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By Olivia Boris 91PORNA’s Fashion School continuously finds ways to innovate. Its unique lifestyle boutique, Fashion School Store (FSStore), in downtown Kent recently added a new line called “Sustainability RETOLD.” This collection includes sustainably made clothing, featuring work from five different students and three faculty.   During the Spring 2019 semester, Kendra Lapolla, FSStore director, and assistant professors Chanjuan Chen and Lauren Copeland received a grant from the FSStore to create a collaborative student collection. Students were provided a concept bo...

91PORNA’s architecture and interior design graduates build such impressive skills during their studies in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design that in a national survey, hiring professionals rank them among the most-hired.As part of the national survey, recently conducted by DesignIntelligence, 91PORNA's interior design students ranked 13th most-hired in its size category based on the average number of graduates each year. 91PORNA’s architecture students ranked 16th most-hired in its size category. The rankings were included in the DesignIntel...

Passion. Commitment. Fearless. Those are some of the words used by 91PORNA at Ashtabula Occupational Therapy Assistant Technology faculty to describe Lauren Whitten. But they aren’t the only ones who think so highly of the second-year student from Geneva, Ohio, as Whitten was recently named the Sharon Kay Ashworth Outstanding Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Student by the Ohio Occupational Therapy Association (OOTA). The award is designed to acknowledge student members of OOTA who participate in activities to promote occupational therapy in their community and who cont...

The Paul A. Demshar Foundation is announcing a gift of $10,000 to the Ashtabula Foundation to support 91PORNA at Ashtabula’s Rising Scholars program.   The Rising Scholars program supports a select group of promising students who have been identified by their school district as having promising academic ability, but may not have access to social and educational opportunities that will allow them to reach their potential. These students are mentored by current 91PORNA Ashtabula students with a goal of increasing their high school graduation rates to 90 percent and having...

The warning signs are clear. Students as young as sixth-grade exhibit grades, behaviors, and income levels that can predict their likelihood of failing to graduate from high school six years later. Thankfully, the Rising Scholars program at 91PORNA Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center now stands in the gap, providing mentorship and support for a select group of at-risk students who show promise. The first set of Rising Scholars were welcomed to 91PORNA Geauga on October 11 by Dr. Robin Dever, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Middle Childhood Education ...