06/16/2021
Miami's Juneteenth 'Teach-in': a Q-and-A with Professor Rodney Coates
Rodney Coates, a professor of critical race and ethnic studies in the department of global and intercultural studies at Miami University, will give a pre-recorded webinar lecture at 2 p.m. Friday, June 18, about the importance of Juneteenth in American history.
06/16/2021
Weekly Three 06/16/21
The Weekly Three posting from the Office of Institutional Diversity on June 16, 2021: DEI Implementation, Community Updates, and Celebrations and Recognition
06/16/2021
EHS students win Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarships to help fund study abroad
Congratulations Alexis Fields, integrated social studies education and Tea Gilbert, integrated English language arts education.
06/16/2021
HB 290: A backpack full of empty promises, an opinion from Dr. Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dr. Joe Malin
Ultimately, we believe that this so-called “backpack” is full of empty promises for Ohio students and families.
06/16/2021
Upcoming change: WordPress (blogs.MiamiOH.edu) moving to hosted solution
IT Services is getting ready to move the WordPress environment to a hosted environment -- in other words, the cloud.
06/16/2021
Former FSB dean receives American Accounting Association Service Award
An accountancy professor who served as FSB dean until his retirement has received a prestigious service award.
06/15/2021
International Partners' Lecture Series with Dr. Thomas Misco
Demystifying and disambiguating civic, citizenship, and social education: The goal of education for our interdependent world
06/15/2021
Dr. Zhou and students summer research
Dr. Qihou Zhou is working with students researching biomedical signal analysis using machine learning techniques.
06/15/2021
Student-run Miami credit union creates opportunities for workers and members
One of a handful of student-run credit unions is still going strong more than 40 years after starting at Miami.
06/14/2021
Five Miami students named Gilman Scholars
Five Miami University students received Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to help fund their study abroad experiences this summer and during the coming academic year. The combined total awarded to these students is $20,000.
06/14/2021
One year later: 2020 Miami University Regionals' grads land on their feet
Thanks to a global pandemic, the unemployment rate in April 2020 stood at 14.7 percent with 33.5 million Americans filing for unemployment aid. A year later, that rate stands at 6.1 percent, with companies finding new ways to do business and hiring back workers on furlough because of COVID-19 more quickly than expected.
Using Local Initiatives to Fund In-Home Services: Ohio Leads the Nation
As a result of limitations in federal and state funding for nonmedical supportive services, some communities across 15 states are utilizing local funding sources to support aging services for older adults and/or their family or friend caregivers. Local funding sources include property tax levies, payroll, and sales taxes. This research brief explores how communities across Ohio utilize local funding and analyzes the differences in various approaches such as amount of revenue generated, service eligibility criterion, type of services covered, and management infrastructure.