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In early October, Drs. Johnathan Tedesco and Bryan DePoy traveled to Chicago to participate in peer review training with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). As a first time reviewer, Dr. Tedesco, dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Read More

Fans of gothic horror will want to stumble into this house of murderers. Next month, the Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will present “Murder by Poe,” a thriller written by Ohio native Jeffrey Hatcher and based upon the writings Read More

The Lake Erie College community is saddened to report the death of Robert J. Trebar, PhD, who passed away Oct. 2, 2018. From the time Dr. Trebar arrived on campus in 2004, students, staff and faculty members alike looked forward to crossing his Read More

On Friday, October 5, 2018, the Lake Erie College School of Education and Professional Studies will provide a workshop for 85 high school students preparing to compete for college scholarships at the 2019 Ohio Educators Rising Conference. This Read More

Lake Erie College is proud to formally announce the receipt of a grant from the Fenn Educational Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, a charitable organization seeking to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland. Totaling $90,000, the Read More

Lake Erie College will host the 11th annual Storytelling Harvest Saturday, October 13, 2018 from noon to 2 p.m. This event for children and their families is free and open to the public. LEC volunteers will read and act out stories on the College Read More

Community members will soon embark on their own comedy adventures at Morley Library with Lake Erie College’s resident jokester and head of comedy studies. Associate Professor of Theatre Jerry Jaffe, PhD, will lead a comedy workshop at Read More

Three Northeast Ohio scientists will visit LEC to share their expertise during the Autumn 2018 Speaker Series, presented by the Lake Erie College Sustainability Committee (LECSC). Community members are invited to attend speaker sessions on Read More

Children and their families will have a new venue for imagination and reading, starting Saturday, September 8. Family Story Hour in the recently renovated James F. Lincoln Library will feature Lake Erie College’s enthusiastic pre-service Read More

The Lake Erie College Veteran Education and Transition Support (V.E.T.S.) Program will hold its second September 11 Memorial Ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. The ceremony will take place at the fountain in front of Kilcawley Hall Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will present a Solo Show Festival September 27-30, 2018 in the C.K. Rickel Theater of Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts. Solo headliners include playwright Eric Jaffe (New York), Read More

At the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Lake Erie College alumnus Patrick Yomba ’06 is leading an impressive career. As a polylingual police officer in charge of the Crime and Intelligence Unit at the LAPD Operations West Bureau, Yomba Read More

Lake Erie College alumni are invited to Cleveland’s Little Italy for happy hour at Washington Place Bistro & Inn on Thursday, September 13, 2018 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Cleveland has awarded Washington Read More

Lake Erie College will host leading technology entrepreneur Michael A. Keresman III, sharing the secrets to his success on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 in the Paul S. Weaver Auditorium of the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building. From Read More

Recent graduate Rachel Conaway ’18 has a clear vision for her future. Once she becomes a district manager in the next two years, she says, she’ll look to become a regional director, then a divisional vice president and then, eventually, Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will hold open auditions for its fall production of “Murder by Poe,” a terrifying Edgar Alan Poe mystery mashup by Jeffrey Hatcher. Associate Professor of Theatre and Director Jerry Jaffe, Read More

Lake Erie College will welcome alumni home to Painesville for Alumni Weekend, October 11-14, 2018. Festivities will include wine and paint, happy hour, a clambake, a performance by the Joe Augustine Trio and more. On Thursday, an alumni art show Read More

In recent years, Historic Hough in Cleveland’s Ward 7 has rebounded from a community transformed by shifting demographics to a place to prototype economic solutions. A native of the area, Lake Erie College rising junior and political science Read More

Assistant Professor of Visual Communication and Graphic Design Anthony Ezzo worked with the Geneva-on-the-Lake Police Department to create their entry video for the viral lip sync challenge. In a video posted to Facebook on August 4, 2018, officers Read More

For nearly two years, physician assistant alumna Julie Stupi MSPAS ’16 has provided outstanding care and compassion to patients of University Hospitals (UH) Geauga Medical Center. UH recently recognized her leadership with the Read More

Another cohort of physician assistant students will transition from didactic learning to clinical rotations following their first year at LEC. Marking this step, the 2018 White Coat Ceremony will take place Saturday, August 11 from 11:00 a.m. to Read More

Community members may arrange to audition this summer for the Lake Erie College Chorus, a component of the College’s expanding music department. The chorus’s first rehearsal of the fall semester will be held Monday, August 20 from 7 Read More

Wide-eyed elementary age students are exploring chemistry and biology through the scientific method at Lake Erie College summer camps. Faculty continue to stir enthusiasm amongst the children of Ridge Pointe Child Care in their quest to enhance Read More

Since June 4, 2018, Lacey Harris has been performing basic biomedical research in the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics. The biology major won entry to the Summer Undergraduate Read More

Are all successful entrepreneurs ruthless, self-motivated competitors out to win at any cost? Generally not, no. Disciplined to the core, those who win out invest in serving genuine needs. They execute details like no other, with eyes on every Read More

In the world of education, inspired vision is key. Dr. Beth Walsh-Moorman brings this to the table in spades. As the new assistant professor of literacy within the School of Education and Professional Studies at Lake Erie College, the lifelong Read More

Alumni Jean Makesh, John Paganini and Richard Stark have returned to Lake Erie College to help drive the College’s recently articulated mission and 2018-2021 strategic plan as members of the College’s Board of Directors. These three new Read More

Those working in the U.S. justice system bear more visibility than ever. With expanding access to public records and footage from traffic stops, courtrooms and police stations, pressure to do the right thing is on. The day after spring Read More

Five spring 2018 graduates of the Lake Erie College Master of Physician Assistant Studies program have been cleared for their licenses—to grant wishes. As official ‘wish granters’ for the non-profit Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mia Read More

From securing grants for classroom renovations to developing curricular programs from the ground up, Dr. Katharine Delavan has made a profound impact in her role as dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies. Today, Dr. Read More

On May 10, 2018, Dr. Katie Krammer faced a unique scheduling conflict – where does one go when being honored with two awards on the same day? In this case, Dr. Krammer was unable to accept the Lake Erie College Dean’s Pillar Award in Read More

Starting in Fall 2018, a new minor will introduce students at Lake Erie College to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Geospatial technology, as it is called, will fall under the environmental science major but can advance students from other Read More

In the martial arts, respect is earned, not given. Emerging artists know that getting noticed can take first priority, but how? Sarah Escandon ’16, standing at 5’2” and weighing just over 100 pounds (a fact listed on her resume), Read More

In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, Lake Erie College is offering two summer field biology workshops onsite at Morgan Swamp, located in the Grand River Conservation Campus. Elementary and secondary teachers may receive professional Read More

The School of Education and Professional Studies has paired with the Cleveland Area Minority Educator Recruitment Association (C.A.M.E.R.A) to identify, recruit and graduate minority teachers through a new and vital Teacher Diversity Initiative. In Read More

Seven aspiring teachers from LEC’s School of Education and Professional Studies presented strategies for empowering young children at the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children’s (OAEYC) annual conference. On April Read More

The Ohio House of Representatives has recognized the LEC School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics for receiving the 2018 Friends of Science Award from Partners in Science Excellence on January 9. Representatives John M. Rogers and Ron Young of Read More

As LEC plans a larger lab space for its expanding 11-month residential and commercial Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration (HVAC-R) Program, Trane Corporation will take on controls training for students preparing for Read More

At the 2nd Annual Pheasant Run Airport & Museum (PRAM) Field Day on April 18, 2018, students in ET 402 “New Venture Practicum and Entrepreneurship Experience” presented their year-long pursuits of PRAM preservation and vineyard Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Athletics has reached a five-year agreement with Nike through BSN SPORTS.  The exclusive partnership will supply the department and the 17 Storm athletic programs with apparel, uniforms, footwear and Read More

Lake Erie College will celebrate its 163rd commencement on Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. The event will take place in the Jerome T. Osborne Family Athletic & Wellness Center. Graduates and their families will be addressed by Michael A Read More

For over 40 years, the Lyric Theater reigned the weekend ‘moving picture’ scene in tiny Fairport Harbor, Ohio. It shut down in 1962 and fell into disrepair, joining the village’s many empty storefronts. As theatre director at Read More

Lake Erie College’s Spring Musical Arts Concert on Sunday, April 22, 2018 will feature the LEC Chorus directed by Mary Crow, vocal students directed by Lauren Feola ’04, piano students directed by Sanni Tenkku Kearns, and LEC Read More

On Monday, April 16 and Wednesday, April 18, 2018, the LEC Spanish department will hold conversations on relationship-building with Painesville’s Spanish-speaking community. Last fall, Spanish students at Lake Erie College spent time Read More

Three faculty members from the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences presented recently at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 48th National Conference, which took place March 28-31, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Drs. Jennifer Read More

For 50 years, the annual Jumper Prix de Villes of North America (or ‘Prize of the Cities’) has attracted superb equestrians to Lake Erie College. Spectators, dignitaries and riders will soon converge upon the George M. Humphrey Read More

The Lake Erie College Veteran Education and Transition Support (VETS) Program will host a Claims Clinic offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Benefits Administration on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 2 Read More

Lake Erie College announced today that The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has voted to reaffirm the College’s institutional accreditation. This decision, made at the HLC’s Institutional Actions Council (IAC) meeting on March 26-27, Read More

Assistant Professor of English Adam Stier, PhD, and Associate Professor of Special Education Katie Krammer, PhD, will judge the Morley Library Poetry Slam on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in support of Northeast Ohio’s Read More

As the opioid epidemic continues to take its toll across the country, two local organizations are taking a stand. Lake Erie College and the Lake County Crime Laboratory have partnered to present Opioid Outreach & Education Evenings, a series of Read More