On March 27, the team of Hillsboro FFA members Addy Knauff, Alex McClarren, Chris Sowders, Gavin Brown and Corbin Winkle competed in the Highland County practice Envirothon.
The Fairfield Local High School chapter of the National Honor Society has had a very successful school year. This student organization has successfully directed several school activities including two charitable projects and has volunteered at several events.
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) Monday announced additional steps to support students and their families with the Better FAFSA. The Department is launching a multi-million-dollar program as part of the FAFSA Student Support Strategy to help school districts, state, nonprofits and other public and private organizations with efforts to boost FAFSA completion. Since the new 2024-25 FAFSA form became available on Dec. 30, more than 8.95 million forms have been successfully submitted.
Wilmington College’s prominence among the Ohio FFA’s top leadership in recent years continues as Anna S. Moeller was elected president of the state organization Friday (April 3) at the 96th Ohio FFA State Convention. She continues the College’s major presence at the FFA’s state level, as WC senior Aubrey Schwartz served as state president in 2022-23.
The Biden-Harris Administration last week announced the approval of more than $6.1 billion in automatic student loan relief to nearly 317,000 borrowers who enrolled at any Art Institute campus on or after Jan. 1, 2004, through Oct. 16, 2017.
Wilmington College students have increased academic offerings available with the emergence of several incubator programs starting this fall. One of those new major concentrations is sports nutrition. It — along with public health, cybersecurity management and logistics & supply chain management — will be taught in a hybrid modality by a combination of Wilmington College faculty and instructors nationwide.
Hillsboro FFA member Carter Boyd was slated as the 2024-25 Ohio FFA State Vice President Friday evening during the final session of the 96th Ohio FFA Convention.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, 39 percent of Ohio’s distracted driving crashes since 2018 have involved drivers between ages 15-24. Students in Ohio Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA®) are taking matters into their own hands to make their communities safer, creating teen safe driving campaigns addressing the very real dangers of distracted and impaired driving.
President Joe Biden responded Thursday to weeks of protest on college campuses calling for a ceasefire in Gaza with a brief statement that the right to protest should be protected, but “not the right to cause chaos.”
Wilmington College’s WAVE project, in which science students are sampling and testing water quality in local streams while seeking pollution mitigation measures, garnered a triad of major awards at Thursday’s (May 2) 13th Annual Research Forum. Some 80 students showcased their research conducted as individuals, groups and with faculty members through poster presentations and other media.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued the U.S. Department of Education this week over recent changes to Title IX, the law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools.
Stephen D. Dackin, director of the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce; Maj. Gen. (U.S. Army retired) Deborah Ashenhurst, director of the Ohio Department of Veterans Services; and Ohio Second Lady Tina Husted recently recognized high school students from throughout Ohio who have committed to service in the U.S. military.
