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This fall, more than 900 students transferred to С��Ƭ��Ƶ. National Transfer Student Week is Oct. 21-25, and the university is hosting events specifically designed for transfer students, creating opportunities for these students and the С��Ƭ��Ƶ community to engage.

As the champagne flowed Oct. 15 in the clubhouse of the National League Champion Washington Nationals, there was a С��Ƭ��Ƶ connection in the middle of the frenzy that capped the team’s first trip to the World Series.

С��Ƭ��Ƶ’s Precision Flight ranked third overall last week at the Region III Safecon, Competition at The Ohio State University (OSU) securing its place in the national competition. The National Intercollegiate Flight Association (NIFA) SAFECON flight competition, the premier collegiate flight competition with over 500 competitors from more than 30 schools, will be held at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, May 18-23, 2020.

С��Ƭ��Ƶ's Esports team won the Hearthstone finals at the Harrisburg University Esports (HUE) Invitational held in mid-September. The Esports team was among 64 collegiate teams invited to the competition. The team took the Hearthstone champion title, winning against ten other universities.

The first priority of С��Ƭ��Ƶ’s strategic roadmap is to ensure that students have the education, experiences and support they need to graduate and to live successful, satisfying lives in their work and in their commitment to become engaged citizens. The university’s Academic Success Center team is making that priority its priority with the creation of the Academic Success Plan (ASP), a new application that gives students easier and quicker access to resources that will help them succeed in class.

Minority, low-income and first-generation college students are often underrepresented in graduate schools. To change this and to help students realize their potential, the McNair Scholars Program at С��Ƭ��Ƶ provides assistance to underrepresented students who consider pursuing a doctoral degree.  

While student voting nationwide doubled since 2014, the С��Ƭ��Ƶ student voting rate has increased 135% from 2014 to 2018, according to a recent report from the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, conducted by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life.

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, different countries, cities and communities around the world – including the С��Ƭ��Ƶ community –  have been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. As С��Ƭ��Ƶ’s population of Hispanic and Latino students continues to grow each year, students, faculty, organizations and departments are taking the time to acknowledge the month through a series of discussion, events, dancing and even theatrical plays.

As we approach the 2020 presidential election, college campuses have become charged with energy from the differences throughout the student body. Channel 5 News asked С��Ƭ��Ƶ College Republicans, “what’s it like being a Republican on a college campus right now?”

The School of Theatre and Dance’s Design, Technology and Production program has been selected by On Stage Blog as one of the top 30 programs for the 2019-2020 academic year.