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The University of Toledo’s physician assistant program is located in the Collier Building on the Health Science Campus.

UT physician assistant program loses accreditation Volleyball seniors play last game in Savage

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“This is not a small misstep by the university: it is a massive embarrassment to a school that prides itself on the quality of its medical programs.”

EDITORIAL Accreditation: What it means for students OPINION / 3 »

First Gen Day at UT

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COMMUNITY / 6 »

“It’s like a game of telephone, and the impression of UT and city of Toledo would be a negative one.”

MARK MOSS Bancroft Street, a crack in the Glass City image OPINION / 3 »

By Bryce Buyakie News Editor

The physician assistant accrediting body submitted a report critical of the University of Toledo’s physician assistant program and recommended withdrawing the program’s accreditation after being put on probation in March.

The Accreditation Review Commission for Physician Assistants sent a notice letter Oct. 6 to UT President Sharon Gaber informing the university of the withdrawal based on a site review conducted June 19.

According to the letter, the decision to withdraw the program’s accreditation included insufficient faculty and lack of oversight by the Institution and Interim Program Director, lack of required curriculum elements, the inability to

conduct meaningful program self-assessments and the inability to meet appropriate security and personal safety measures.

The university has not updated the physician assistant studies’ accreditation status on the program’s website from accreditation-probation to withdrawn accreditation.

“The immediate effect is that the program is not able to admit new students,” said Linda Speer, department chair for the physician assistant program and chair of family medicine.

However, students who were enrolled prior to the decision can take their exams and graduate, she said.

Former Department Chair of the Physician Assistant Studies program Patricia

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The cars of seven University of Toledo students had windows shot out Oct. 26.

According to a police report attained by 13 ABC, the cars were on the first floor of the east ramp parking garage.

Bullets from a BB gun were found at the scene around the cars, said a UT police officer.

HEIDI CLAUSIS Music Department Part-time Instructor

time instructor in the English department in his first semester at UT, one of the main issues is the low pay, though many instructors shared this concern.

According to NPR, the average salary for an adjunct professor is $20,000 to $25,000 annually. This is compared to an average salary of $84,303 for fulltime instructors according to the AAUP. This results in part-time instructors taking other jobs to support themselves.

The AAUP reports at least 60 percent of part-time instructors have to find additional work.

“I teach here, but I also have to teach at Bowling Green State University,” Cook said. “With them I teach an additional eight credit hours, so I am actually teaching 17 credit hours total. It’s over 100 students.”

Instructors at UT report working for Bowling Green University, Lourdes and Owens Community College, teaching additional classes to supplement their income.

“I think the nature of

it is difficult, especially if you set your eyes on a full professorship,” said Jennifer Royston, a part-time instructor in the English department. “I do want job security and I do want to work full time, so of course this is not what I want to do forever.”

Additionally, instructors such as Heidi Clausis from the music department use their skills in other ways.

Clausis is a vocalist who teaches private lessons both at the University and from her home.

“If I did not teach private lessons I could not cover my costs,” Clausis said. “If they give me a full-time position it would enable me to cut back on some of my private tutoring and not work so many hours.”

Another big issue faced by adjunct professors is the lack of job security, according to Royston.

Royston is in a unique position as a part-time instructor, covering for a full-time instructor out on leave. She has a contract for both the fall and spring semesters this year.

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COOPERATION

UTMC partners with nonprofit care network

HASSAN HASSABELNABY

COBI Interim Dean

opportunity to serve our students, faculty, alumni and business leaders in the community as interim dean of the College of Business and Innovation,” he said.

Students’ car windows shot out on campus

By Bryce Buyakie

“If they give me a full-time position it would enable me to cut back on some of my private tutoring and not work so many hours.”

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IN BRIEF

The University of Toledo’s College of Business and Innovation has hired Hassan HassabElnaby as the new interim dean of the college.

The former dean, Gary Insch, served for three years before he resigned Oct. 26. However, Insch will stay in the college as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Management, according to a UT Press Release.

HassabElnaby joined UT as an assistant professor of accounting in 2003 and has researched financial reporting and corporate governance.

“I look forward to the

According to the American Association of University Professors, more than 50 percent of instructors at colleges and universities are adjunct professors. This growing national trend, coupled with a hiring freeze and budget cuts at the University of Toledo, has led the school to rely more on part-time employees.

Adjunct professors, or part-time instructors, are non-tenure track faculty members contracted with the university on a semesterly basis.

The AAUP found that in 2011 only 30 percent of faculty members were on track to tenure. The AAUP also stated that the number of part-time instructors continues to rise each year, as universities rely on them more.

Adjuncts face a unique set of challenges. According to Patrick Cook, a part

This is an ongoing investigation and police are trying to track down the shooter.

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The University of Toledo Medical Center is the home of a detox unit for 10 patients.

By Samantha Gerlach Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo Medical Center partnered with the Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network to better serve the people in Toledo suffering from alcohol and drug addiction.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Patient Care Network is a nonprofit organization that provides addiction treatment to patients, according to their website.

The foundation already has programs in Minnesota, California, Oregon, Illinois, Florida and New York.

In April, UTMC opened a 10-bed, inpatient, acute detox unit for adults ages 18 and older who are addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines and alcohol, said Dr. Tanvir Singh, the unit’s medical director and a physician at UTMC. The purpose of this detox center is to provide immediate care for drugaddicted patients and to stabilize withdrawal symptoms. The unit has admitted approximately 360 patients in the past seven months, with a 94 percent success rate, Dr. Singh said.

“As a member of the Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network, we will have access to resources, best practices, and

most effective treatment approaches that will be invaluable additions to our current care provided in the UTMC Adult Detoxification Inpatient Unit to aid our patients as they work toward a successful, long-term recovery,” said Dan Barbee, CEO of UTMC. The foundation chose to work in Ohio with the University of Toledo Medical Center because of the opioid epidemic’s impact on the state, said Bob Poznanovich, executive director of national outreach and business development at Hazelden Better Ford Foundation.

“I’m seeing a pattern across the country where university medical centers are using more tactics to help with the fight against addiction,” Poznanovich said.

“Ohio is one of the hardest hit states with the opioid epidemic, and we saw the need for help in the fight against addiction.”

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation presents their treatment methods to patients in the form of three big “buckets” of tools: emphasizing organizational techniques at the leadership level, providing clinical tools for clinical staff and providing patient and family tools for those in recovery, said Deb Newton, the foundation’s patient care network manager.

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EDITORIAL

Accreditation: What it means for students

A student in the University of Toledo’s physician’s assistant program can pay almost $50,000 in in-state tuition or $80,000 in out-of-state tuition for the program. One would think that for such an exuberant price tag, you would receive an education that is at least up to federal standards.

Unfortunately, this is simply not the case. After being placed on accreditation probation in March 2017, the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant has removed UTPSA’s accreditation status.

The commission published a 33-page letter to the university, highlighting the shortcomings and failures of the program to adequately teach the 128 students in the physician’s assistant program.

The letter accentuated the program’s insufficient faculty, lack of administrative oversight and poor curriculum as reasons for removing the program’s accreditation status.

The review also concluded that it didn’t seem as if any corrective action was going to take place at all.

What does this mean for the current students? Luckily, they will still be eligible to take their certification exam when they graduate because they enrolled in the school while the program still had its accreditation.

Being able to take the exam is only the first step for students; passing is a whole other challenge to overcome. The program’s shortcomings are evident not only in reports from federal agencies but also from how well students perform in these certification exams.

The amount of University of Toledo students that passed the Physician’s Assistant National Certifying Exam on their first try hit a new low of 74 percent in 2016, a far cry from the national average of 96 percent. The severity of these contrasting scores show just how dismal the program seems to be in preparing students for the exam.

The information regarding accreditation status is of the utmost importance to students in the UTPA program and is even more important for the students applying to the program. For current students, they now must worry about whether or not they will be able to take their

exams when they graduate and whether or not having Toledo on their resume will be a detriment to finding a job.

For students that are going through the hectic process of deciding where to apply and what applications to fill out, knowing a school’s accreditation status is critical. If these new students were to check the official page for the UTPA program, they would think the program is still on probation.

In fact, even though the letter from the accreditation agency published the letter recommending a withdrawal of accreditation Oct. 6, it took the university almost two weeks to release a statement about the loss.

This lack of urgency from the department puts the shortcomings of the program on full display and gives merit to the claims made by the accreditation agency.

In fact, even though the letter from the accreditation agency published the letter recommending a withdrawal of accreditation Oct. 6, it took the university almost two weeks to release a statement about the loss.

This is not a small misstep by the university: it is a massive embarrassment to a school that prides itself on the quality of its medical programs. There is no reason for this program to falter so severely, and there is no reason these issues couldn’t have been identified before a total loss of accreditation to the program occurred. It’s our hope that this program will be restored to a level that makes prospective students want to send their applications to Toledo, instead of remaining in a state where their applications cannot even be accepted.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, I read Morgan Kovacs’s opinion piece, “Dismantling the Ivory Tower,” in last Wednesday’s Independent Collegian with dismay and sorrow. She writes of repeated sexual harassment from a faculty member who has now resigned from the University. It is hard to read that these aggressive and manipulative words and actions took place in our midst, and that Morgan suffered them alone and silently. It is hard to read that her trust in herself, in her writing, in her other teachers and in her education at UT was undermined. This is a plea to all English majors (and by extension all UT students): please imitate Morgan’s brave resolve in writing this piece by resolving not to keep such disturbing experiences a secret. My office door is open.

— Sara Lundquist, Chair, English Department

COMMENTARY

Job hunting after college A student’s senior year in college is full of firsts and lasts. The last homecoming game, the first cover letter, the last meeting with your adviser and the first time you head into a real job interview.

College is great and so are the internships you have during that time, but nothing is scarier than finding your first real job. You have the enthusiasm, the experience (if you did enough internships), the grades and the recommendations, but putting that into words may be hard.

Interviews terrify me. I know that’s ironic because I interview people often as a journalist, but it is completely different when I’m the one being interviewed.

For me, the worst nightmare is the best motivator. My mom is lovely, but I have big dreams. That onebedroom apartment which costs too much in a city six hours away will be mine come May.

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I have big dreams. That one- bedroom apartment which costs too much in a city six hours away will be mine come May. I’ve been seriously searching for future jobs since June of this year. I’m way ahead of the game.

I’ve had my LinkedIn pro-

Interviews terrify me. I know that’s ironic because I interview people often as a journalist, but it is completely different when I’m the one being interviewed.

When they ask me what my greatest weakness is, I’m afraid that I’m going to blurt out “dogs” or “cute guys” or something equally cringeworthy.

I’m slowly starting to prep myself to have replies to questions like, “Why do you want to work here?”

(Besides the obvious, “Because I need a job.”)

I already know that I have the skills and motivation needed. I know what I’m worth. So all I need is to convince my future employer that they need me as much as I need them.

If that doesn’t motivate me, my nightmare of failing to snag a job after graduation does. I don’t get to move off to the big city; instead I move back home to live with my mom and work at the local grocery store bagging up fruit for little old grandmas.

For me, the worst nightmare is the best motivator. My mom is lovely, but

file perfectly composed and my résumé professionally analyzed.

I’m not actually applying to any jobs until five months before graduation (no one wants to hire too far ahead of time), but I know what I’m looking for.

I’ve gotten plenty of advice so far, from people in all different career paths and stages in their careers.

Here are some of the top

ers use LinkedIn as their primary search tool, this is not an understatement.

If you’re a professional, you not only need to be on LinkedIn, you need to be using it to your full advantage.

Think about it this way: If tomorrow morning a recruiter logs onto LinkedIn looking for someone in your geography with expertise in what you do and you’re not there, guess who they’re going to find and contact? Not you.

2. Don’t get a master’s degree if you only want to prolong your job search.

This applies more to a career like journalism. But if you received practical experience in internships in college, graduate school may be unnecessary.

I hear so many English students say they don’t want to teach and still go to grad school. If you are continuing your education because you don’t know what else to do, it’s a bad idea.

Don’t make grad school a default move. If you must go to grad school to be able to even land a job (such as psychology, history, or theory work), do so.

and/or postal mail) of thanks that emphasizes your interest and fit with the job and employer will not get you the job offer, but it will help make you stand out from the majority of job-seekers who do not bother with this simple act of courtesy.

I’ve customized mine towards my personality and handwrite the ones I send by mail.

4. Be open to options.

Moving even three hours away from home will be a pretty big change for me, considering I only moved one and a half hours away for college.

For my career field, I need to look in a variety of different places. Even in a city as nicely sized as Toledo, there’s only a handful of places for me to look for job.

And that’s even thinking that they might have a job opening available.

The end of my schooling is scary, but it also opens up a gigantic world of incredible possibilities. In the end, I should never settle for something, including a job. You shouldn’t either.

Shoot for the stars, and all other sappy words of

For my career field, I need to look in a variety of different places. Even in a city as nicely sized as Toledo, there’s only a handful of places for me to look for job. And that’s even thinking that they might have a job opening available.

tips I’ve gotten from professionals.

1. If you’re not on LinkedIn, you don’t exist in the job market.

Considering that more than 90 percent of recruit-

Try to find an assistantship if you can to lessen the burden of another looming tuition payment.

3. Write thank you notes to interviewers.

A quick note (by email

encouragement. Be the you that you are meant to be.

Emily Schnipke is a fourth-year communication major with a minor in English.

OPINION

Bancroft Street, a crack in the Glass City image For four years I have been attending the University of Toledo and for that entire time Bancroft Street has been absolutely atrocious, from Secor all the way downtown. The stretch in front of UT is especially an issue because of its importance to so many students.

Currently, the city is putting new piping under Bancroft and redoing the roads and walkways as part of an ongoing project. For weeks, the road has been steadily torn up and worked on.

At first, I did not mind all the orange barrels and traffic detours because I assumed the road would be repaved and at last there would be a nice, smooth street to drive on.

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It turns out I was wrong about having a smooth road. While part of the road has been repaved, it’s about as good of a job as a toddler would do.

Simply unacceptable.

Even with all the construction, parts of Bancroft remain

untouched for the snowplows and salt trucks to destroy even more this winter. I don’t know about you, but I wish I owned an off-road vehicle because that seems like what you need to drive down Bancroft.

I feel like my car is going to break into a million pieces every time. The bottom line is that Bancroft Street is terrible and the city must do something about it.

The University of Toledo is one of the crown jewels of the city, along with the Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Zoo and the metroparks.

If I were a parent from out of town going on a college visit with my son or daughter and Bancroft Street was my first im-

pression of the university and city of Toledo, let me tell you, it wouldn’t be good.

It’s like a game of telephone, and the impression of UT and city of Toledo would be a negative one.

I don’t know about you, but I wish I owned an off-road vehicle because that seems like what you need to drive down Bancroft. I feel like my car is going to break into a million pieces every time.

I would probably take that account with me to my friends and family back home. Next thing you know, they will have told their friends and family about the negative experience I had.

That means people will be reluctant to consider UT and the city for visitation or for attending college.

Without doing some of their own homework, people wouldn’t realize that UT is a great institu-

tion, and the city is not as bad at all.

The bottom line is that Bancroft Street is a crack in the Glass City image.

First impressions matter, and from those first impressions come reputations and stereotypes. If we want the city and university to rid themselves of negative first impressions, start with curbside appeal and repave Bancroft Street.

From there we can start to rebuild the negative image of this city from outsiders and attract new people to visit and attend UT. Mark Moss is a fourthyear professional sales major with minors in English and marketing.

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College of business trains Chrysler workers

By Salma Abuyasein Staff Reporter

During the last six weeks, the University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation has collaborated with the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Toledo Assembly Complex to prepare more than 2,200 workers to build the next generation Jeep Wrangler, which will be launching sometime later this year.

The program, which is known as the “Toledo Way,” consisted of six weeks of eight-hour days of hands-on technical training.

The sessions were led by Anand Kunnathur, professor in the department of information, operations and technology management and associate dean for special projects in the UT College of Business and Innovation.

“All 2,200 trainees were put through training in safety and environmental, quality control and people development, behavioral and focused improvement areas,” Kunnathur said.

The classes were taught by instructors from the Univer-

sity of Toledo and Northwest State Community College.

“It would have been impossible for us to execute this training while also preparing for an important vehicle launch without the cooperation of the UT and Northwest State Community College staff,” said Chuck Padden, Toledo Assembly Complex plant manager.

Kunnathur said there was a great deal of enthusiasm among the trainees and that this training was positioning them to be part of the workforce of tomorrow while being applicable right away at TAC. “Each of the six four-hour sessions were sprinkled with theory, discussions, interactive activities, group (team) projects and instant rewards,”

Kunnathur said.

This isn’t the first time that the Toledo plant and UT have worked together for training support. They also formed a collaboration back in in 2013.

“I am very thankful for the logistics support provided by our partners, namely NWSCC, in taking care of the physical arrangements for the training and for the dedicated trainers who worked 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each training day, delivering 8 hours of training each day,” Kunnathur said.

Gary Insch, former dean of the College of Business and Innovation, said Jeep is one of America’s most iconic brands, and the College of Business and Innovation is proud to be its partner and is committed to its success.

“All 2,200 trainees were put through training in safety and environmental, quality control and people development, behavioral and focused improvement areas.”

Anand Kunnathur Professor in Department of Information

Administration

State representative speaks at UT Faculty Senate

By Olivia Rodriguez Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo Faculty Senate hosted State Representative Dan Ramos to discuss the issues of higher education and having students’ voices heard in politics.

This forum was held Oct. 26 in UT’s Student Union where financial aid, the priorities of state representatives and post-secondary enrollment options were discussed.

Before the forum, the audience discussed a state tax bill that would help students afford textbooks and a bill allowing teachers to receive certifications from for-profit groups.

They did not like the bill about for-profit groups certifying teachers because “there have been a lot of quality issues with the teachers that come out of this program,” according to Diane Miller, associate vice president for government relations.

Linda Roullard, president-elect of Faculty Senate, asked if a com-

mittee meeting has been cancelled because of a lot of people testifying.

“If the bill is controversial and they don’t think they have the votes, they’ll take the bill off the [senate] committee; if there’s a member who introduces a bill and they’re not particularly a fan of it or they don’t like the bill, it usually gets one hearing,” said Jared Holt, director of government relations, in response to Roullard’s question.

When discussing why there isn’t more focus on higher education, Ramos talked about the mindset of the senators.

“If your priority is lowering taxes, then you’re going to lower taxes. If your priority is overhauling K-12, then you’re going to overhaul K-12. If your priority is higher education, then you’re going to do more for higher education,” Ramos said.

Ramos discussed why the senate had reservations about removing the tax with UT’s faculty. “‘Skin in the game,

Withdrawal

from page 1

Hogue was removed and replaced by Linda Speer Oct. 13, one week after the university received the letter, wrote Gaber in a statement to the UT community.

In response to the withdrawal, FormerInterim Program Director Linda Dill was also replaced by April Gardner, according to the physician assistant website.

The accrediting body wrote that “the lack of institutional oversight contributed to the inability of the program to accurately and succinctly provide evidence of an ongoing selfassessment process.”

Senior institutional officials were also not familiar with Dill’s role as interim program director and were not able to say whether she provided appropriate leadership. There was also no clinical coordinator, according to the letter.

ARC-PA also found that the program did not provide students with an adequate education.

Some clinical students said they gained “superficial knowledge.”

Another reason for the decision is the program’s certification exam pass-rate as 100 percent of the program’s students passed on the first try in 2012, but this changed in 2013 to 95 percent, 85 percent in 2014 and 92 percent in 2015.

This year has been better for the physician assistant program however, with 98 percent of graduates passing the exam, Speer said.

The accrediting program also said the pro-

nothing counts unless you have skin in the game.’

These are the most dangerous words I have ever heard in higher education,” said Ramos.

Ramos went on to reveal the effects of the “skin in the game” phrase: there was a derailment of attempts to lower the cost of education to add more scholarships and other education costsaving measures.

Faculty Senate discussed if having students go to Columbus to testify could help get the state senate to do something about removing the textbook sales tax.

“I think it might; my only caution is making it seem like that’s the thing that makes college unaffordable,” Ramos said.

Roullard said she was pleased with how the discussion turned out.

“We had the Faculty Senate forum to engage more faculty and to foster discussion on issues related to higher education,” she said.

The next Faculty Senate forum will be held in the spring semester.

“We differ in opinion on the ARC-PA account and we believe we did have the right number of people they required at the time...”

Linda Speer Physician Assistant Studies Department Chair

gram lacked full-time employees.

“We differ in opinion on the ARC-PA account and we believe we did have the right number of people they required at the time,” Speer said. “Also as an institution that has education for many other professions, we also can and do tap resources from other programs that are not part of that department.”

The university is expected to submit an appeal to ARC-PA by Friday, Speer said.

“We believe that we are making a strong case that the program was in much better shape than based on what the document said,” she said. “The evidence to substantiate compliance with the accreditation standards was present in our materials, such as course syllabi and student manuals but was not presented to them in an organized way.”

According to the document, the physician assistant program was not capable of rapid corrective action. But, Speer said the program is going to demonstrate this is not the case by correcting these issues as fast as possible.

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Lecturer discusses genderbased student debt inequality

By Jessica Harker Opinion Editor

Research published by the American Association of University Women found that since 1976 the cost of college tuition has risen by 135 percent, while the median household income has only risen by 12 percent.

The result is a rise in the amount of student loans, and therefore a rise in student debt.

Last Saturday, The Women of Toledo along with the Toledo chapter of AAUW hosted an informative event, Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans, in the Driscoll Alumni Center at 9:30 a.m.

AAUW is a non-profit organization advocating for equality for all women and girls.

According to Michelle Radtkin, the president of AAUW Toledo branch, the goal of the event was to bring awareness to the new information and to form a community action plan.

“There’s more women in higher ed than ever before,” said AAUW Toledo branch secretary Anna Brogan-Knight. “We know that women used to be excluded from high education, and one of the first research presentations by AAUW was to debunk whether women were to be made infertile by higher education, so it’s been a long road.”

Women make up roughly 50 percent of all college populations, according to BroganKnight, and not only has the rise in number of students relying on loans increased, but the research shows that the debt is often disproportionately distributed.

“Student loans are becoming more and more common. $1.3 trillion in student loan

Adjuncts from page 1

“I’m fortunate that the University of Toledo, and my department specifically, treats me very well. They were sensitive to my schedule, I feel very welcomed here,” Royston said.

Last semester in the English department, one of the largest employers of adjuncts at UT, 23 adjuncts covered 49 classes in fall 2016 according to Catherine Chengges, administrative coordinator. In Spring 2017 Chengges said that number dropped to 10 instructors teaching only 14 classes.

This means that in the English department alone, 13 instructors were unemployed in the spring and almost 80 percent of classes taught in the fall were no longer needed.

“You don’t have that sort of job security. I know this is a one year position...but it’s a little scary not to know like where I am going to be next year,” Royston said.

Adjuncts who work professionally outside of the university as teachers elsewhere don’t face this problem as severely. One such instructor is Montissa Wallace, a part-time instructor in the communication department who also works at 107.3 The Juice as the production director.

However, Wallace still expressed issues with managing her time between working at the station and working at UT, going so far as to tape part of her show early so that she can stay later in class before going to work.

Cook and his wife Alysha are both employed as adjunct professors at UT, a unique situation that has its own challenges, highlighting issues surrounding trying to start a family as an adjunct.

“My wife and I are actually expecting. She’s due in one month, so luckily it’s at the end of the semester,” Cook said, “Next semester we’re trying to plan so that one of us is home

debt and women account for two-thirds of that.” Brogan-Knight said.

Black women were shown to have the highest amount of student loan debt with 50 percent of black women who graduate from college currently in repayment, according to the research.

“Black women, by far, take out the most student loan debt. That goes along with the rest of research that we know. If women make a little less than men then black women and Latino women make even less.”

Brogan-Knight said.

After the presentation of research by BroganKnight, two previous UT students shared their personal struggles with student loan debt.

According to a study published by LendEDU earlier this year, the University of Toledo ranked 121 out of 220 for the lowest student debt for four-year public institutions in the U.S. The study found the average student took out $24,437 in student loans for the 2016-17 school year, pointing to the national issue AAUW showcased through its findings.

“Talking about research this is something I really, really enjoy because AAUW national is doing a phenomenal job coming up with all of this research.” Radtkin said.

Radtkin explained that the organization always includes an advocacy summary to provide solutions and take the research beyond just numbers.

“It’s interesting to have this conversation and look how we can apply this and take a look at how we can use economic development to empower women in Toledo,” she said.

all the time with the newborn.

Of course we don’t get any maternity leave or anything like that.”

However, Cook expressed that the department has been very understanding in working with him and Alysha in the case of her having the baby early.

One of the biggest concerns when having a child is healthcare costs. With both parents not considered to be full-time employees, neither Cook nor his wife have coverage through any university.

This semester, however, because Cook is teaching nine credit hours, instead of the usual eight-hour limit for adjuncts, he said he was given paperwork for coverage but has not looked into it.

The credit hour limit allows the university to not offer health care to adjuncts in accordance with the Affordable Care Act. Cook explained that he had not looked into the benefits because it would be a “significant portion of your paycheck to be paying out for healthcare.”

Because part-time instructors do not have access to health insurance, they often pay for it out of their own pockets. This can be almost impossible with a minimal income and constantly changing national healthcare policies.

According to an article by CNBC, the average annual deductible for individual healthcare plans was $4,358 in 2016.

As far as the University of Toledo, adjuncts reported that the situation is not better or worse than other schools.

According to college factual, UT actually only uses 31 percent part-time instructors, which is down from the national average of 51 percent.

All adjuncts stated that issues facing adjuncts are not unique to UT but are part of a national issue.

“The job market is very tough, it’s tough. I feel completely fortunate that I got this position,” Royston said. “I got very lucky that there was a job within driving distance teaching Shakespeare and I know that’s not the norm.”

Though the department is good, the need is there, as evident by Cook teaching nine credit hours his first semester at UT just to cover all the Composition I and II courses for the fall semester.

An article by Forbes found that the problem with relying on adjuncts tends to focus on the issue that they have less time and resources available to them.

“The workload can easily get overwhelming,” Cook said.

A limited amount of office space leaves many adjuncts without a place to meet students. Coupled with working multiple jobs on various campuses, many adjuncts are simply not able to dedicate their time to the students.

“The English adjunct is of course going to be a little bit different – grading is very intensive,” Cook said. “I am probably looking at an easy 50 hours a week altogether. It’s an interesting situation to be in.”

Despite the nationwide issues that adjuncts face, two things seem to unite them all: a love for teaching and a desire to be full-time.

“I love being here and I love what I teach,” Wallace said, “Eventually, I would like to teach more.”

A sentiment shared across the board.

“My wife and I are actually expecting.

She’s due in one month, so luckily it’s at the end of the semester...”

Patrick Cook Part-time English Professor

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The Rockets came out firing in the second half, as Woodside hit Johnson for an 88-yard score on UT’s first play from scrimmage to extend the lead to 30-10. After a three-andout by the Cardinals, Johnson scored again, returning a punt 87 yards for a touchdown to give the Rockets a 37-10 lead. After that, Seymour put the game on ice with touchdown runs of one and 63 yards to give the Rockets a 51-10 margin with 3:55 left in the third quarter.

Ball State took advantage of a fumbled Rocket punt late in the third quarter to score its second touchdown of the game. The Cardinals recovered on the UT four-yard line, and cashed in a on a four-yard run on fourth down by quarterback Drew Plitt.

First year running back Nevone McCrimmon scored Toledo’s next touchdown on a 73-yard run to the Ball State two-yard line. Fourth year quarterback Michael Julian capped the game off with a two-yard TD run.

“He made a couple great plays on 50-50 balls that were competitive catches,” Candle said. “That’s good to see. His quarterback trusted him and was putting it out there for him. We have to win our one-on-one battles no matter who we are playing, and he was able to do that tonight.”

The Rockets will play in a MAC West Division showdown with rival Northern Illinois in the Glass Bowl next Thursday. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU.

On Thursday, the University of Toledo football team cruised to a 58-17 victory over Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. The win improves the Rockets’ record to 7-1 overall and 4-0 in Mid-American Conference play.

“We have fast guys that can make good coaches out of people,” UT coach Jason Candle said. “They can score the ball a lot of different ways and from wherever they touch it on the field. When you have a senior quarterback that is a fifth-year guy, that is really comfortable in the offense, and really knows the scheme, he has the ability to help guys be in position to be successful and make those plays. Once you get it in your hands, it’s about what you can do with it. I’d love to say I taught them all that, but that is just raw, natural ability.”

Second year wide receiver Diontae Johnson led the offense as he scored three touchdowns. Johnson caught TD passes of 88 and 67 yards, and added on a score on an 87-yard punt return.

“Diontae has made plays for us all year, and he is going to have to continue to make big plays for us down the stretch,” fourth-year quarterback Logan Woodside said.

Woodside threw for 267 yards and three touchdowns. One of those touchdowns being a 35-yard TD connection to secondyear receiver Desmond Phillips.

Fourth-year running back Terry Swanson paced the rushing attack with 105 yards and one touchdown, while first-year running backs Shakif Seymour (69 yards and two scores) and Nevone Mccrimmon (73 yards) came in relief in the second half. For the game, Toledo collected 602 yards of total offense in just 52 plays, 267 through the air and 335 on the ground, for an average of 11.6 yards per play.

Toledo’s defense shut down the Cardinals throughout most of the game, holding BSU to 309 total yards. Third year defensive end Olasukanami Adenyi was a force on the line, tying his career high with three tackles for loss.

Toledo started off the scoring on a 32-yard field goal by third year kicker Jameson Vest. Ball State answered scoring on a 41-yard run by Malik Dunner to give the Cardinals a 7-3 lead with three minutes left in the first quarter.

After that, it was all Toledo, as the Rockets surged in the second quarter, scoring two touchdowns in a span of less than three minutes. Swanson charged up the middle for a 71-yard touchdown run and Phillips snagged a 35-yard Woodside pass to make the score 17-7 with 8:20 to play in the first half. Two possessions later, Johnson came back to a Woodside pass, then zoomed up the sidelines for a 67-yard TD to give UT a 24-7 edge.

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The women’s volleyball team played its last home game of the season against Central Michigan Saturday, Oct. 28 and lost the contest 3-2.

Emotion and energy was in the air at Savage Arena Saturday night, as fourth-years Saige Thomas,

Brianna Foster, Lauren endurance and resolve, Bakaitis, Rachel Vidourek however, they battled back. and Annie Beasley took the The Rockets would tie the court for the last time. first set 20-20 before falterPrior to the game’s start, ing down the stretch and Thomas was recognized eventually losing, 25-23. for recording her 1,000th In the second set, the kill as a Rocket. Trying for Rockets led by as many as one last home victory, the nine points and carried that Rockets stumbled early, momentum to a 25-19 set starting the first set in a victory to even the contest 9-1 hole. up at one set apiece.

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Adair-Hodges’ poetic journey

By Areeba Shah Community Editor

More often than not, readers don’t get the chance to witness the failures writers encounter when they’re in the process of publishing work. People only see the end product, not the hours spent curating ideas and constructing a piece.

“We so rarely get to write. And for every piece that works, there are countless ones that haven’t worked that you have to write,” author of “Let’s All Die Happy” Erin Adair-Hodges said.

In addition to publishing poems, essays and now her first book, AdairHodges is a creative writing professor at the University of Toledo. She has won seven different awards in writing and was most recently awarded the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for “Let’s All Die Happy.”

Born and raised in New Mexico, Adair-Hodges said she came to the University of Toledo to work with undergraduate students in creative writing.

Enrolling in college as a theater major, Adair-Hodges soon realized she wasn’t dramatic enough to pursue this career path. Instead, her creativity led her to writing, a craft she practiced as a kid, Adair-Hodges said.

“I didn’t start writing poetry until my last year of college because I thought I hated poetry,” AdairHodges said. “But, it turned out I just hadn’t read poetry that I liked.

And I had only been shown, the kind of stuff most people are shown in high school.”

After graduating with a master’s degree in poetry, she continued experimenting with different forms of writing, including essays, fiction and nonfiction. Adair-Hodges said she also wrote reviews, articles and profiles for a weekly alternative newspaper in Albuquerque.

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again until the end of 2014, when she sent in her work for the first time. Her first accepted poem, “Of Yalta,” received the Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams Prize and is still widely published in literary journals today, Adair-Hodges said.

Upon having her work recognized by one of the nation’s top literary journals, Adair-Hodges said she felt rather anxious sharing her poetry at first. However, her close friends talked her into sending in her work for publication.

She added women are not encouraged to be ambitious about their talents. However, being a feminist, Adair-Hodges thought she outsmarted those influences but later found out she was wrong.

“All of those messages still rose into my brain and they impacted the choices I made – to not take myself seriously, to not see that I have something important to share,” Adair-Hodges said. “Now, I’ve realized that’s not true; but I still like to talk about it to encourage and help other younger writers.”

The same doubt followed AdairHodges while writing her book, “Let’s All Die Happy.” She said for a long time, she didn’t know she was writing a book and thought it was just poems, until her friend encouraged her to put it together as a book.

“At that point, I didn’t really have the confidence or vision to see myself as sort of like a professional poet,” Adair-Hodges said.

While writing, Adair-Hodges said so much of the poetry didn’t work at first so instead, she allowed her poems to find their own voice through new approaches, forms and contents. This encouraged her to push herself in directions she hadn’t before.

“Literature never succeeds when it plays it safe, and good writing comes from the writer having risked something,” Adair-Hodges said.

“Let’s All Die Happy” is a collection of poems that allows readers to experience the world of a woman, Adair-Hodges said. It also discusses the experiences women open themselves up to because of the bodies they live in and deals with themes like a loss of religious faith and faith in cultural institutions.

The title was inspired by the first lines of one of her poems. Adair-Hodges said she struggled with titling her book for the longest time and didn’t arrive at a final decision until she printed out the title and sat with it for a while.

“The process of poetry can take years and years and years for me.

For this first one, it didn’t take that long. But I’m currently working on a couple more and those are taking a lot longer,” Adair-Hodges said.

What finally encouraged her to share her work with the world was the fear of mortality. When she was younger, she said she would constantly tell herself she would do it someday, but she soon realized that there are only a limited amount of some days.

“I really enjoyed the possibility, or the reward of imagination, that you know how satisfying it is when you construct something out of your own pieces of creativity,” Adair-Hodges said. “It’s so fun and it’s really frustrating too.”

Her book release reading and signing will take place in Libbey Hall on Thursday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m.

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First Gen Day at UT

By Emily Schnipke Editor-in-Chief

What is a first-generation college student? The University of Toledo is hosting an event for those whose parents or legal guardians have not completed a bachelor’s degree.

These first-gen students, and their siblings, will be the first in their families to graduate from college.

First Gen Day: First 2 Launch @ UT Day will be held Nov. 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Ottawa East and Carlson Library. Open to all students, the TRIO Student Support Services program is celebrating First Generation Day on the anniversary of the day the Higher Education Act was signed into law in 1965.

“It’s important for first-gen to know about resources on campus because they don’t really have anyone to ask, and a lot of them are afraid to admit that they could use some additional help or advice or support,” said Robin Stone, director of TRIO Student Support Services.

At the event, students are invited to drop in to learn more about resources for firstgen students and meet other first-gen college students, faculty and staff from around the university.

TRIO SS is associated with the Council for Opportunity in Education, which invited UT to help them celebrate firstgeneration students. Events like these are celebrated at different schools during different times of the year, but COE believed Nov. 8 is perfect to celebrate the shared history of first-gen students and the Higher Education Act, according to Stone.

President Lyndon Johnson signed the act as a part of The Great Society, a set of domestic programs designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.

“He worked with poor children before he was in politics.

So he always remembered that, these poor children,” Stone said. “And when he became a president, the thing about the war on poverty was more on

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