success

91²Ö¿â students move clothing into Olsen Hall during freshman move-in day.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, 91²Ö¿â faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

Tags: Department of Residence Services , Student Life , Movers and Groovers , Success Story

Kent Campus

91²Ö¿â volunteers help move freshman into their new residence halls during the annual service program, called Movers and Groovers.

Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls

At the beginning of each school year, 91²Ö¿â faculty, staff and students volunteer to help incoming freshmen move into the university’s residence halls. The annual service program, called Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

Tags: Department of Residence Services , Student Life , Movers and Groovers

Kent Campus

Pictured are 91²Ö¿â at Trumbull's Program Coordinator Michelle Adkins, Dean Lance Grahn, coach Bill Hess and sophomore Briana Ellwood.

91²Ö¿â Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program

91²Ö¿â at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.

Tags: Student Life

91²Ö¿â Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program

Michelle Arendas and Josh Avsec meet on GMA.

91²Ö¿â Tinder Couple Meets for the First Time on GMA

Michelle Arendas and Josh Avsec have bantered on Tinder for three years, but never met until Tuesday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. The two 91²Ö¿â students sat side-by-side with a wall separating them as GMA hosts Michael Strahan and Lara Spencer asked questions about how m…

Tags: Student Life , Featured Story

Flash Feed

91²Ö¿â Students go Viral with Epic First Date.

The Journey to an Epic First Date Goes Viral for two 91²Ö¿â Students

What started three years ago with humorous banter between two 91²Ö¿â Students on a dating site has turned into a dreamy first date. And the world is watching. Michelle Arendas and Josh Avsec matched on Tinder back in 2014, but their responses to one another were not exactly instant…

Tags: Student Life

Flash Feed