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Note: The following essay was crafted by Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ�’s Department of Pan-African Studies. The Department of Pan-African Studies focuses on the study of communities of people of African descent both on the continent of Africa and in various countries throughout the world.   -------------                                                                 &nb...

The �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State East Liverpool Campus received a significant boost to its scholarship fund by the Friends of the East Liverpool Campus that will help local students begin or complete their degrees. The Friends made a financial contribution to provide funding for up to 30 new scholarships totaling more than $40,000.  The funds are earmarked for scholarships beginning with the upcoming fall semester for new and returning students. Each scholarship recipient must attend the East Liverpool campus for six or more hours per semester and be a graduate of the Beaver Local, East Liverpool, ...

Your Employee Wellness Team invites you to join our second challenge with Wellable, our newest wellness partner. Wellable provides an online challenge platform and device/app integration formerly found in our partnership with the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). Many �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� State employees have already started using Wellable. Don't miss out on our next challenge, which will focus on physical and environmental Sustainability.  The simple goal of sustainability is to create and maintain an environment where humans and nature can exist in productive harmony. Although sustaina...

Note: The following essay was crafted by Mike Daniels, interim director of �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ�’s Student Multicultural Center. The Student Multicultural Center provides counseling, mentoring, financial guidance and other support necessary for educational access and retention.    ------------- Is this America? Where popular culture is largely represented by Black culture? Where musicians, artists, and athletes can be praised and celebrated for their talents, but criminalized for their skin color? Where the beginning of one month can start with people of every ra...

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced Wednesday a historic esports venture with a newly created independent esports conference – Esports Collegiate Conference – to facilitate and foster high-quality gaming competition among collegiate esports teams. �þ���ҹ����ӰԺ��ѹۿ� is among the 12 founding members of the new esports conference.  The Esports Collegiate Conference (Esports Collegiate or ESC) will provide structure, scheduling and championship opportunities for its membership, with competition beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year. Esports Collegiate is an independent ent...

The nation watched in anger and shock as a white police officer in Minneapolis nonchalantly knelt on the neck of George Floyd, an African American man, who had been accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill until he uttered the words “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s brief encounter with the police, which was recorded and subsequently disseminated to the world, was the latest in numerous encounters in which unarmed African American men and women have died at the hands of police or other citizens taking the law into their own hands. Floyd’s death set off national, even global, outrag...