Retirees
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DDN: Wright State’s Sogard after tourney disappointment: ‘We’ve been a wreck the last day or two’
The Raiders were bounced from the tourney with two straight losses to Milwaukee, but they showed plenty of fight in the final game Saturday, May 23 — both during a heated third-inning clash with the home-plate umpire and with their bats in the ninth.
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DDN: WSU Boonshoft, Premier Health receive $2.5M to provide care to people experiencing homelessness
Dayton Street Medicine is a collaboration between the Boonshoft School of Medicine, Premier Health, Premier Community Health and the Dayton Dream Center, and it launched in 2025 with support from the OneOhio Recovery Foundation.
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DDN: Raiders ‘flying on all cylinders’, claim eighth consecutive conference crown
The Wright State baseball team has been winning the Horizon League regular-season title with such regularity that clinching the crown barely produces high-fives or fist-bumps anymore.
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DDN: Wright State cuts low-enrolled programs and creates new majors
Wright State University is adding and eliminating program offerings to better align with regional and student needs, and has made progress on a state-mandated plan to get students to graduate the university ready to work.
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Plain Dealer: Ramaswamy wants to consolidate Ohio universities, but that may be a hard sell
Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has proposed consolidating the state’s universities to promote excellence, but he may find that is more difficult than he envisions, experts say.
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DDN: Ohio’s public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1
Wright State had already identified 14 programs that would be eliminated before Senate Bill 1 passed last year.
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DDN: DeWine: Ramaswamy proposal to consolidate Ohio colleges not ‘a good idea’
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running in the GOP primary in a bid to succeed Gov. Mike DeWine, has floated a proposal to consolidate universities in a video his campaign posted to Threads.
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DDN: Sargent gets not only support, but basketball expertise at home
When Clint Sargent addressed the crowd at the NCAA Selection Show watch party Sunday, he started by saying, “I’m here because of the Lord and because of my wife Jill.”
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DDN: Wright State AD Brown leaving position, Ray named interim AD
Wright State will start the process of finding a new athletic director when an eight-member search committee meets Monday, April 20. That announcement came Friday, April 17, five days after news broke that Joylynn Brown was no longer the school’s AD.
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DDN: Ohio educators speak out against removals on retired teachers’ pension fund board
“I believe the legislative change to the make-up of the STRS Board is totally undemocratic, a disservice to members, and will erode confidence in the system,” Rudy Fichtenbaum said.
Upcoming Events
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Wright State Retirees Picnic
Wright State University retirees and friends are invited to a picnic on Saturday, Sept. 19, 1:30–4:30 p.m., in Rotary Park, 2260 Dayton-Xenia Rd., Beavercreek, OH 45432.
See what’s coming up in our Events Calendar