University of Akron

Former Florida State All-American Terrell Buckley made Matt Jones’ night on Friday. After Hagerty finished its spring game against Sanford Seminole, Buckley, now an assistant coach at the University of Akron, pulled the sophomore cornerback/wide...

C.J. McCollum spent four years as a journalism major at Lehigh learning how to ask questions and find answers. He put that to good use at the NBA combine, when GlenOak High School's all-time leading scorer did his best to reverse roles with the general...

Big, beautiful bouquets for Emmeline Schumacher, 10, and her entrepreneurial spirit in the face of a horrible foe. This incredible, can-do girl -- the daughter of Jeff and Julia Schumacher of North Canton and a fourth-grader at Lake Center Christian...

She's that one teacher who's hard to forget. "Mrs. Kermizis has been the teacher that I have measured all of my teachers by, including my daughter's teachers," said Jennifer Narraway, a 1991 graduate of Akron's Our Lady of the Elms High School....

As contractors have begun chipping away at the old Erie warehouse in downtown Akron, railroad enthusiast Fred Stuckmann has been there, snapping pictures of the process. The building was once a freight house for the Erie Railroad and Erie Lackawanna...

University of Akron trustees unanimously approved a renewed effort to reduce the number of students taking remedial coursework that does not count toward a degree. The university wants to implement a new admissions formula that filters out first-year...

Part-time faculty at the University of Akron will hold a rally Wednesday to protest the school's decision to restrict the number of hours they can teach. Part-timers say the decision to cap their credit hours at eight will keep some of them from...

Friday morning, Barberton students took social studies instruction from a panel of foreigners who injected life into lessons through humbling and poignant tales of their childhood and home. The lecture was part of an ongoing collaborative that began...

Getting a job can be a tough feat in a slow economy, but a Willoughby manufacturing company is trying to push people into striving for long-term careers by opening an in-house training school. Classes for Precision Machining Institute, at Heisler Tool,...

Shaka Smart and VCU have agreed in principle to a deal to keep the coach at the school. Athletic director Ed McLaughlin says the details are still being finalized, but the majority of changes involve "program enhancements for the student-athletes and...

The 10th annual Esther Goldhaber Jacovitz Poetry Reading is scheduled to take place March 20 at the Whalley Memorial Chapel on the Pitt-Johnstown campus. This year’s featured speaker is George Bilgere, an award-winning poet whose work is...

As a former Towson University soccer player, I've been extremely troubled by the news that Towson University Athletic Director Mike Waddell wants to cut the men's soccer and baseball teams (Sports cuts prompt a Towson U. tug of war," Nov. 6). As a...