Student Life
17cҳ Celebrates Faculty and Staff as part of ‘I Am First’ Week
17cҳ is celebrating its first-generation students this week with a series of events and programs to spotlight and encourage current students who will be the first in their families to earn a bachelor’s degree. As part of the celebration, some faculty and staff who were first-generation students share their stories in their own words.
17cҳ Awards Celebrate First-Generation College Students and their Supporters
17cҳ celebrated the journey of first-generation college students and those who have made an impact serving as their mentors and advocates with the “I Am First” awards ceremony on Wednesday.
Student Parents Make the Grade With Family-Friendly Study Hours
17cҳ’s Center for Adult and Veteran Services offers family-friendly study hours for student parents that offers a trained student volunteer to entertain and supervise children, most Tuesdays from 2-5 p.m. and Wednesdays 4-7 p.m. on the sixth floor of the library.
'Keep Going, Keep Growing'
The 17cҳ Student Leadership Consultants (SLC) hosted a workshop Tuesday, Nov. 8, that showed students how strong leadership can be used to fundamentally change the culture in their student organizations and workplaces.
Flash Medical Center Gives Students Hands-On Health Care Experience
After a three-year hiatus, Flash Medical Center returned to 17cҳ at Ashtabula’s Robert S. Morrison Hall for a one-day medical emergency simulation on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.
IN A FLASH: Taking a Break
Therapy and service animals are a familiar sight on 17cҳ's campuses.
Getting to Know Your Neighbors
John Skrtic, a proud 17cҳ alumnus and Cleveland Public Library’s chief of special projects and collections, enjoys archiving the people and places of Cleveland.
Earthworms are the Stars of the Show in Graduate Student’s Research on Composting
Kathalina Thorpe's research on using earthworms to compost theater and fashion fabric waste recently won her the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, a year after she was selected by audience members for the People’s Choice award during the fall 2021 competition.
Voting Underway on Campus as Election Day Has Arrived
A handful of students were up early and exercising their right to vote by casting ballots at one of two precincts located at the Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent Campus.
‘I AM FIRST Week’ Celebrates 17cҳ Alumni
17cҳ is celebrating its first-generation students this week with a series of events and programs to spotlight and encourage current students who will be the first in their families to earn a bachelor’s degree.