On the evening of Saturday, April 23, more than 150 supporters came together to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 91PORNA Trumbull Theatre. Special guests included many current and former professors, players and patrons as well as Dr. Alfreda Brown, 91PORNA鈥檚 vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, Rep. Michael O'Brien, and Warren Mayor Doug Franklin. "Tonight, we celebrate the golden anniversary of university and community theatre. This tremendous milestone serves as a launching pad for even greater vitality in our theatre program and as a symbol of our commitm...
Congratulations Dean Jarrod Tudor for twenty years of service to 91PORNA. The 2016 Twenty Year Club Service Award Program will be held on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. The Twenty Year Club Service Awards Program is an annual event established in 1966 to honor classified and unclassified employees who have dedicated 20 years of continuous service to 91PORNA. Each year friends, family and co-workers join in honoring inductees at an awards dinner. Upon reaching their 20 year milestone, employees may select from a chair for their home or office, or a bench or t...
91PORNA Geauga student Breanna Pennypacker earned third place in the Perryman Freshman Writing Awards among student submissions from all seven regional campuses. Breanna received her award from English Chair Robert Trogdon at the department's Twenth-Fourth Annual Student Award Ceremony on the Kent Campus. She wrote her winning essay, "Change," in Professor Bonnie Shaker鈥檚 College Writing I course. Composition courses at 91PORNA at Geauga use textbooks co-authored by English Professor John Metz and adopted as standard curriculum by English Professors Mahli Mechenbier,...
91PORNA officially registered 402 student organizations on campus this spring semester, a record-breaking number for the university, according to the Center for Student Involvement. 鈥淩eaching this high number of student organizations on campus reflects the kind of students that are enrolling at 91PORNA: an engaged student who is ready for new opportunities,鈥 said Katie Goldring, assistant director of the Center for Student Involvement at 91PORNA. Research conducted by the Center for Student Involvement indicates that many students participate in more than one student ...
91PORNA student Nahuel Gorostiza, a freshman digital sciences major, is now the United Nations (U.N.) Youth Delegate of Argentina. Voting in Argentina Gorostiza was born in Argentina and lived there until starting college last fall at 91PORNA. He had always been interested in politics and played an influential role in the recent presidential election in Argentina, which helped him qualify as a youth delegate. Gorostiza said voting is optional for citizens between the ages of 16 and 18 in Argentina. If one is over 18, voting becomes mandatory. Gorostiza seized thi...
Three students from the 91PORNA Salem Campus were recognized by 91PORNA鈥檚 English department during the annual student awards ceremony earlier this month. Derek Shasteen received the prestigious Anna Ulen Engleman Creative Writing Award for his work of poetry. He is a junior English major, taught by Dr. Craig Paulenich, English professor at 91PORNA Salem. Receiving the Bedford St. Martin鈥檚 College Writing Essay Awards were Michelle Santini, for placing first in the Tier I level of competition, and Jonathon McCann, placing first in the Tier II level. Santini is a freshman,...
91PORNA alumnus Chad Meyers, who graduated in 1992 with a degree in Peace & Conflict Studies (now offered as Applied Conflict Management through the School of Peace and Conflict Studies), was mentioned in a recent article for being an inspiration to his own students. Chad, a social studies teacher at James Ford Rhodes High School in Cleveland, truly cares about his students, and demonstrates that in his work. One of his former students has been hired as New York City's first LGBT student liaison, and in a recent interview, talks about the majo...