Youngstown State

Some schools are pushing back deadlines for students to commit to the schools and changing other ways they handle enrollment for next semester amid ongoing troubles with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Once, as a cub reporter, I got the bright idea of printing out Ohio’s entire 145-page Sunshine Law manual and made my own binder. I lugged that thing (it felt like it weighed as much as me) around for years, poring through it as I did rhetorical combat with public agencies to compel them to release information the public has a right to know.

Enrollment continues to decline for many Northeast Ohio universities, but there are some signs of stabilization locally and nationally, as well as two local stories of success Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga Community College.

Akron’s arts and culture newspaper The Devil Strip has laid off its staff, citing insufficient funds; Christian Aid Ministries isn’t saying much about the 17 members who were abducted over the weekend in Haiti; Foxconn, which is purchasing the Lordstown Motors factory, has announced its new line of electric vehicles; and more stories.

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