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Fowler Center Advisory Board Member Roberta Baskin Presents AIM2Flourish at LMU
Fowler Center Advisory Board member, Roberta Baskin, presented the AIM2Flourish program in a keynote address to a 30-team international competition of business school students focused on innovation and the SDGs at the Loyola Marymount University International Business Ethics and Sustainability Case ...
Fowler Center Sponsors BVU Business Summit
On Tuesday April 9, 2019 Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU), an organization that connects for-profit companies with nonprofits needing volunteers here in the Northeast Ohio region, hosted their annual Business Summit at the Tinkham Veale University Center at ӰƵ (CWRU)....
Fowler Center Presents Global Goals Workshop to Provost Scholars
On Thursday, April 4, 2019, the Fowler Center had the opportunity to present their “Employees for the Global Goals” workshop to the Provost Scholars. The Provost Scholars program is a partnership between ӰƵ (CWRU) and East Cleveland City Schools. The Provost Scholars tra...
Collaborating with NetImpact and CWRU Office for Energy and Sustainability
On March 19, the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit and Weatherhead Net Impact chapter co-hosted the CWRU Office of Energy & Sustainability for a Lunch & Learn about the university’s commitment to a neutral climate impact by the year 2050. Students asked many questions about the...
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Study: Banning criminal conviction questions on job applications increases hiring of ex-prisoners
Efforts to ban such questions show promise to ease re-entry into workforce for increasing number of Americans with criminal histories Former prisoners have a better chance of getting hired if a job application doesn’t include questions about criminal history, according to new employment research fr...
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Economics students team up with women’s literacy activist in southern Israel
On March 25, Amal Abu-Alkom—advocate for female entrepreneurship and education—will speak at ӰƵ and meet with students Last May, Jessica Stoner, then a first-year student at ӰƵ, traveled overseas for the first time. She and her Weatherhead ...
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Reducing number of repeat offenders by improving re-entry system
$1 million federal grant seeks to aid inmates re-entering society People who re-enter society from prison with unresolved issues are more likely to commit more crime and head right back to jail, according to government statistics. A new partnership between the ӰƵ School...
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Study: In making banks less risky for consumers, the Dodd-Frank Act produced mixed results—at best
The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in 2010 to promote economic stability and protect consumers in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, is showing mixed results, according to a new study by ӰƵ. Most banks in the United States are not taking fewer risks, while others ha...
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Ohio Attorney General awards funding to ӰƵ’s Human Trafficking Clinic
The Human Trafficking Program at the ӰƵ University School of Law is expanding its community outreach, education and survivor identification with a new round of state funding. The Ohio Attorney General’s Victims of Crime Act Fund (VOCA) recently awarded the initiative $425,000 to ...
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New Findings Shed Light on Origin of Upright Walking in Human Ancestors
Fossil hominin talus The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical balancing act. New research led by a ӰƵ Universi...