The funding will both improve student mental health services available on campus and provide scholarships for students in the new Clinical Mental Health Counseling master’s degree program.

The college is a member of the Appalachian Educator EmPOWERment Consortium which has been awarded funding via the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization initiative.

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC will expand its programming to provide faculty and staff opportunities to immerse themselves in nature as medicine.

The new concentrations will provide education students with streamlined pathways to their careers.

The grant will support the establishment of the college’s Student Resilience Center, which will help students with basic needs and mental health support.

The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor to the North Shore Manufacturing Workforce Partnership, a consortium of community colleges in Ohio, of which Owens Community College is part. The grant will support advanced manufacturing training.

The Boden Family Scholarship Fund is available to students from Wyandot County, with preference given to engineering students or those who will pursue an automotive-related career.

The program, which launched in 2022, provides free Columbus State Community College tuition for students who graduate from Columbus City Schools.

The partnership established a Memorandum of Understanding that will give Charleston Area Alliance employees, members, and their spouses tuition reduction to the university, and will see the CAA promoting the university as a university partner to its members.

The contribution toward the university’s hands-on agricultural education facility comes from Mike and Brenda Miller.