When Miami University President Greg Crawford announced the return of residential students and face-to-face classes in a Sept. 9 email, he started a trend of conflicting messages about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic on Miami’s Oxford campus.
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Sophia Blatnik and other sophomore architecture majors met virtually with Gretchen Radler, the assistant dean and divisional advisor of the College of Creative Arts, to discuss scheduling for the spring semester.
Miami University will not charge employees for parking permits for this academic year, according to the university’s news website.
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) passed a resolution supporting the creation of a service dog park on campus at its Oct. 13 meeting.
I received the all-too-familiar email on a Monday evening.
It is unclear whether the student contracted the virus at the university or after returning home for remote learning in mid-September.
Brian Stelter still views the media as an essential part of the American democracy.
Despite Miami University’s ever-changing fall semester plans, students still went on to study abroad in three different countries.
In a normal year, Miami University welcomes 50,000 prospective students and family members to the Oxford campus for tours and admissions events. This semester, Andrew Boehm, associate director of admissions, said they might not top 2,000.
Miami University’s COVID-19 Oxford campus dashboard has been active for nearly two months. But some students have raised concerns about the information provided by Miami.
As COVID-19 cases spiked once again among Miami University students last week, fingers are being pointed at who is and isn’t following the rules.
Every year around Halloween, a similar conversation takes place across all social media platforms: what costumes are and aren’t considered “cultural appropriation?”
It is misting and gray at the Oxford Senior Center. A sign on the front door of the building reads ‘locked because of COVID-19.’ Shanna Cianchetti, the driver of the senior center’s early voting shuttle bus, leads passengers through the parking lot — braving the faint drizzle — to one of the shuttles.
One month after Miami students moved onto campus in September, the process of dealing with COVID-19 remains uncomfortable and unfamiliar, and for many, it hasn’t gotten any easier.
Many events have been canceled this year, but Halloween won’t be one of them.
As one of Miami University’s two student trustees serving on the Board of Trustees (BoT) prepares to graduate this spring, the university is looking to fill the vacancy for the next two years.
Talawanda School District’s Board of Education voted unanimously to allow students the option of going back to classes in-person on Oct. 29 or to remain remote through the semester.
The Office of Residence Life (ORL) at Miami University recently announced that Bell Tower Commons will be closed to all students not under the university’s remain-in-room (RIR) advisory, and Western Dining Commons will be closed to non-RIR students on the weekends.
So why are maskless students and staff still a constant presence on campus? If Miami students are following the same trends as the rest of the country, the reason may be politics.
The newly introduced GET app allows students to skip the long lines in Armstrong and pick up their food to go.