Rewarding Otterbein students for smart choices during pandemic

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News - October 21, 2020

Rewarding College Students for Responsible COVID BehaviorSpectrum News 1 OhioPublished Oct. 14, 2020

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Otterbein students serve on CNN undecided voter panel

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News - October 21, 2020

These voters are still undecided. Here's whyCNNPublished Oct. 16, 2020

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Otterbein Art and Activism Series Shines Light on Social Justice Issues

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News - October 20, 2020

By: Professor Margaret Koehler, Department of English chair  The English Department’s fall Writers and Scholars speaker series, Art and Activism, was born out of Otterbein English majors’ concerns about maintaining community in the age of Zoom and a compelling need to connect their literary education with the historic racial justice demonstrations that have been occurring nationwide this summer.   Responding to a survey put out by the Otterbein Department of English to check on the well-being of our students and hopes for the fall, one student responded “I think there are always ways to connect literature and writing to…

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New Otterbein Office Merger Provides Streamlined Support for Students

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News - October 20, 2020

Otterbein’s Center for Student Success (CSS) and Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) have merged offices to better serve students in a holistic way. The office is now called Student Success and Career Development (SSCD).  The merger not only creates efficiencies, but also returns to a model the offices shared a decade ago. When the CSS was first established in July 2010, the office was co-located with the CCPD and found many ways to collaborate when helping students.   “There has always been an ongoing conversation about co-locating student support offices,” said Assistant…

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National Transfer Week Celebrates Transfer Students and Support Systems

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News - October 19, 2020

Each semester Otterbein welcomes transfer students from both four-year universities and two-year community colleges. Those students become valued and active members of our community. That’s why Otterbein will be highlighting some of our transfer students online during National Transfer Week, Oct. 19-23.   Otterbein's smooth transfer evaluation process allows students to maximize credit earned elsewhere towards a degree at Otterbein, but that is only one of many reasons transfer students are attracted to the University.  "Students transfer to Otterbein for a number of reasons: our location, small class sizes, commitment to…

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Otterbein Proud to Serve Military Families with Scholarships for Folds of Honor and Ohio War Orphans Recipients

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News - October 15, 2020

Westerville, OH—Otterbein University is proud to support military families by offering the Otterbein Honoring Service Scholarship to Folds of Honor and Ohio War Orphans recipients. This scholarship will make an Otterbein education more affordable for the children of these families by providing $19,000 toward an undergraduate degree — a 58% discount off Otterbein’s 2020-21 tuition.  “It is truly an honor to provide the Otterbein Honoring Service Scholarship to students whose families have sacrificed so much. Supporting these students not only benefits them, but also the inclusive and diverse Otterbein community they…

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Otterbein University Enrolls Most Diverse Class in History, Exemplifying Mission of Inclusivity

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News - October 13, 2020

This fall, Otterbein welcomed the first-year students of the Class of 2024, which has the distinction of being the most diverse in the university’s 173-year history. The 133 students of color and of non-Caucasian ethnicity make up nearly 27% of the class — a 98.5% increase from the 67 ethnically diverse students entering class in 2012, when current Vice President for Enrollment Management Jefferson Blackburn-Smith came to Otterbein. He says the growth is about community and not numbers.  “It’s about the environment. We want this to be a home for students, not just a place they go to school. Otterbein is, and always has…

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New Graduate Athletic Training Program Gives Students Faster Start to Careers

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News - October 9, 2020

Otterbein University is launching a new Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) program in partnership with Columbus State Community College that will offer a fast and affordable path to the workforce.  “The new 2+3 Master of Science in Athletic Training partnership with Otterbein University creates an affordable pathway for students to careers in athletic training,” said Rebecca Butler, executive vice president of enrollment management and student services at Columbus State. “As the only partnership of its kind on Ohio, this represents an incredible opportunity for our students and the central Ohio community.”  This new…

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Student-Run Organization Donates $3000 to Fight Food Insecurity in Westerville

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News - October 7, 2020

Otterbein student-run organization Kneading Minds recently donated $3,000 to Westerville Area Resource Ministry (WARM), a local food pantry and family outreach center. The donation was the result of two years' worth of fundraising for the group.  “It’s quite amazing that college students, who are focused on their higher learning goals, have gathered together to recognize the need for hunger awareness by investing funds directly into the community they live and learn in,” said Dana Lawrence Forsythe, WARM’s director of development and communications. “We are so grateful for this extremely generous gift and continued support from Kneading…

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Otterbein Professor is Pioneer in Bringing Scientists into her Classroom Virtually

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News - October 6, 2020

Associate Professor Anna Young, director of the Zoo and Conservation Science program at Otterbein University, has long understood the benefits of remote learning. While video chat services are now a common teaching tool, Young began incorporating them into her classes in 2013, when video chats were a novel idea. Due to her innovative teaching methods, she recently received the 2020 Penny Bernstein Distinguished Teaching Award from the Animal Behavior Society.   Young recognized the need for students to see and hear diverse voices in the scientific community. With that in mind, she began hosting in-class Skype…

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