Just heard on WKNR, LeBron James will be accepting his MVP award at The University of Akron.

Some nice publicity coming our way!!!

Are you insinuating that the early college program is housed in the student union? Otherwise, my point still stands. They are still going to pack in hoards all over campus and act obnoxious. The program is a great idea. But why do we need them to be on our campus?

It's official!

ESPN.com Story

The early college is mostly in Polsky right now, they use a few other buildings that I am aware of, the fact that you have an issue at all is kind of telling. Intimidated by high school kids.

Right now if you are seeing any kids on the main part of campus, they are likely East Students. The early college kids are selected based on grades and if they cause a problem they are gone. If you are having problems with anyone it's the East kids.

I believe I was told by my boss a while back that the former building of the Inventor's Hall of Fame was being transformed into a building to house UA's early college students to get them out of Polsky and open up more classroom space for UA students.

No the Inventor's Hall of Fame school is being transformed into the STEM Middle School. Has nothing to do with Early College.

Watch it g-mann, you are beginning to sound a touch like Jake. Intimidated? C'mon, now. Let's be mature. I'm not taking part in one of your little cat fights.



Yes, that does sound more like what I'm seeing. But for some reason I always thought that was Central Hower High. Google is calling it East High, but then where is this 'central hower' location where everyone wanted the new arena built?

And what reason do the East High school students have for being on campus? Shouldn't they be in class or something. They are incredibly loud. If I saw them yelling and screaming jibberish when I was touring campus I would have never gone here. I'm sure most students feel the same way.

Sorry for the jab.

The building is Central Hower but Central was closed to contract to 7 high schools. Due to Akron Public School new facility program East was temporarily closed as it was renovated and an addition put on to house Goodyear Middle School in the combined facility. East has been in the Central building going on two-three years and should go back to East (on Britain Road) for the start of the next school year. They are on campus because they may have open lunch (don't know that for sure) and let's face it, kids flick classes. If you flick class at a school next to a University where are you likely to go?

No problem.


Ahh, okay. That makes sense. So then my next question is, what happens when the East High students go back to their renovated school? Who gets the old Hower?

As of right now, I have no idea. My best guess is the Early College get's it; otherwise they will use it for a swing school for another High School that has to have their building done (Garfield/Kenmore). Buchtel, Ellet, Firestone and North have room (and land) and buildings close enough to house students while they are rebuilt or rennovated.

The Hower site is a swing school for APD. All the high schools that are to be renovated will occupy Hower until the renovations are done. Once East leaves, another high school will take its place.

Does your major require you to "stay in your building" and not travel to other parts of the campus? There is nothing magical about the Central Hower location that would prohibit students housed in it from traveling all over campus. Do you currently see East High students restricted to the Central Hower Building?

http://www.uakron.edu/im/online-newsroom/n...t%20competition

Buchtel College's advanced observatory helped students explore universe

UA donates two police cruisers to Lake Township. Lake was almost completely wiped off the map by a tornado this month.

Hostess outlet store near UA closing Saturday.

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/96482244.html

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Don't know if anyone has watched the series on the states that the History Channel is showing again now (original airing date was back in 2007) but two UA Asst. Professors, Gregory Wilson and Kevin Kern are featured in it. Akron gets a reasonable amount of play including a mention that the first motorized police wagon started there and quite a bit on the Soap Box Derby (one girl said she cried for a hour when she got to go to Akron - not HAD to go to Akron ). It also mentioned that the Cuyahoga river caught on fire in Cleveland 4 times in 6 decades (which led to the Clean Water Act and the creation of the EPA).

Board of Trustees approves creation of a FirstEnergy Advanced Energy Research Center

http://www.hudsonhubtimes.com/news/article/4851844

Hudson facility?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

A. Schulman donates $120,000 worth of equipment to the Polymer Engineering program.

The empire is quietly growing. Besides Wayne College, we're in Holmes Co., Medina Co., Barberton, and looking at Hudson. They mentioned the 293 acres of protected wetlands for research but I don't know how much "dry land" there would be for academic facilities. It could be a good spot for main campus overflow (dorms too) since it's a quick drive up Rte. 8...run a shuttle if need be.

University park Alliance tabs guy from the Cleveland Port Authority to lead.

Not sure I like this hire.

The Myers School of Art gets some recognition by the BBC of all people

Link

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/98672109.html

The city of Akron is trying to get approval and funding to re-work the stretch of I-76-I-77 closest to UA. It would cut off a major route that people use to get to the University with the closing of on and off ramps along that stretch, forcing people to use Route 8.

I would be all for this if the Interbelt highway was completely connected to the other highways instead of being a strip of concrete in a sea of surface streets. Connecting it to I-76 in both directions would help ease the flow of traffic in a major way. That should have been the city's top highway priority for many years, but now it lays almost abandoned and only used by driver's ed students who are trying to get used to freeway driving without dealing with traffic.

I use the Interbelt to get into and out of the city occasionally when coming to campus. It's not that big of a hassle.

It's impossible to get to the interbelt if you're heading west. That's why so many people are trying to exit at Main Street, which is the whole reason they want to shut down the Wolf Ledges ramps.

The story of Director of Basketball Operations Dan Peters

I think this was discussed in another thread but for all of the folks who maintain that private/parochial schools don't recruit for athletics:

It was on to St. Michaels' grade school where Peters played football, basketball and baseball.
"I remember going to the C.Y.C. in downtown Canton and meeting a coach named Rey Dempsey," Peters said. "He ran a basketball program and kept track of all the good athletes in the area and tried to recruit them for Central Catholic. He sold me on going to Central and I really enjoyed my four years at the school."

I don't have a problem with it, I was wish more people would acknowlegde it instead of pretending they are recruiting only for "academics". Same thing exists for college. Plenty of schools some atheletes would not qualify for other than a 4.4 40.

I just jump on Exchange street and go down to Akron General and then hang a left. I think I took that way after every football game this year.

Oh, wait, you are saying if you are heading west on 76......yea, I can see that!

City hoping that UA will sign back on with Akron steam plant.

Department of Defense gives the Corrosion Engineering program another $2.5 million

Let's get that facility built quickly. If done right, it will become a huge boost to UA because it's the only corrosion program in the country, located right in the center of the rust belt. Companies across the US are clamoring to hire people that don't need trained from scratch.

Wow. Corroded bridges are a Defense Dept. issue now? Well, sounds like a good career choice since we always hear about how much infrastructure upgrade is needed. And it can't be easily outsourced. Yeah, the Rust Engineering program in the Rust Belt is bound to make it into a Letterman monologue eventually, if it hasn't already. There goes another parking lot. Ironically, they were going to build one of the new parking decks in that corner of campus at one time.

Pipeline corrosion is a major safety concern in every processing plant in the world.

Ships, aircraft, tanks, and just about every other piece of equipment they have is exposed to extreme environments. Facilities and other assets could also see extended life. This is probably the best money spent by the DoD on non mission critical research in years.

New Trustee appointed to the board: Akron attorney Ralph Palmisano.

New residence hall approved. 735 beds initially, but could go up to 2,500 beds if funding is secured. I think they'll replace the townhomes and the ancient Grant residence hall.

A 2,500 bed residence hall would be beyond massive. Far more than anything on campus currently. The current giant dorm building on Exchange has just 500 beds. It would almost double the dorm space for the university.

The large UA letters on the southwest side of the new parking deck are down and they're removing the damaged bricks to replace them. Did the storm take down another sign?

They said on Grant street, between Exchange and Wheeler? does this mean Gallucci is getting torn down, or the Townhouses? Wouldn't mind seeing either one go, I lived in Gallucci for 3 years and it has really been showing its age. I wonder why they didn't want to build this new building up near the stadium like originally planned?

I'm thinking the townhouses go first. This will supposedly be done in phases, going from 735 bed hall (huge in itself) where the townhouses are, and adding two more halls to replace Grant and Gallucci eventually.

And if you read further down the article, Proenza said that private funding will be used to build a minimum of three new academic research buildings, at least three residence halls and two or more parking decks during his state of the university address last fall. One research building has been built, between the polymer college and the bread factory, one parking deck on Exchange, and this announced dorm would be the first one (Spicer was already under construction).

So expect at least two more academic buildings, probably where the Wonderbread factory currently is and next to Buckingham (planned Corrosion Engineering building). At least two more dorms, one located at Lot 9 and one somewhere else. And one more parking deck somewhere (north campus?).

Yea, I saw that today. That's a pretty nice parking deck as parking decks go. Still, it is a bit of an eyesore. They should have put the parking deck where the new dorms are and put the new dorms where the parking deck is. What a way to kill a large section of street! I love he huge UA on the side though...no mistaking where you are!

http://www.ohio.com/news/100008744.html



Does anyone know if some of the older residence halls(Gallucci, Grant) will be replaced or is this just purely new construction. Either way, this is a pretty substantial increase in residence space.

I think they remodeled those residence halls within the last 10 years. I'd be a little surprised if they razed them and started over now.

3rd campus Starbucks to open by Aug 23rd The bike shop will be transformed into a Verizon store.

The Grant Street residences is almost 40 years old and needs major upgrades which would be too costly to pursue.

The plan is to raze Gallucci, the Grant Street residences and the townhomes and move Greenleaf (the family services agency currently fronting on Exchange). The entire block and the Gallucci site will be transformed. This will occur starting in 2011 and be complete (at least scheduled to be) by 2015. South of that will be the new private development, Envision Apartments, currently under major renovation which will add another 300 beds to the mix starting in January, 2011.

The wonderful thing for the university is that they will have little or no cash outlay--just a land lease, in essence to the developers who will finance the entire project. Win-win for everyone!!

WOW, that will be impressive if the grand master plan comes to fruition. I also noticed that quite a few homes have been demolished near Summa on the East side of campus between Market and Buchtel. My guess there is that Summa will be expanding across Market street. The two big players in the University park Alliance are making things happen around campus.

Thanks, that's some awesome information. Glad to hear it.



It's going to be interesting to see how this city changes over the next 10-20 years. It's pretty likely that there will be something similar to what's going on at University circle in Cleveland. As young people continue to move back to the city, University Park might become a new hotspot.

UA gets its 150,000th graduate. Conveniently happening during its 200th commencement ceremony. You would think the university would have more alumni over 140 years of existence.