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.
Keller is a junior early childhood education major and a full-time student, but she also has a full-time job as a nanny.
Last year, students celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month in Oxford Memorial Park with the UniDiversity Festival. Food trucks with options from various Latin American countries lined the streets and live bands performed throughout the day. This year, they're approaching the celebration a little differently.
As students are still confined to dorms and houses, the video game 'Among Us' provides some community and distraction during a trying 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.
Miami University’s Associated Student Government (ASG) held special elections for four on-campus senator positions and two positions on the student trustee election committee at its Sept. 29 meeting.
Miami University’s acceptance rate increased from roughly 65% to 75% in the last two years, as confirmed by Bethany Perkins, Miami’s director of admissions.
What’s 18-year-old Davis Byrd’s idea of a perfect day? He wakes up, grabs some cereal (he claims it’s the best food), plays the video game Overwatch on his Nintendo Switch and hangs out with two of his friends, Aaron and Nathan. Maybe they even play a little bit of soccer.
Zoom has been a major resource and tool that professors utilize for classes and to connect with students. But one factor within the video conferencing platform has altered the way Miami professors look at teaching — students’ cameras.
On a crisp October weekend in years past, the Oxford community gathered together to hike. Families and students perused the booths that lined the entrance to the trails near the stables. Some people socialized while picking up pamphlets; others would grab a map and hit the trails. Instead of gathering for one day of hiking, this year's Hike-A-Thon experience has been expanded to the whole month of October.
COVID-19 has forced many of Miami University’s events online this year, and Family Weekend and Homecoming haven’t been spared.
Gabrielle Union, an award-winning actress, famous for movies such as “Bring It On” and “10 Things I Hate About You,” and Michael Eric Dyson, a New York Times best-selling author and ordained minister, spoke at the lecture about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement Monday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom.
College brings an array of new experiences to first-year students: freedom, independence and social life are just a few. Even though this new environment is exciting and refreshing, it can cause a tremendous amount of anxiety and self-consciousness for freshmen who are susceptible to comparison.
A lot of people turn to their religious communities for support through tough times. That sense of connection is different as people are navigating through the unprecedented time of 2020, but it’s not lost.
Miami will conduct its own investigation once OPD’s investigation is complete.
Stickers promoting the white supremacist group Patriot Front have been placed across campus, according to a university-wide email Miami’s Institutional Response Team (IRT) sent out on Sept. 26.
“Tell the World: Freedom is a Constant Struggle” was a concert sponsored by the Miami Alumni Association, the Department of Music and the Department of Diversity and Inclusion that celebrated Black composers such as Roland Bonds, Margaret Bonds, Florence Price and many others through performances of their spirituals and vocal works.
More than 1,500 Miami students have tested positive for COVID-19 since Aug. 17 — nearly 10% of the total student population. As infections continue to rise, many students have joked about getting infected intentionally in the name of herd immunity. But for the health professionals informing Miami’s response to the pandemic, this trend has dangerous implications for the Oxford community.