51ĀŅĀ×

51ĀŅĀ× Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Sayrs wrote a column for the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) that focuses on OHIOā€™s use of behavioral science research to help students stay in college and earn their degrees. She wrote:

ā€œAt Mayā€™s commencement ceremony, I was honored and delighted to shake the hand of a graduating student I have known for over a decade. Having grown up in poverty, sometimes residing with a grandparent and living unsupported by parents throughout college, this student was now a college graduate with a job already lined up. Itā€™s not a unique story at 51ĀŅĀ×, but one of many that demonstrates to me every day that education has the power to transform not only our students, but also their families and communities.

ā€œLocated in the rural Appalachian foothills, 51ĀŅĀ× balances its role as a selective, nationally ranked research institution that has an increasingly diverse body of students from across the state, nation, and world, with a commitment to its mission of access for students in the region. I am as proud of that studentā€™s graduation as I am of the ten OHIO students who were awarded a Fulbright this spring.ā€

To read the full column, .