We named the seventh president in Cleveland State University's history, welcomed our largest freshman class ever, opened a new School of Film & Media Arts, unveiled a state-of-the-art Makerspace, and celebrated championships. 2018 was an exciting year at CSU. Here are the highlights.
Harlan M. Sands was announced as the seventh president of Cleveland State University on January 29. With nearly two decades of experience as an administrator and faculty member at urban research universities, President Sands arrived at CSU with a proven track record of advancing academic excellence, elevating faculty endeavors, championing research, and aligning strategies to meet the emerging needs of higher education in the 21st century.
The Cleveland Foundation awarded a $1.75 million grant to help attract top academic talent and create research labs for the Internet of Things Collaborative between Case Western Reserve University and CSU. The grant caught the attention of Cleveland.com and Crain's Cleveland Business.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the CSU School of Nursing's Online Master of Science in Nursing program at No. 45 in the nation and No. 3 in Ohio.
In the Washkewicz College of Engineering's new Donald E. Washkewicz Hall, letters from students, faculty and staff were sealed into a time capsule that is scheduled to be opened in 50 years.
CSU's fifth annual Startup Vikes brought nearly 100 entrepreneurs to campus to pitch ideas and get businesses up and running in the span of a single weekend. Top prize in the competition went to ReCap, a startup specializing in clothing that sends data to health-care workers and patients.
A team lead by Dr. Valentin Börner of CSU's Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase our understanding of how a protein complex called proteasome affects chromosome segregation in meiosis. See the Crain's Cleveland feature.
The latest edition of the U.S. News Best Graduate Schools guide featured more than a dozen CSU programs in a wide variety of disciplines, including public affairs, law and health care.
Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve and Mercyhurst University combined their expertise and resources to drive cyber innovation in the region. Check out coverage from Government Technology, Cleveland.com and Crain's Cleveland Business.
The Cleveland State men's basketball team went on a Cinderella run in the Horizon League tournament, advancing to the championship game and capturing the imagination of fans across the country.
After nine years at the helm of CSU, President Ronald M. Berkman retired on May 31. We hosted a special tribute event for our sixth president on April 11. Catch the highlights here.
Professors Eric Schearer and Christopher Wirth won the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
It may have become a familiar sight, but it never gets old. The CSU men's golf team won its fifth straight Horizon League Championship.
What's better than one 🏆? Two trophies! The CSU men's tennis team won its sixth Horizon League Championship.
Radiance set a new record this year with more than $1.7 million raised for student success initiatives.
We celebrated our Class of 2018. Among the graduates was Clinton Ransey, who completed his Bachelor of Arts in History more than 30 years after leaving CSU to pursue a professional basketball career.
Everyone was talking about the royal wedding this May. But Cleveland State professor Kimberly Ruggeri was one of just 1,200 people to be invited!
The beginning of a new era: Harlan M. Sands took office as the seventh president of Cleveland State University on June 1.
The arts and humanities came alive on campus and at Playhouse Square for our second AHA! Festival. This year's lineup included astrophysicist Janna Levin, actor Hill Harper, choreographer Derek Hough, NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, cartoonist Bob Mankoff, Senator Sherrod Brown, and journalists Connie Schultz, Maureen Dowd and Carl Hulse.
David H. Gunning, II succeeded Bernie Moreno as chair of our board of trustees.
We teamed up with economic development partners in the city to take an in-depth look at where Cleveland's economic future lies.
In collaboration with DANCE Cleveland, we presented the second annual American Dance Festival.
The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law joined the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium.
Kim A. Wilcox, the chancellor of UC Riverside, had high praise for Cleveland State University in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Our largest freshman class arrived for the start of the 2018-19 academic year, and they immediately caught Viking fever.
President Harlan M. Sands sat down for an interview about his journey to CSU.
CSU students built a device that detects cosmic rays, synthesized novel nanoporous materials, and created an animated short. We celebrated these and other undergraduate summer projects at our annual research poster session.
We celebrated the opening of the Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellence with an inaugural seminar by Robert Cialdini, one of the world's leading researchers on influence and persuasion.
Our City. Our Campus. Our Home. That was the theme for this year's homecoming festivities, where we celebrated 12 Distinguished Alumni, honored outstanding faculty members and showed off our Viking pride.
USA Today took a look at the top 100 colleges and universities in the country with the largest increase in student applications. We came in at No. 43!
Students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Cleveland State celebrated the Investiture of our seventh president, Harlan M. Sands, on Oct. 5.
Candidates for Ohio governor, Mike DeWine and Richard Cordray, faced off in their final debate inside our Glasscock Family Foundation Ballroom on Oct. 8. CSU students had the chance to experience democracy at work first-hand and shared their reactions to what they saw with local media.
The ribbon-cutting for our new School of Film & Media Arts drew a standing-room-only crowd to the sixth floor of Playhouse Square's Idea Center.
A few days after the film school unveiling, we opened our state-of-the-art Dan T. Moore MakerSpace inside Washkewicz Hall.
We joined a national effort to increase college access, close the achievement gap, and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025.
The NBA announced that Cleveland will host the 2022 All-Star Game. We're excited to partner with the Cleveland Cavaliers to host the best players in the world in the Land! They will practice at our Wolstein Center, which will also host the Celebrity Game.
Our women's soccer team finished its best season in program history, reaching the Horizon League Championship game for the first time. While the Vikings lost a heart breaker in Milwaukee, they had a lot to be proud of. Just look at all of these awards!
Mike Alden, a highly respected athletics administrator who most recently served as athletic director for the University of Missouri, was appointed senior advisor to the president for athletics.
We were proud to celebrate our most recent graduates during fall commencement. Among them was our first cohort of Sullivan-Deckard Scholars.
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