Ohio Northern University

Ohio Northern University has been ranked in the top 10 of the “Best Value Colleges in the State of Ohio” in a 2016 study conducted by SmartAsset, a financial date and technology company.

According to the second annual study, ONU placed ninth among all schools in Ohio, finishing with a “College Education Value Index” of 44.56.

According to SmartAsset, the study looked at five factors to determine the best value colleges and universities: tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, retention rate, and starting salary.

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2016 Carhart Program in Legal Ethics in the Celebrezze Large Moot Court Room on Thursday, April 21, at noon. The program will feature “Zealous Advocacy and Testing Boundaries: The Role of a Criminal Defender” presented by Judge Amul R. Thapar, United States district judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

This event is open to the public.

Thapar is the country’s first South Asian Article III judge. President George W. Bush nominated him to the federal bench on May 24, 2007, and the United States Senate confirmed him by unanimous consent on Dec. 13, 2007.

The Ohio Northern University Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents The Broadway Boys on Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Freed Center’s Biggs Theatre. Celebrate the 25th season anniversary grand finale with cake in the lobby before the performance.

Upper-level design students from Ohio Northern University will host a Grafik Intervention on Friday, April 22, from 8 to 10 p.m. in Ada.

The event will take place at the historic Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, located in the business district.

In addition, an exhibit will highlight the history and significance of the depot beginning at 8 p.m. Parking will be limited to the east end of the depot’s parking lot.

The event is free and open to the public.

Ohio Northern University will offer a full day social media workshop on April 30 in the Dicke Forum on the ONU campus.

If search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising are fuzzy concepts, the workshop will bring these and other social media topics into clearer focus.

Scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., the workshop will open with a keynote address, “Using Social Media to Predict the Future,” by Bill Balderaz, president of Futurety, Columbus, Ohio, and founder of Fathom Healthcare. 

Upper-level design students from Ohio Northern University will host a Grafik Intervention on Friday, April 22 from 8 to 10 p.m. in Ada, Ohio. The event will take place at the historic Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, located in the business district.

In addition, an exhibit will highlight the history and significance of the depot beginning at 8 p.m. Parking will be limited to the east end of the depot’s parking lot.

The event is free and open to the public.

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