After receiving a $100,000 grant, The University of Akron School of Law is partnering with the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority (AMHA) to help youths with criminal records find jobs and affordable...
On Tuesday, May 3, University of Akron President Scott Scarborough appointed William Lyons as his interim chief of staff.
Lyons has been a political science professor at UA since 1996, becoming director...
The results of a survey released yesterday show that UA faculty have even less confidence in University leadership and direction than they did fall semester.
“Approximately 9 out of every 10 faculty...
William Shakespeare was quite alive last week when The University of Akron celebrated the 400th anniversary of his death.
Last Friday, April 22, UA’s English and Archival Services departments teamed...
“There’s still a few more pieces of the puzzle that I have left to place,” said University of Akron President Scott Scarborough regarding the seven vacant positions on his management team for next...
The University of Akron administration budgeted $3 million for marketing during the 2015-2016 school year.
Approved by the Board of Trustees in June 2015, the annual budget of $480 million included...
As a part of “Tech Week,” a panel discussion was held in the College of Business Administration (CBA) yesterday to inform students about current trends and corporate culture in information technology...
A brand new 5k race, organized by DreamAKRON, is raising money in order to establish scholarships for high school students on May 7.
The race is a community event that involves people from the Akron...
Out in Orrville at UA’s Wayne College campus, it was a quiet day for both trustees and protesters.
Yesterday, April 13, was the UA Board of Trustee’s last meeting of spring semester – its...
The National Sales and Marketing Executives (NSME) Akron-Canton chapter held their monthly dinner meeting at The Tangier in Akron on Tuesday, April 12.
Three female members of NSME Norma Rist, Jane...
Not since eight years ago has The University of Akron Board of Trustees held a meeting anywhere other than main campus.
Yet the Board’s next meeting, slated for this Wednesday, April 13 at 10 a.m.,...
Over the weekend, The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame STEM Middle School hosted its sixth BEST (Bridging Engineering, Science, and Technology) Medicine Engineering Fair.
This event, orchestrated...
On Wednesday, April 6, The University of Akron is hosting Zippy tryouts at 2 p.m. in the James A. Rhodes Arena (Lab 4). To qualify for the position, one must be a full-time UA student and have registered...
Kristina Aiad-Toss and Logan Lane contributed reporting
While you were away on spring break, an update came about when and how students will be getting their fee refunds, UA’s faculty union and...
Several weeks ago, at a time when tension ran high on campus after the Faculty Senate’s overwhelming no-confidence vote in President Scott Scarborough, UA’s Undergraduate Student Government issued...
The University of Akron plans on launching the first ever National Museum of Psychology in the spring of 2017.
“The museum will be the first one of its kind in the world dedicated solely to telling...
This summer, Amazon is opening a venue near UA’s campus where students, faculty, and the Akron public can pick up their packages and make returns.
UA is one of seven schools in the U.S. to receive...
Yesterday, University of Akron senior Tyeal Howell was honored with the Woman to Watch Award by the Women’s History Project (WHP) of Akron, which is a program of the Summit County Historical Society.
Howell...
Just over 56 percent of undergraduate students say they have no confidence in UA President Scott Scarborough, a survey released last week by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) shows.
The survey,...
The University of Akron is making new rules for how professors can use their funding, which causes concerns for both UA’s budget, and UA’s faculty.
Two types of funding have not been accounted...
In the print version of this article, The Buchtelite did not clarify the conditions for the administration's faculty salary proposal. The proposal includes a 0.75 percent increase for the next two academic...
It is known that women are underrepresented in STEM fields, but an event held every year at The University of Akron is working to change that.
Last Saturday, UA held the 2016 Kid’s Career Day in...
The University of Akron will be refunding students up to $4.1 million for an improperly increased facilities fee included in UA’s 2015 - 2016 budget.
This marks the second time state officials have...
The University of Akron will return $4.1 million to its students after the Ohio Department of Education discovered UA’s facilities fee was improperly raised during the summer.
In its 2015 - 2016 budget,...
“The notion that you have to pick between what you love and paying the bills is absurd,” said Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline and founding director of The University of Akron’s new EXL Center.
A...
By Grant Morgan, Managing Editor
• February 29, 2016
As the faculty union goes into emergency meetings today and tomorrow to discuss a strike-authorization vote, a group of distinguished UA professors has publicly declared their disapproval of the University’s...
A Medal of Honor recipient came to The University of Akron on Friday, Feb. 19 to speak about his time spent on duty overseas.
Army Sgt. Kyle White received a Medal of Honor, the U.S.’s highest military...
In an interview with The Buchtelite last Monday, Feb. 15, UA Board of Trustees Chair Jonathan Pavloff gave responses neither supporting nor criticizing President Scott Scarborough.
Asked if the board...
At the Undergraduate Student Government senate meeting on Feb. 11, USG President Taylor Swift announced plans to issue a campus-wide survey to all students in order to gather student sentiment toward campus...
By Zaina Salem, Editor-in-Chief
• February 17, 2016
In an effort to show their support for a fair contract, and to send a positive message to prospective and current students, faculty members from the Akron American Association of University Professors...
By Grant Morgan, Managing Editor
• February 10, 2016
In the printed version of the article, UA Board of Trustees Chair Jonathan Pavloff is introduced only with his last name, and without reference of what position he holds at UA.
After the...
Yesterday at The University of Akron’s Board of Trustees meeting, the public had to leave the room when the Board opted to resume its private executive session.
The Board had already met in executive...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• February 8, 2016
According to University spokesman Wayne Hill, the "proposed course fees" mentioned in this article are for law students in the UA School of Law's international program in Asia, and for Fire and Hazardous...
By a count of 50-2, the UA faculty senate voted no confidence in President Scott Scarborough at its last meeting on Feb. 4, 2016.
The no-confidence resolution cited reasons why the “University has...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• February 4, 2016
Yesterday, UA announced plans to change the name of its Honors College after receiving a $3 million gift from alumni Gary and Pamela Williams.
The gift expands the Williamses’ $7 million bequest given...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• February 1, 2016
Freshman applications to UA were down 6 percent in mid-January from the same time last year, as the number of admitted students who had confirmed their intent to enroll in fall 2016 were down 32 percent,...
Within 24 hours of her book’s release, Sarah Swider, an alumna and assistant professor of Wayne State University, came to UA on Jan. 29 to discuss the conditions that millions of informal workers and...
Think back to when you first started out in college. What are some of the things you remember? Dorms? Rob’s Dining Hall? New Roo Weekend? With their first semester out of the way and their second just...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• January 25, 2016
Last week on the first day of spring classes, Jan. 19, a few new and what are likely to be popular dining venues opened on campus.
What was Ohio Burger in the Student Union is now a Chick-fil-A and...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• December 15, 2015
A new campaign is in progress to reform the way top decisions are being made at The University of Akron.
Paid for by “Advocates for The University of Akron, Students and Faculty,” the campaign has...
Tomorrow marks the last day of fall classes. After the weekend, finals will try to claim our sanity. But once finals are over, the much-anticipated winter break begins. Before we know it, spring semester...
By Zaina Salem, Editor-in-Chief
• December 9, 2015
A University of Akron student was shot to death around 11 p.m. on Monday when a robber gunned him down at a pizza parlor in Akron.
Zakareia Husein, 21, was working at his family-owned New York Style...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• December 7, 2015
It started early this year as a post on a zipsnation.org forum.
Since, the topic of a UA name-change — a rebranding, a new slogan, a marketing tagline, whatever one might call it now — has been...
Undeterred, relentless, and ready to make their voices heard yet again—students from the Ohio Student Association (OSA) are holding another protest outside of the Board of Trustees meeting this Wednesday...
Last Sunday the Akron Beacon Journal ran a full-page ad signed by seven of Akron’s prominent business executives, which exhorted readers to put faith in the changes at UA and “come together” to support...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• November 30, 2015
In spite of extensive dissatisfaction from other constituents, at least one group puts hope in the direction of UA: Akron’s business executives.
On Sunday, Nov. 29, seven prominent Akron businessmen...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• November 23, 2015
Last week, The Buchtelite published a story about UA Black Students United’s rally in support of the protesters’ cause at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), held on Nov. 16 outside of the Student...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• November 19, 2015
“No topic is off-limits,” UA President Scott Scarborough told the crowd at yesterday’s Akron Press Club event in Quaker Square’s banquet hall, where nearly 175 educators, students, staff, alumni,...
UA President Scott Scarborough began his Akron Press Club speech yesterday by pulling out the dry erase markers and telling the audience he was going to run it like he does “normal meetings” with “faculty,...
By Grant Morgan, Managing Editor
• November 16, 2015
More than 120 students, most of them black, gathered outside the Student Union Starbucks entrance yesterday to voice their support for happenings at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), and address concerns...
UA President Scott Scarborough recently appeared on the cover of the November issue of the Akron/Canton SmartBusiness magazine.
A business magazine? Figures.
But “smart” business?...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• November 9, 2015
University President Scott Scarborough might soon receive a formal “lack of confidence” expression from the UA Faculty Senate.
A resolution “to create an ad hoc committee to consider proposing...
In most fields, taking risks is usually said to have a negative connotation, but in the eyes of Sandra Pianalto, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, it is the stepping stone...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• November 4, 2015
Students received troubling, but important, news in a special edition of Zipmail yesterday.
The letter was from President Scott Scarborough, and it highlighted some of the findings from the UA Sexual...
In the Oct. 29 printed version of this article, UA's rebranding was incorrectly written as "Ohio's Polytechnic Institute." The rebranding is to "Ohio's Polytechnic University," not "Ohio's Polytechnic...
UA President Scott Scarborough’s penultimate slide from Tuesday’s “State of the University” address showed the stoic face of Theodore Roosevelt, one of American history’s most resilient men,...
UA President Scott Scarborough was not the only one to give his thoughts on the state of the university on Tuesday.
Faculty did, too. One hour before the president’s first “State of the University”...
The campus-wide competition known as Humans vs. Zombies came to an abrupt end last Monday night when UAPD decided to cancel it.
The police department cited an influx of complaints as the reason for...
Last week, UA introduced the first of eight recipients of The University of Akron Game-Changer Award.
The award is presented to UA students who embody the “I-won’t-take-no-for-an-answer, roll-up-my-sleeves-and-make-it-happen...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• October 12, 2015
A special guest came to last week’s Undergraduate Student Government senate meeting to talk about, and perhaps clarify, recent changes at The University of Akron.
The guest was John Messina, associate...
Admitting wrongdoing is difficult—and apparently too difficult, especially for The University of Akron’s administrators.
The tenderest consolation UA’s constituents have so far received is the...
Monday’s USG Town Hall meeting with Scott Scarborough held great promises, but left something to be desired.
The idea of a town hall meeting carries a strong connotation of intimacy: guests openly...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• September 30, 2015
Not all employees whose positions were cut in July have left The University of Akron for good.
“We’ve had a number of people who we’ve brought back because of bumping rights or [their] skill set...
By Grant Morgan , Managing Editor
• September 28, 2015
Faculty are not happy with the way things are going at The University of Akron.
Yesterday, the Akron chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released results of a survey...
Students can expect a different dining experience this fall, as UA recently hired the Aramark Corporation to take over its Dining Services.
Aramark is a big company—207th of the list of Fortune 500s—that...
Seventeen students gathered in Olin Hall Room 124 today, May 1, to work out the details of a protest against a name-change for The University of Akron.
The protest will take place next Friday, May 8,...
By Sofia Syed , Arts & Life Editor
• April 29, 2015
This week, 2015 graduates will get the chance to commemorate their time spent at UA with Senior Week.
This is the first year that UA has offered Senior Week—a week-long series of events that allows...
Rather than sitting in one of the buildings on campus and listening to a professor lecture, a group of students participated in a different type of instruction in mid-April.
Their instructors were editors...
Gary Spring will receive the inaugural 2015 Legal Services Champion Award from the Cleveland District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Spring is the director of The University of Akron...
A cheaper general education program, a free college program for junior high and high school students, new Learning Communities, changes to the USG constitution—such topics were discussed at yesterday’s...
The UA Ballroom Dance Competition Team returned from a tournament last weekend yielding impressive results.
The team competed in the University of Michigan Ballroom Competition on Saturday, April 11.
Each...
Online companies might be the way of the future, and UA is at the helm of the movement.
NEXTOhio, a conference about online startups, took place at Quaker Station on Thursday, April 9. It was...
A name can tell a lot about a university. Or can it?
What is now known as The University of Akron began as Buchtel College in 1870.
Buchtel College and its assets were transferred to the City of...
UA’s email system is changing; however, those affected might not even notice.
The current “on-premise” system, Microsoft Exchange 2007, will change to a new “cloud-based” system, Exchange...
The University of Akron Police Department launched a new public safety system that rewards those who report crimes.
“See it. Report it. Get rewarded!” gives those who see illegal activity a chance...
The eighth annual Black Male Summit will be returning Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 to The University of Akron’s campus.
The Black Male Summit was started in 2008 and brings together national...
Some UA students used spring break as time away from school to volunteer with The University of Akron’s Alternative Spring Break.
For four days over spring break, 91 volunteers—UA students and...
In December 2014, a group of fifteen students from The University of Akron traveled to Ouanaminthe, Haiti and visited a school called Institution Univers (IU).
Zeke Isaac, who is originally from Haiti,...
The University of Akron might undergo a name change.
This idea was one of many discussed as part of UA’s ongoing strategic planning process.
According to a statement released by President Scarborough,...
National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) recently notified a UA student that she had won the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award.
Senior Jenna Payne, a public...
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