Make sure to visit VikesConnect for lots of other student organization activities & events throughout the week!

Good Monday Morning Vikings! We hope you had a great weekend and ready to take on week four of fall semester! This week there's events centered around community building, violence prevention, and demonstrating Viking values! National Hazing Prevention Week is September 19-23 and features events to promote safety and wellbeing on campus. All CSU Community members are welcome to join. There's also an Anti-Hazing poster contest you can enter. Details are in the News You Can Use section. It's also Hispanic Heritage Month. We've compiled some resources to help you celebrate!

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The Division of Campus Engagement, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is excited for an upcoming week of events centered around community building, violence prevention, and demonstrating Viking values! National Hazing Prevention Week begins Monday, September 19-23 and features several events to promote safety and wellbeing on campus. All CSU Community members are welcome to join for any/all of these events hosted throughout the week. Below is a sample of some of the events.

CSU students who attend two or more events during this week will be entered into a raffle for one of three prizes including $125 to use at the CSU Bookstore. The more events you attend, the more entries you gain!

For more information & other events, visit: csuohio.edu/hazingprevention 

Come chat with the sisters of Phi Sigma Rho, a S.T.E.M.-based social sorority (accepting women and nonbinary members)! They'll have events all week for you to learn about their chapter, including:

• Info Sessions on Monday (WH 105, 7:30-8:30pm) and Wednesday (Discord, 7:30-8:30pm)
• A presentation about CO-OPs and other academic benefits to joining them (Tuesday, Discord, 7:30-8:30pm)
• and a Game Night (Thursday, FH 103, 6:30-8:00pm)

Join their Discord to stay in the loop about events:  https://discord.gg/6Tgjx4PK.  Hope to see you there. Grab your consoles, dust off those cards, and break out the dice; it's time to Level Up!

Hosted by Phi Sigma Rho

A Sankofa Screening and Talkback

for Stomp the Yard

Thursday, September 22

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Berkman Hall 135

The film, "Stomp the Yard", highlights how traditional stepping merged with hip-hop dance expressions to engage students on college campuses across the nation with academic and civic life.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.          

For more information contact Prester Pickett, M.F.A., Coordinator of the Howard A. Mims African American Cultural Center at (216) 687-3656 or p.pickett@csuohio.edu.

September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month!

To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month we've compiled some of our favorite resources for elevating Latinx voices. We hope these help you uplift a diverse range of intersectional Hispanic and Latinx identities, experiences, cultures and histories.

• 2022 Guide: How to celebrate national Hispanic Heritage Month in Northeast Ohio. Courtesy of WKYC-TV There will be a plethora of events taking place in Northeast Ohio during National Hispanic Heritage Month. 
• Watch a Film - "Bibi" is a film that tells the story of a Latinx father and son who can talk about anything -- but only in writing, in the letters they pass back and forth when conversation seems too much.
• Engage in a Webinar - Latinx History is Black History. 
• Explore Cleveland - How to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Cleveland. 
• Read an Article - Unmaking "Hispanic: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity."

Come out and cheer on YOUR CSU Vikings this week at home! For more information, visit https://csuvikings.com/

Wednesday, September 21

Men's Soccer vs Ohio State

7:00 PM

Krenzler Field

Friday, September 23

Women's Volleyball vs Wright State

6:00 PM

Woodling Gym

Saturday, September 24

Women's Volleyball vs Northern Kentucky

4:00 PM

Woodling Gym

Men's Soccer vs Milwaukee

7:00 PM

Krenzler Field

Sunday, September 25

Women's Volleyball vs Wright State

6:00 PM

Woodling Gym

Go Vikings!!

To support Ohio’s new Collin’s Law (Ohio’s Anti Hazing Law) and CSU’s updated Student Code of Conduct, participating student organizations and individual students will create a poster for National Hazing Prevention Week. Submissions will be posted for public viewing during Hazing Prevention Week. Winners will be selected and notified by the end of September. Posters should be submitted by Friday, September 23rd at 11:59pm 

Prizes include: VIZIO TV, AirPods, Wireless Speakers

For poster contest rules, visit https://www.csuohio.edu/hazingprevention/poster-competition

CARE Corner

Did you know there is support for students who may need accommodations for their classes due to physical or mental health related concerns?

The Office of Disability Services can assist with determining who is an eligible person with a disability and with coordinating the accommodation needs of individuals with disabilities who participate in their programs.

For more information about their services please visit their website at https://www.csuohio.edu/disability/disability.

-CSU CARE Team #becauseweCARE

Become a CSU Wellness Peer Educator!

Peer Educators are students who care about their peers and support and encourage healthy, safe and positive decisions. They are trained with “Certified Peer Educator” national training program and assist with prevention programs and training around sexual violence, suicide prevention/mental health, substance use and general wellness topics.

If interested, register here  https://forms.gle/AV2GcnRUnj1FoJXu9

For more information, contact Denise Keary at d.keary@csuohio.edu

CSU has partnered with BetterYou – the healthy habits companion that helps support your goals across all areas of wellness. BetterYou is a mobile wellness app that helps people spend their time on the things that matter most.

You set goals that are important to you in the areas of physical, social, educational, and mental wellness, and BetterYou runs in the background to log your progress, providing gentle nudges and rewards along the way that positively influence behaviors. 

BetterYou is free to use but only available to the first 1000 students who sign up. Earn your first reward after completing onboarding in the app and get a $5 gift card to a retailer of your choice! Visit the registration page and sign up with your CSU Ohio email.

TTY services available: (711)1-651-315-9602

Fall 2022 DEI Workshops for CSU Students, Staff, and Faculty

The Diversity Institute is thrilled to continue to offer trainings for students, staff, and faculty at CSU. This Fall, they added a 4th training to round out their  series. One series will be during Sept/Oct and again during Nov/Dec. The full series now includes the following workshops, the descriptions/registration of which are linked below:

1. Leveraging Difference – 9/14 & 11/9
2. Privilege, Power, and Society -- 9/28 & 11/16
3. Bias in Action – 10/12 & 11/30
4. Allyship and Solidarity Across Identities – 10/26 & 12/7

For more information, contact Caitlin Hawkins at c.hawkins63@csuohio.edu