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WEWS features ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State's Career Closet

Interview in Your Best ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Style

A good education and a solid résumé aren’t always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï faculty and staff members have come together to establish the ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire …

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A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Student Blankets Struggling Children with Warmth

A ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï student makes blankets to bring comfort to children going through difficult times.

Tags: Student Life , Featured Story , College of Education Health and Human Services

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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 ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’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…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

Photo by Bob Christy '95

Live and Learn

This fall marks the beginning of the second year of ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï’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…

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ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

Learning to Connect

To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State 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 , Global Reach

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

Photo by Melissa Olson

Humanizing the Heroin Crisis

As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State 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 / ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

Tags: Student Life , Health , population health

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Magazine

The 2017 Summer Advantage Program participants and staff stand outside ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State’s University College.

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

To increase retention rates – and ultimately graduation rates – ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State created its first-ever Summer Advantage Program through University College’s Academic Diversity Outreach department.

Tags: Student Life , e1-082817 , e2

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

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State 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, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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 ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

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

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Campus

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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, ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï 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 ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…

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

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Pictured are ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï at Trumbull's Program Coordinator Michelle Adkins, Dean Lance Grahn, coach Bill Hess and sophomore Briana Ellwood.

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.

Tags: e2-080717 , e2 , Student Life

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï State Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program