Film: Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is a refreshing new start for the Marvel movie franchise and for the Marvel Universe. Set in the present day, the movie tells the story of Dr. Steven Strange,...
Want to hire into a field that aligns with your major or area of study? The University of Akron’s upcoming Career Fairs, all taking place in the Student Union, will put students in direct contact...
The University of Akron Board of Trustees named Matthew Wilson, former dean of UA's law school, interim president of the University on July 11, after former president Scott Scarborough resigned in May. In...
Hello everyone, and welcome back to fall semester at The University of Akron. We hope your classes have started smoothly and you are engaged in your work.
We’d like to mention three things in this...
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...
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...
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...
This past weekend, The University of Akron’s Fisher Institute for Professional Selling sent four students to the largest sales competition in existence.
The National Collegiate Sales competition...
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...
Students in The University of Akron’s new Museums and Archives certification program is planning to exhibit a collection of artifacts related to old buildings that the University has purchased and refurbished....
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...
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,...
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally titled “A Future to Believe In” in Akron yesterday, March 15, at the Akron Civic Theater.
The rally began at around 1 p.m., but many...
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...
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...
“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...
Students in UA's Undergraduate Student Government are currently working to give students access to affordable legal counsel through a non-profit organization called Student Legal Services.
USG requires...
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 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 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,...
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 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...
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...
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?...
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”...
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...
By Grant Morgan, Managing Editor
• August 22, 2015
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...
The following is an letter addressed to The University of Akron President Scott Scarborough, written and signed by the UA Undergraduate Student Government's president and vice president Taylor Swift...
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,...
What does it mean for a book to be in the public domain? And what are you doing this summer?
According to the fifth edition of Webster’s New World College Dictionary, public domain means “the condition...
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...
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...
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,...
The Nile Project’s members performed at E.J. Thomas Hall on Sunday, March 1, to educate Akron through its interactive musical performance.
This traveling group demonstrates the musical, dress,...
Television’s classic game show made its way to The University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
The Price is Right Live is an interactive stage version of the television show that...
By Jenna Ramolt, Arts & Life Writer
• February 9, 2015
UA’s Dance Institute presented an original production titled “The Snow Maiden” at EJ Thomas Hall last weekend.
More than 90 performers took the stage, all varying in age from first-graders to...
