Central State University

High school graduates from the Dayton, Trotwood-Madison, Xenia and Springfield public school districts are eligible.

The Edgemont Solar Garden on Miami Chapel Road has a long history on Dayton’s West Side. Lately it’s experienced a regeneration of sorts, with partners like Central State University and Agraria in Yellow Springs joining in to support urban agriculture.

Last Saturday Central State University Extension hosted a mushroom growing workshop. The people who attended got to learn how to start up their own personal mushroom farm and how to take care of it.

John Pace, CEO and President of the event, says the Classic For Columbus is about much more than football.

Central State University was recently awarded a new grant to teach local farmers how to start and operate their own farming businesses.

In this installment, we’ll hear about student activism in the 1960s and 70s in Greene County, home to two historically Black colleges – Central State and Wilberforce University AND Antioch College. Students at all three schools organized protests, marches, sit-ins, rallies, pickets and more during those years, pressing hard and relentlessly for civil rights for African Americans.

This week Central State University presents a play that rewrites recent history. Local poet and activist Bomani Moyenda has written his first play, “What’s Done in the Dark.” The play creates a fictionalized case based on the police killing of John Crawford III and a community’s struggle for accountability.

The community marketplace offers free food from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month

The University demonstrated how its aquaponics system worked in a greenhouse in Wilberforce. Attendees were given vegetables and fish to take home.

The University received a 1.3 million grant from the FDA last month

Hidden behind cornstalks in Wilberforce, Central State Agricultural Extension faculty are growing three types of hemp (metabolite, fiber, and grain) to research the plant and help growers.

Central State University is getting a boost in funding to support students who are low income, first generation, or who have disabilities.