As we honor Ohio State history and celebrate who we are now in the 2019-2020 academic year, take a look back at how we shaped the university then, and what we’re doing to push higher education into the future.
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Driving toward excellence through diversity
In one year, EHE has raised the bar for hiring faculty of color. Here’s how, and why, the college did it.
Hope in the heartland
College looks to shore up education gaps, economic disparity in Ohio’s outlying communities A seventh-grade boy held court at his lunch table as a half-dozen others convulsed with laughter at his antics. Jayden Woodgeard held back nothing — even putting a twist on the old science class meme about Uranus. To his buddies’ immense glee, […]
The changing face of urban education
Best practices and rich cultural heritages blend to overcome life’s challenges
Global reach, local impact
Sometimes, a change in perspective is all a student, researcher, teacher, human needs Ten years ago, researchers studying group dynamics gave tasks to randomly assembled teams. They found that if only a few members in the group spoke, the collective intelligence of the group declined. The smartest, most nimble teams were ones where every voice […]
The Meyer Mechanism
Ohio State Football players face an inordinate amount of stress. Their coaches help them harness the anxiety. Talk about anxiety. Urban Meyer, ’88 MA, and his players know the meaning of the word. Anxiety is what can happen, and sometimes does, when several million people are trained on your every move via ESPN. It’s what […]
