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����ֱ�� State University observes Thanksgiving Break on Nov. 22-26. No classes are scheduled during this time. University offices remain open on Nov. 22 and then are closed Nov. 23-26. The university will resume normal operations on Nov. 27.

To see a list of state-designated holidays and dates when the university is closed, please visit ����ֱ�� State’s Academic Calendar.

The ����ֱ�� State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, in the Aeronautics and Engineering Building, Room 225, on the ����ֱ�� Campus to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:15 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in Room 225.

The Wick family has a long history of philanthropy at ����ֱ�� State University that began in 1984 when brothers Bob and Walt Wick first established scholarships to support undergraduate poets at the university. This most recent gift of $1 million brings the family’s total lifetime commitment to the university to more than $3.5 million.

As part of ����ֱ�� State University’s annual Veterans Day Commemoration, cadets from the university’s ROTC programs joined staff from University Facilities Management and other volunteers on the site of the May 4, 1970, tragedy to plant daffodil bulbs.

����ֱ�� State University will be closed Friday, Nov. 10, in observance of the Veterans Day holiday. No classes are scheduled, and university offices are closed. The university will resume normal operations on Monday, Nov. 13.

To see a list of state-designated holidays and dates when the university is closed, please visit ����ֱ�� State’s Academic Calendar.

Macon will serve through May 16, 2027, fulfilling the unexpired term of Johnathan Holifield. Holifield resigned his position as a trustee in late 2022 due to an out-of-state relocation.

Matthew Helmick-Bickel, 29, spent five years in the U.S. Army as an airborne paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina, now known as Fort Liberty, before he enrolled at ����ֱ�� State in 2020.  

����ֱ�� State University invites all to pay tribute to those who have served in the U.S. armed forces and attend the university’s annual Veterans Day Commemoration. The event will take place at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Student Green on the ����ֱ�� Campus.

����ֱ�� State University recognizes alumni who, through leadership, character and hard work, are making a difference. During Homecoming Weekend, 10 Golden Flashes were presented with Alumni Awards, and nine alumni received Lifetime Achievement recognitions from the university’s Black Alumni Chapter.

Twenty-three students won first place in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience competition with a three-minute presentation and a slide.