½ÄÏÌåÓý faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the ½ÄÏÌåÓý Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit or call 330-346-0100.
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All ½ÄÏÌåÓý campuses will operate on a holiday schedule from Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, through Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. During this time, all nonessential operations will be closed at all ½ÄÏÌåÓý State campuses. Normal business operations will resume with the first shift on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

½ÄÏÌåÓý at Ashtabula welcomes a new food service to campus with the opening of Bridge Street Boulevard.

Familiar Face
jenny marcinkiewicz
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
½ÄÏÌåÓý Campus

New Face
PATRICK DUGAN
Assistant Director for Residential Communities
Residence Services
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Richard (Rick) Feinberg, professor of anthropology on the ½ÄÏÌåÓý Campus, was elected Section Assembly Convener of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
David Hassler, director of ½ÄÏÌåÓý State’s Wick Poetry Center, attended a meeting of poetry organizations from across the U.S. at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from Nov. 5-7.
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Introduction to Basic Social Media and Social Network Analysis" at the Internet Policy in the MENA Region: Research Methods for Advocates in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sept. 3, 2015.
Jeffrey T. Child, School of Communication Studies, and Shawn Starcher, College of Communication and Information, authored "Fuzzy Facebook Privacy Boundaries: Exploring Mediated Lurking, Vague-booking, and Facebook Privacy Management," Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 54, (2016): 483-490.
Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr., Department of Sociology, ½ÄÏÌåÓý at Stark, authored a section of a book, "Police-Academic and Professional Practitioner Collaboration in Research, Education, Training, and Programming" in Collaborative Policing: Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation, 1st ed. (Boca-Raton, Florida: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group) Peter C. Kratcoski, Sr. and Maximilian Edelbacher, Eds.(2016), 5-26.
Dear Employees of the ½ÄÏÌåÓý Community,
This message serves to provide you with guidance should local, state and/or federal law enforcement visit our university campuses for the purposes of immigration law. As a public institution, ½ÄÏÌåÓý State must comply with all federal laws and directives, including those related to law enforcement activities.
Dear Colleagues:
Please take note of the following important information regarding your 2024 Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
½ÄÏÌåÓý's holiday closure for 2024 will begin Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, at 10:30 p.m. All offices will re-open on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. Employees not eligible for the paid leave include student employees, classified temporary staff, temporary agency staff, short-term unclassified appointments, unclassified intermittent appointments and employees in a lay-off status. More information on the holiday schedule, including how employees should report time during that period, will be available later this month.