By Alyssa Alexsonshk, News Contributor
May 16, 2022 • No Comments
On April 29, 2022, the Fisher Institute held a grand reopening through the Fisher Corporate Partners Meeting from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Attendees included students, corporate partners and UA faculty and staff members. According to Dave Payne, Professor of Practice and Sales and Director of the Fisher Institute of Professional Selling, there are around 30 corporate partners who help students with internships. UA students achieve 100% job placement among the sales majors and minors at The University of Akron. “The Fisher Institute for Professional Selling is the second oldest university sales education program...
By Alyssa Alexsonshk, News Contributor
April 26, 2022 • No Comments
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Several campus organizations have created events during this month to build awareness and provide resources to The University of Akron students, faculty, staff, and administrators surrounding the topic. The organizations who planned the events are Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center, CASA (Coalition Against Sexual Assault) and SAVE (Sexual Assault and Violence Education). Hope and Healing is comprised of two non-profit organizations: the Battered Women’s Shelter and the Rape Crisis Center. CASA is a student organization with a mission to educate, advocate, and...
By LeKesha Parkman, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2022 • No Comments
I first met graphic design major and marketing minor Kohl Spieker when I was a freshman at the University of Akron. Spieker’s skill in graphic design was immediately apparent to me, as was his kind and thoughtful nature. As Art Director for the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art’s annual Senior Portfolio Exhibition, these characteristics serve him well. Spieker’s leadership puts many of his fellow classmates at ease. Senior year is beset with many stressors and for the graphic design majors at Myers, that holds especially true. Spieker learned of the senior exhibition during his first year at Myers and...
By Hannah Wines, Correspondant
April 18, 2022 • No Comments
The Williams Honors College of The University of Akron is looking for undergraduate students to submit works for the Ben Auburn Award of Cultural Criticism. The Ben Auburn Award competition is open to all undergraduate students at The University of Akron. The first prize in each category is $500. Entries are due by April 22, 2022. There are two categories for submissions:.The first is a piece of work focusing on cultural criticism that identifies how culture adapts and changes within trends in arts, ideas and aesthetics. The second category is for works that can be submitted for the special topic this year,...
By Alyssa Alexsonshk, News Contributor
April 26, 2022 • No Comments
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Several campus organizations have created events during this month to build awareness and provide resources to The University of Akron students, faculty, staff, and administrators surrounding the topic. The organizations who planned the events are Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center, CASA (Coalition Against Sexual Assault) and SAVE (Sexual Assault and Violence Education). Hope and Healing is comprised of two non-profit organizations: the Battered Women’s Shelter and the Rape Crisis Center. CASA is a student organization with a mission to educate, advocate, and...
By LeKesha Parkman, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2022 • No Comments
I first met graphic design major and marketing minor Kohl Spieker when I was a freshman at the University of Akron. Spieker’s skill in graphic design was immediately apparent to me, as was his kind and thoughtful nature. As Art Director for the Mary Schiller Myers School of Art’s annual Senior Portfolio Exhibition, these characteristics serve him well. Spieker’s leadership puts many of his fellow classmates at ease. Senior year is beset with many stressors and for the graphic design majors at Myers, that holds especially true. Spieker learned of the senior exhibition during his first year at Myers and...
By Hannah Wines, Correspondant
April 18, 2022 • No Comments
The Williams Honors College of The University of Akron is looking for undergraduate students to submit works for the Ben Auburn Award of Cultural Criticism. The Ben Auburn Award competition is open to all undergraduate students at The University of Akron. The first prize in each category is $500. Entries are due by April 22, 2022. There are two categories for submissions:.The first is a piece of work focusing on cultural criticism that identifies how culture adapts and changes within trends in arts, ideas and aesthetics. The second category is for works that can be submitted for the special topic this year,...
By Abigail Geiser , Correspondent
April 11, 2022 • No Comments
Travis Howe of Fat T’s Cookies says the business started as a “side hustle,” but has since become much more.
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