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Cleveland State University Summer Stages

Cleveland’s only professional summer repertory theatre presents The Elephant Man, Oh Dad Poor Dad..., and the musical Curtains! For more information on Summer Stages visit www.csuohio.edu/theater/SummerStages/.

All performances run from July 8th – August 8th at 8:00 pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and 2:00 pm on Sunday. All performances are held at the CSU Factory Theatre with free parking in lot S1 (East 24th St. between Chester & Payne Avenues). For ticket information call the box office at 216.687.2109.

Elephant Man July 8, 16, 24, 25, 29, August 5

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad July 9, 17, 18, 22, 30, August 6

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Table of Contents2 Keeping up with CLASS and Overview of Beyond Community Policing

3 Letter from the Dean

4 Spotlight on Alumni

5 The School of Communcation

6 The Poetry Center

7 The School of Social Work

8 CLASS Accomplishments

9 Paying It Forward: Planned Gift Supports Scholarships

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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Dr. Gregory Sadlek, DeanDr. Teresa LaGrange, Associate DeanDr. William Morgan, Associate Dean

Creative DirectorLesley Lang

EditorJody Milkie

ContributorsEvan Lieberman

James ChrissJane McCrone

Michael DumanisMurali Nair

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Beyond Community Policing is a book which seeks to locate modern municipal policing within the historical, cultural, and social changes which gave rise to policing in the fi rst place, analyzing the various forms policing has taken from the 1830s to the present. Most histories

of American policing have analyzed the emergence of police departments in large urban metropolises such as Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. This is all well and good, but a signifi cant story of the rise of policing west of the Mississippi between 1840 and 1890 has been relatively overlooked. Hence, the book seeks to identify key themes running throughout the three policing eras and refl ect upon these with special reference to the relatively overlooked period of early American beginnings within what popularly is referred to as the Wild West.

The central theme, following Egon Bittner, is that at its core policing amounts to the non-negotiable distribution of coercive force in a legal jurisdiction. Each iteration of policing which has emerged over time—political spoils (1830s through 1910s), reform and early professionalization (1920s through 1960s), community policing (1970s to the present), and post 9-11 policing (since 2001)—is marked by this underlying or core theme, even as later policing downplays the coercive role in favor of a more humanitarian and “user friendly” approach emphasizing service, community outreach, and the explicit attempt to solve social problems—not merely to react to them—in collaboration with key stakeholders in the community.

A second major theme, explored in two of the chapters (4 and 6) is the high levels of discretion police offi cers enjoy relative to other actors in the criminal justice system. This discretion is particularly important for police fi eld operations, particularly with regard to patrol and plainclothes detective work. Both post 9-11 policing and later variants, such as viewing offi cers as “contact persons” out in the fi eld who can be trusted to use their professional judgment to deal effectively with inhabitants of increasingly diverse urban communities, represent competing visions of how to go “beyond community policing.” The fi nal chapter provides a summary of the key principles developed throughout the book regarding police and society, keeping in mind the organizational and institutional contexts within which both the use of force and discretion are employed by modern municipal police offi cers.

Beyond Community Policing:From Early American Beginnings

to the 21st CenturyJames J. Chriss, professor at Cleveland State University

in the Department of Sociology and Criminology

2010 Promotion/Tenure

Billy V. KosteasAssociate ProfessorEconomics

Hebat El-AttarAssociate ProfessorModern Languages

Eric E. ZiolekProfessorMusic

Stephen C. CoryAssociate ProfessorHistory

Russell J. RevockAssociate ProfessorArt

James J. MarinoAssociate ProfessorEnglish

George B. RayProfessorCommunication

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Associate Professor with Tenure

The Innerlink | Summer 2010

Letter from the DeanIt’s been great to live in Cleveland during the current NBA season. The Cavaliers have been a dominant force in the league, and LeBron James has constantly demonstrated both his amazing physical prowess and his leadership abilities throughout the season. For all of us, LeBron and the Cavs, on their path to what we hope will be an NBA championship, have become a tremendous source of civic pride. Another continuing source of pride is our School of Social Work, which is featured in this issue of The Innerlink. The School partners with more than 250 regional social service agencies to give hands-on training to its growing cohort of students as well as to give back to our community. This is engaged learning at its fi nest!

In addition, for the past 18 years, Dr. Maggie Jackson has been the school’s dominant player, leading her team to several important goals, including the creation of a joint MSW program with the University of Akron and the transition of the Department of Social Work into a School. At the end of this summer, however, Dr. Jackson will be stepping down from her position as Director to return to the teaching faculty, and we will miss her generous spirit and her sure-footed leadership. I want to express my sincere gratitude for all that she has accomplished in offi ce. We are fortunate, however, because we will have her continued presence on campus in the role of senior faculty member. In the meantime, this year the School has conducted a national search for a new Director. Under the leadership of Dr. Beth Cagan, the committee has worked tirelessly to bring this search to a successful conclusion, and I am confi dent that next fall we will be proud to announce Dr. Jackson’s successor in the pages of The Innerlink.

One of our fastest growing majors at present is our program in Criminology, housed in what is now called our Department of Sociology and Criminology. Dr. James Chriss is just one of an exceptionally strong cadre of faculty we have recruited for this program. In this issue of The Innerlink, we are pleased to highlight one of Dr. Chriss’ recent publications, a book on the history of police forces in this country. I think you’ll fi nd it interesting reading.

In the college’s Mission Statement, we specifi cally place our role at the heart of the university’s cultural life, and two other articles in this issue indicate that our cultural infl uence reaches out well beyond the confi nes of our campus. In the fi rst, you will learn about the CSU Poetry Center, which has been a leading promoter of new poets nationally since its founding in 1962. In 2007, Michael Dumanis became Director of the Poetry Center, and he has quickly moved to raise the Center’s profi le both on campus and nationwide. The Center has become an important player in the cultural life of campus, sponsoring the visits of approximately 20 active poets and writers per year.

In the second, you will learn about the involvement of our School of Communication with the Cleveland International Film Festival. The Festival has evolved over the past 33 years to become a major regional cultural event, this year drawing over 71,000 viewers to downtown Cleveland over a period of 10 days. Under the leadership of Vice-President for Institutional Diversity Dr. Njeri Nuru-Holm, our School has become a major partner in this successful festival, and, indeed, the Festival’s head programmer is a School of Communication alumnus, Mr. Bill Guentzler. This is yet another example of CSU’s engagement with the local arts community.

I want to thank all the alumni who have taken the time to update us on their lives and successes. Our two featured alumni, Tony Weinert and Barbara Reitman, have made signifi cant contributions to their professions and our community. And I really enjoy reading the CLASS Alumni Updates and learning about other impressive accomplishments of our talented alumni. After reading these columns, I become even more confi dent that a CLASS education prepares our alumni well for rewarding lives and careers.

Finally, with apologies to T.S. Eliott, I will say that April is not the cruelest month in Cleveland. In fact, it’s one of our loveliest months, and we now enjoying a fi ne spring season as I write. That means that a warm, green summer on the shores of Lake Erie is right at our doorstep. Best wishes for a relaxing and restorative summer!

Gregory SadlekDean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

see where a CLASS degree can l ead youSpotlight on Alumni

Tony Weinert1974 BA in Dramatic ArtsI am an Investment Advisor and Certifi ed Retirement Counselor (CRC) with Financial Network Investment Corporation. I have offi ces in Cleveland and Los Angeles and clients in 16 states.

During the fi rst 19 years of my fi nancial career I presented a basic investment course at Glendale College in Glendale California. I have presented fi nancial seminars locally at Cuyahoga Community College and Aetna. Every time I get up in front of a group of people to speak I am

very thankful for what I’ve learned about communications and theater.

I am a graduate of CSU Class of 1974 with a BA degree in Dramatic Arts. After graduating I continued to take volleyball classes for another year. I liked to tell people that I was doing graduate work in volleyball!

Confl ict and emotion are two drivers both in drama and investing. I use my background in confl ict resolution to guide my clients. The markets are full of emotion and consequently what I do for my clients is help them manage their expectations and make wise investment decisions.

The CSU Dramatic Arts Program showed me how creativity can be rewarded. The fi rst play that I did at CSU, “The Birds,” was a huge hit. It was entered in the American College Theater Festival. We were among 10 winners chosen from the entire country. I worked on “Jacques Brel” at CSU before it made the move to Playhouse Square. Many feel “Brel” was the catalyst for the reincarnation of those beautiful theaters. Now, many years later, CSU is proposing to move the Dramatic Arts Program into the Allen Theater at Playhouse Square! I make my charitable gifts to CSU to support this and other exciting initiatives in Drama.

I founded BITE Improvisational Theater Ensemble with a small group of students while at CSU. After graduating we did improvisational theater for eight years. Actors would take suggestions directly from the audience and improvise a scene on the spot, much to the audience’s delight. I am proud to say we performed in a variety of locations including many colleges and universities, but also Lubrizol, the Mentor Harbor Yacht Club, and the Cuyahoga County Jail! Part of my transition from Improv Theater to fi nancial advisor was a period of working in television in Los Angeles. I was talent coordinator for “The Other Side of Victory,” a nationally televised sports magazine program hosted with Arthur Ashe. I am also proud to include working on Christo’s “Umbrellas Project” on my resume of unique art adventures.

I live with my wife in a boathouse in the Clifton Lagoon. We enjoy theater and fi lm. This year we saw over 20 fi lms at the Cleveland International Film Festival. We have driven cross country between my offi ces many times and now stop in Goodyear, Arizona to see The Tribe (and other CSU alums) in spring training. I have a musician son Bjorn who lives in Norway with his wife and children whom we visit as often as possible.

Barbara Reitman2008 BSW, 2009 MSW in Social WorkThere are times in your life when you are chosen, others when you make a choice that changes your life. Such was my choice of being a social worker. I entered the CSU School of Social Work as a nontraditional student in the fall of 2005 just after nursing my mother through two life-threatening illnesses, the second of which ended her courageous life. My choice to become a social worker was infl uenced by the providers who cared for my mother, and also by working with my husband Bob in our private mental health practice. Bob is a licensed professional counselor (also a CSU graduate, ’93 Masters of Education) working with at-risk youth and families on the west side of Cleveland and in Lorain County. Both my husband and I had previous careers in the business arena in Los Angeles, California.

After completing the Ohio Child Welfare Training, I held a bachelor’s level internship with Lorain County Children Services. In May of 2008, I became a licensed social worker and went to work with the Berea Children’s Home as a multi-systemic therapist for the In-Home Family Treatment Program. My master’s level internship was also at Berea Children’s Home where I worked as a therapist for children from zero to six (0-6) years old along with their families, assisting with developing attachment relationships and adjustment to the diffi culties of today’s complex lifestyles.

Currently, I am a Direct Services Caseworker at Lorain County Children Services. In this role, I investigate abuse and neglect for children identifi ed by members of the community. I also provide case management, case counseling, and information and referral for families identifi ed in need of additional services. The goal is to provide ongoing services to increase protection for children and to assist with maintaining and strengthening families. The work of child welfare is exhausting and stressful, but necessary. Children deserve the efforts of the best professional social workers to advocate for their safety, protection, and developmental needs.

As a recent graduate, staying in touch with CSU is quite natural. Many of my peers are still completing their degrees. I keep in contact with the CSU community through CSU students who hold internships at my agency and by keeping in contact with my former professor Dr. Murali Nair.

What do you want to say to current students?Find a passion within your careers—the time spent at CSU not only prepares you for a job, but creates the foundation for fi nding a way to enjoy life. Do what you love!

I truly recognize and appreciate the extraordinary gift of my new career. There is a richness and purpose in social work that is both exhausting and fulfi lling. I am grateful for the joy I feel and the opportunity I have received.

What do you want to say to current students?Be original and creative. Enjoy your time at CSU. Learn as much as you can. Step out of your normal routine to have as many varied and different experiences as possible. Most importantly….attend a play at CSU!

The Innerlink | Summer 2010

For the fourth year the School of Communication has partnered with the Cleveland International Film Festival to bring our students, faculty, and the broader Cleveland community the opportunity to interact with fi lmmakers and tastemakers at what has become one of the premier cultural events in Northeast Ohio. In the 33 years of its existence the Cleveland International Film Festival has grown from a small, regional festival showing a handful of hard-to-see fi lms to a major event on the national fi lm festival scene, programming over 300 fi lms and widely recognized as one of the fi nest gatherings of international fi lms and fi lmmakers in the country. Much of the credit for this growth must be attributed to the work of Cleveland State University School of Communication graduate Bill Guentzler who is the festival’s head programmer charged with the not unenviable task of traveling around the world to fi lm festivals throughout the year scouting for the best works to bring to Cleveland. Thanks to Guentzler’s diligence and fi ne taste as well as the tireless work of festival staff members, director Marcie Goodman, assistant director Patrick Shepherd, and marketing director Debbie Samples, the festival which ran from March 18th to March 28th at Tower City Cinemas drew a record 71,000 admissions in 2010.

CSU’s relationship with the festival has been driven by the passion and hard work of Vice President for Institutional Diversity Njeri Nuru-Holm, who has made the University one of the major supporters of the festival and fostered the close connection between the CIFF and the School of Communication. Under the leadership of Dr. Nuru-Holm Cleveland State has sponsored festival sidebars, Local Heroes and Cinema en Espanol, as well as the Cleveland State University Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film, which this year went to the German fi lm Lights, directed by Giulio Ricciarelli. Dr. Nuru-Holm who is on the festival’s board of directors also encouraged the active participation of CSU students and faculty on the festival’s marketing committee, and Film and Digital Media major Lara Klaber played an extremely important role in the festival as its blog manager.

This year the School of Communication’s participation in the festival was directed by Dr. Kim Neuendorf, who did an incredible job overseeing the student and faculty involvement in introducing the CSU-sponsored fi lms to festival audiences, in setting up and manning a table at the festival site promoting the School of Communication’s Film and Digital Media program, and organizing a series of panel discussions here at CSU with visiting fi lmmakers, whose work was featured in the festival and moderated by CSU Film

and Digital Media faculty members. It is the panel discussion series that took place on March 27th and 28th in MU107 of the Music and Communication building that represents the closest and perhaps most valued collaboration between the university and the festival. The fi ve panel discussions, collectively entitled “Let’s Make Movies” to echo the spirit of the festival’s marketing theme “Let’s Go!,” focused on issues of writing, directing, exhibition, documentary, and local production. Over the two days 25 fi lmmakers from the festival came to CSU to share their experiences and their accumulated knowledge of fi lmmaking with students and the broader community. With over a hundred people attending and great enthusiasm from both the visiting fi lmmakers and the audience, the panels have become the focal point for the collaboration between CSU and the CIFF. With the success of the panel discussion series, our students working as festival interns, and courses like Dr. Neuendorf ’s COM 321 (Documentary Form in Film and Television) and Dr. Bob Abelman’s COM 327 (Media Criticism) increasingly using the festival as part of their curriculum, the close relationship between the School of Communication and the Cleveland International Film Festival will only continue to grow.

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The Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a literary press and outreach organization, was founded at Fenn College of Engineering in 1962, and, since 1971, has been publishing collections of poetry every year by emerging and mid-career American poets. In its early years, the Poetry Center acquired recognition through publishing early collections by American poets who have since become highly acclaimed, including National Book Award fi nalist David Kirby, Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright, MacArthur Fellow Thylias Moss, and Anisfi eld-Wolf Book Award winner Martha Collins. Presently, the Poetry Center has over 130 titles in print, and publishes fi ve new collections a year, selected through national competitions.

When Michael Dumanis took over as Director in 2007, the Poetry Center was a quieter place with no signifi cant external distribution or internet presence, scant publicity, and few literary events for the community-at-large. Since then, the center has made great strides. The Poetry Series now sponsors an active reading series that brings writers to the Cleveland State campus from around the country—it now hosts visits by over twenty authors a year, well-attended by a mix of students; faculty from not only CSU but also Oberlin, Case Western, and John Carroll; and poetry enthusiasts who drive in from as far as

Erie and Toledo. In this past year, the center hosted National Book Award winner Mark Doty, Kingsley Tufts Award-winning poet D.A. Powell, acclaimed poet and concert pianist Oni Buchanan (in collaboration with the Music Department), and authors from such far-fl ung locales as Montreal and Alabama. The Poetry Center has one more event this semester—a fi ction reading by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Josip Novakovich on April 29th.

The center has a more attractive and user-friendly website, an excellent new professional designer, and a national distributor, Small Press Distribution in Berkeley. Its poetry contests now get 850 submissions a year. New releases are currently fi nalists for such prestigious awards as the Ohioana Book Award and ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. The books are getting positive reviews in prominent literary journals and daily newspapers. One recent book has been featured in the New Yorker’s online blog for its cover design. Rae Armantrout, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, is judging this year’s First Book contest. With these new developments, it is exciting to once again assume a vital role as a major national publisher of contemporary poetry.

New Directions for theCleveland State University Poetry Center

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The School ofSocial Work

CSU started offering its nationally accredited social work Bachelors degrees thirty-six years ago and the Master degree (in collaboration with the University of Akron is the fi rst nationally accredited distance learning program) fi fteen years ago. Close to three hundred bachelor and two hundred and fi fty master social work students make it one of the largest programs in the State of Ohio. BSW graduates passage rate for the social work licensure examination is at eighty-two percent, which is above the national average.

All full-time faculty members have Doctoral degrees and are nationally and internationally known for their areas of specialties, with three faculty members being Fulbright scholars. One of the faculty members from the School of Social Work received the CSU Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.

Students are active in different campus activities and in the community. There are fi ve social work student organizations. Social Work in Action, the BSW student group, won the 2008 CSU Student organization of the year award. Phi Alpha National Social Work Honor Society, CSU Chapter won one of the fi ve best chapter awards in 2009 for its outstanding scholarly activities. Other social work student organizations include, Master of Social Work student organization, North American Christian Social Workers Association, American Association of Black Social Workers, and National Association of Social Workers.

More than two hundred and fi fty social service agencies serving diverse populations in the Greater Cleveland area provide internship opportunities to social work students. BSW students spend four hundred hours and MSW students nine hundred hours offering different types of social services to these agencies as part of their graduation requirements. Large percentages of BSW graduates pursue an MSW degree. Most graduates are successfully employed at Health and Human Service social service agencies in Northeast Ohio.

Dr. Maggie Jackson, Director, The School of Social Work

Dr. Maggie Jackson has been the director of the School of Social Work for the past 18 years. In the summer of 2010 she is stepping down from her position and will be rejoining the faculty. In addition to all of her responsibilities as school director, Dr. Jackson is involved in a variety of community-oriented organizations at the local, state, national, and international level.

For example Dr. Maggie Jackson is the President of the Neighborhood Centers Associations of Greater Cleveland, President of Golden Age Centers, President of Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Human Services and consultant to numerous other social service organizations.

At the State level, the Governor of Ohio appointed her to a nine year term as a Board Member of the Ohio State Counselor and

Social Work Licensure Board and she is President of the board of trustees for the Methodist Seminary. She is also a board member of the Methodist Theological School in Ohio.

At the National level, she served on the Council on Social Work Education’s accrediting commission for four years and was the site visit chairperson for several years. She is the chairperson of the United States Methodist Women’s organization and board member of the Northwestern College (Iowa). Also she is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Internationally, Dr. Jackson was instrumental in setting up a study abroad program in Germany for social work students. She is a Board member of the Africa University in Zimbabwe.

In recognition of all the local, state, national and international activities, the YWCA of Greater Cleveland honored Dr. Jackson with a “Woman of the Year Award.” In the month of April 2010, Dr. Jackson will also be honored with the President’s (White House) Volunteer Service Award.

Dr. Maggie JacksonDirector, The School of Social Work

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Evelyn Gajowski (‘71 BA, English) is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published three books on Shakespeare: Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare; Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein; and The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies. She is an active member of the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Shakespeare Association, and the International Shakespeare Conference.

Congratulations to Bertha Frieson on her recent retirement from the U.S. Postal Service as a Safety Specialist. Bertha, a Viking for Life, earned a BA in Social Work (’82), MS in Urban Studies (’88), Masters of Education (’93), and an Academic Certificate in Management and Labor Relations from the College of Business.

Jean Ann Guliano (’90 BA Communication) was the focus of The Providence Journal’s article “Moderate Party hopeful: Spend more on education.” Jean Ann is running for the office of lieutenant governor in Rhode Island.

Brad Schreiber (’90 BA Dramatic Arts) was profiled in a West Life article, “The Great Brad to offer theater, magic classes for all ages.”

Dr. Adam J. Banks (’92 BA English) is the 2010 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas. An associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University, Banks is teaching at KU’s Department of English for spring 2010.

Manar Elkurd (’93 BA International Relations) is a Realtor at Howard Hanna, Akron, Ohio.

Bill Kennedy (’96 MA History) hosts an Irish music program Sweeney Astray on Saturdays from 8:00-10:00 p.m. on CSU’s radio station, WCSB. Listen live or online at wcsb.org.

Eric Erickson (’00 BA Religious Studies) is a medical social worker in Reno, Nevada.

Helen Curak (’01 BA Communication) is a Marketing Coordinator at the Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital.

Staff Sgt. Michael Warnick (’01 BA and ’03 MA Music) serves in the U.S. Marine Band, “The President’s Own.”

Michael Oatman (’04 BA English, ’08 MA Fine Arts Creative Writing) was featured in the New York Times article “Tupac Shakur, Immortalized Again.” Oatman is the playwright of Eclipse: The War Between Pac and B.I.G. performed at Karamu House in April, 2010.

Carol Lindley (’07 BA Communication) was selected for the Downtown Cleveland Alliance City Advocate Program, class of 2010-11. The City Advocate Program brings together a diverse group of young professionals who are eager to play a role in the revitalization and progress of downtown Cleveland. Carol is a sales coordinator for the InterContinental Hotel.

Kevinee Gilmore (’09 BA Social Work) was a panelist at an event hosted by The Adoption Network Cleveland on February 17 called “Kinship Care and Adoption.”

Alexis Korovich (’09 BS Criminology) is a paralegal with the Law Offices of Blake Field.

CLASS Alumni Updates

The Innerlink | Summer 2010

Paying It Forward:

It’s amazing that nearly 30 years have passed since I received my

Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Cleveland State University.

I relocated my Financial Planning practice from Cleveland to Fort

Myers, Florida in 1986. It was the same year that our CSU’s basketball

team (Mouse McFadden and his teammates coached by Kevin Mackey)

made it to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. My CSU heritage

has always been a tremendous source of pride for me. Working and

going to school were necessities that I believe created a strong and

consistent work ethic. However, I must say that I did manage to find

enough time to enjoy my favorite CSU intramural sport of soccer (I still

play). I have been a Certified Financial Planner for many years and

together with my partner Nadine Wilkes, manage over $300,000,000

of client assets. As gratifying as my profession is, I think my biggest

accomplishment was creating a mission of my own to travel to Haiti

two years prior to the devastating Earthquake and provide thousands

of dollars of soccer equipment and apparel to underprivileged children

at three different schools in Port Au Prince. I am sure we alums don’t

have to be reminded how fortunate we are to have received such

a first rate education and to that end it is crucial to consider the

legacy that we can provide to future CSU students through charitable

giving both now and when we are no longer here. Thank you CSU!!

Mr. Paul Weinstein (’82 BA Political Science) is proud of his Cleveland State heritage and is choosing to create a planned giving legacy for future generations of students.

You, too, can make a difference by supporting CSU through a planned gift. In addition to the satisfaction that comes from knowing you have made a difference in the lives of others, the ideal gift plan will also improve your financial and tax situation—often right away. Your gift can be in the form of a bequest, outright gift of cash, securities, or personal property, real estate, life insurance or a charitable gift annuity.

Learn more on how to combine your philanthropic giving with your financial needs and tax-planning strategies. Through creative gift planning you can secure your own financial future, as well as ours. For more information visit www.csuohio.edu/giving/planned or contact Marianne C. Gaydos, Director of College Development and Alumni Relations, at 216.875.9838 or e-mail m.gaydos1@csuohio.edu. Your generosity and support is helping to change lives. Thank you.

Planned Gift Supports Scholarships

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