Each spring, the English Department offers a variety of awards for English majors in their undergraduate program (or, depending on the award, graduate program). Some scholarships include sending in a short story, poetry selections or essays from English or literature courses taken recently. Download the 2023 Award Winners Poster here. The awards given this year included: Jedediah Brownbread,...

Dis/connect The showcase opened with an outdoor dance performance that took the audience on a tour around Kolbe Hall. That dance that occurred prior to the event was reprised as a video played on a large screen in Paul Daum Theatre as the start of the formal recital. The videography gave a different perspective and focus on the dance that theatre-goers had witnessed outdoors, where they could choose...

From High School to the University of Akron: Thank You Mom! My journey as an Akron Zip started in 2017 only a few months before high school graduation. Having taken a journalism class on a whim through Ashland University’s College Credit Plus, I knew I wanted a degree in journalism or some related field. Only I didn’t know the most important detail: where to attend college. I’d been...

My experiences with mental health can be found in part one of this two-part series: “I’m Still Getting My Sh*t Together (and that’s okay).”  There, I dive deeper into my own journey in life, overcoming struggles, and my current distress about graduating.  While brainstorming ideas for that piece, I was given the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert C. Schwartz, Associate Dean of the College...

(Part II of this story available here). I will graduate on May 6. Considering that it’s this weekend, you might assume I’m on cloud nine.   Many of my peers appear to be. They look and seem ecstatic in both graduation pictures and in their social media statuses. Graduating college is an accomplishment to commemorate, and I am very proud of my peers.   But I’ve found myself wondering:...

The College Overnight Residential Experience (CORE) Summer Program, Weds. June 21 and Thurs. June 22, is a unique one-night experience where high school juniors will plot strategies for a successful freshman year of college.   “Instead of telling them where to go and what to do, we are going to make them actually do it in real time with real folks doing real scenario type work,” Donray...