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AU’s Portner installed as president of National Association of College Auxiliary Services
ASHLAND, Ohio – Matthew Portner, the executive director of auxiliary services at Ashland University, has been inaugurated as president of the Board of Directors of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services, the organization announced this week. Portner, a 30-year employee of Ashland, heads a number of the University’s non-academic segments, including student dining, the campus store, catering and conference services and housing options for short-…
Marketing Management Students Learn the Power of Paying It Forward
ASHLAND, Ohio – There’s nothing better on a cold, rainy November Sunday than a hot bowl of chili and the Cleveland Browns on the big screen TV. At least that is what AU senior Cortney Carathers was hoping. Carathers and her classmates from Chris Mahar’s marketing management course were getting a taste of philanthropy while giving a taste of some pretty fine chili to those who offered $5 to gain entry to the normally closed-on-Sunday A-Town Tap in downtown…
Ashland’s Correctional Education program partners with Honest Jobs
ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland University Correctional Education (CE) program is proud to announce a significant enhancement in providing transformative experiences for its students. AU has partnered with Honest Jobs to design and deliver a program that will assist AU CE students in finding employment when they return to society as a citizen. Workforce reentry is among the most significant challenges for those who undergo a period of incarceration, even for…
Plans in place for Winter 2021 Commencement Dec. 18; Katie Nageotte ’13 to be featured speaker
ASHLAND, Ohio – Plans have been finalized for Ashland University’s Winter 2021 Commencement, taking place on Saturday, Dec. 18, inside Kates Gymnasium. The ceremony, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will be for both undergraduate and graduate students. Please note face masks are required for those attending. Commencement will be streamed so that families and friends unable to attend can still watch their loved ones celebrate this milestone. The link will be…
Undergraduate enrollment grows 11.1 percent at Ashland
ASHLAND, Ohio – Undergraduate enrollment numbers are rising at Ashland University and so is the academic talent, as more and more students are seeing the value in Ashland’s emphasis on individualized attention, its safe campus and supportive community, and wide breadth of academic programs from which to choose. There are 578 new students who are part of the Ashland campus, consisting of 485 first-years and 93 transfers. The total class represents an 11.1…
V.P. of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty to speak as part of Faith and Society series
ASHLAND, Ohio – Montse Alvarado, who serves as vice president and executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, will speak as part of Ashland University’s Faith and Society lecture series, on Monday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Heritage Room of the John C. Myers Convocation Center. The event is free and open to the public and will also be streamed at https://ashlanduniversity.zoom.us/j/92785769838. For those in attendance, masks are required.…
Hutchings came to play, but looks to the law as his future
ASHLAND, Ohio – The pandemic was responsible for the hard hit finances took in the Hutchings’ household near Cleveland. His parents' financial and work struggles were not lost on their youngest child, Giovanni, who was living at home and trying to adjust to Ashland University’s remote learning. His father, a former football player at Division 1 Toledo, had a successful personal training business he built from the ground up. But COVID-19 forced the closing of…
Ashland M.Ed. alumni named 2022 Ohio Teacher of the Year
ASHLAND, Ohio – Kurt Russell, who earned a master of education in curriculum and instruction from Ashland University in 1996 and is currently a social studies teacher at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, Ohio, was selected as the 2022 Ohio Teacher of the Year, it was announced by the Ohio Department of Education earlier this month. “I’m extremely honored to have been recognized as Ohio Teacher of the Year. I applaud all those wonderful and gifted teachers…
Presidential historian to speak at Ashland on Sept. 22
ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University will welcome noted presidential historian Thomas Balcerski on Wednesday, Sept. 22, for a lecture titled “Ranking the Best … and the Worst Presidents.” The event, co-sponsored by the Ashland Honors Program and Phi Alpha Theta honorary society, will take place at the Dauch College of Business and Economics, Room 115, at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Balcerski, an associate professor of history at Eastern…
An internship takes Pireu from basketball into the world of football
ASHLAND, Ohio -- Around the Ashland University campus, Karlee Pireu might be best known for her basketball skills, but this summer, she was all about football. Pireu, a 2017 graduate of Perry High School in Massillon, completed her third internship at the Hall of Fame Village, a division of the Hall of Fame Resort and Entertainment Co. and the developers of property adjacent to the nonprofit Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. Hall of Fame Village’s end goal…
