“At CSU we have been responsible," President Harlan Sands told the CSU Senate when asked about the prospects for a fall reopening. “We will look at the campus footprint and the data to see what our appropriate on-campus presence will be like in the fall.”

Cleveland State University leadership addressed the recent media scrutiny surrounding the hiring of Douglas Dykes as associate vice president of human resources, in a CSU Senate meeting held virtually on March 3.

“My fellow Ohioans, victory is in sight," Governor Mike DeWine said on March 2, updating the people of the state on where he sees their and the government's efforts to defeat the coronavirus pandemic.

Cleveland State’s Executive MBA Distinguished Speaker Series featured Paula Calise on Mar. 6. She spoke about introducing yourself in a business setting using her professional branding methodology called “The Art of Hello.”

Governor Mike DeWine lifted Ohio's curfew after a week of hospitalizations under 2,500.

“Our goal is to vaccinate as many people as we can, as quickly as we can,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said in a press conference at the Wolstein Center on Mar. 5. “We get out of this pandemic through vaccination, and the vaccination process that’s going to start here on St. Patrick’s Day at Cleveland State is going to be an integral part of that.”

“The fact that African Americans dominated the stage with three singers, one poet laureate and one American sign language interpreter leads me to believe our society is slowly embracing a transformation of the standard face of America,” said one CSU student, describing her feelings about the off field performances at this year's Super Bowl.

“The free tuition was offered to only freshmen to accommodate for the pandemic, but all upperclassmen are affected by these challenges as well,” a concerned student said.