Shawnee State University’s Alumni Association is seeking nominations for the 2024 presentation of Alumni Awards. Every year, the association recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of SSU alumni who are making strives within their careers and throughout their communities.

Kaleigh Spires first found her career interest after accompanying her father to therapy sessions after an accident he had. Now in her junior year in the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at Shawnee State University, she sees how she can impact patients during their healing process.

Shawnee State University’s Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (VRCFA) welcomes the Broadway musical “The Cher Show” on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The performance starting at 7:30 p.m., will be held in the Eloise Covert Smith Theater of the VRCFA.

Shawnee State University’s Office of Admission has announced New Student Orientation dates for those students enrolling to the university in the Autumn 2024 semester.

Shawnee State University has been ranked among the best colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the fifth year in a row.

A native of Lucasville, Ohio, Kayla Conaway graduated from Shawnee State University with her bachelor’s degree in Education in 2015. 5 years later, she decided to return to her alma mater to obtain her Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction, graduating from the program in 2022.

Grace Smith, a native of Sciotoville, Ohio, is very direct in her opinion about Shawnee State University.

“Coming to Shawnee made me realize that this is the best decision I have ever made,” she said, “I have made so many friends, lifelong.”

Kaylee Christian, an Ironton, Ohio native, has found the I Am First Gen program – a mentorship program for first-generation college students – at Shawnee State University to be extremely helpful in guiding her though her college experience. Christian is the first person in her family to attend college pursuing a bachelor’s degree.

Sheena Shifko, the Radiologic Technology Program Director at Shawnee State University, was recently named the Coordinator of the Choose Ohio First (COF) program on campus, a program impacting STEM students at SSU through scholarships and representation.

A senior in the Biomedical Sciences (Pre-Med) program at Shawnee State University, transfer student Tiarra Faul has found the university to have opened the door to a world of opportunities for her future career.

“I feel like with this major I can go to medical school, physician’s assistant school, really anything on the biology track,” she said.