Student Life
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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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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Live and Learn
This fall marks the beginning of the second year of Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University’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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Learning to Connect
To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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…
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Humanizing the Heroin Crisis
As the heroin epidemic continues to make headlines and devastate communities across the country, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ 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 / Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Magazine
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Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success
To increase retention rates – and ultimately graduation rates – Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State created its first-ever Summer Advantage Program through University College’s Academic Diversity Outreach department.
Underrepresented Students Sit in the Driver’s Seat of Their Own Success
Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls
At the beginning of each school year, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…
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Movers and Groovers Assists New Students Moving Into Residence Halls
At the beginning of each school year, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Interhall Council, the student government of the resi…
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Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Trumbull Hits the Ground Running With Cross Country Program
Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State 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 Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University students sat side-by-side with a wall separating them as GMA hosts Michael Strahan and Lara Spencer asked questions about how m…
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The Journey to an Epic First Date Goes Viral for two Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State Students
What started three years ago with humorous banter between two Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ State University 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…
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