Community Learning, Cultural Engagement & Marion Stories
Conversations, exhibitions, oral history, the arts—and the plain joy of learning something alongside other people. A lot of stories have been told about Marion. Whose story has been left out?
Codesign, Community Problem-Solving & Civic Dialogue
Collaborative work on the questions and problems that matter here — and the harder work of talking across difference without flinching. We bring residents, students, employers, and faculty into the same room as co-creators, not audiences. What might we solve together that none of us could alone?
Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Workforce for the Public Good
Two economies don’t always get counted as such: the creative one — makers, food, music, entertainment — and the caring one — recovery, mental health, hunger, housing. But an extraordinary share of this town’s ingenuity lives between those two. How might Ohio State Marion build with the people who lead in these spaces?
Education Pathways, Access & Community Roots
Drop-in learning for everyone. Across its six campuses, Ohio State University holds expertise that’s hard to reach from the outside. We want to connect Marion directly to it. Alongside that: programming that helps young people picture the doors a degree can open, and honest talk about the cost. Underneath it, a question we’d rather work out with you than pretend we’ve settled: what is a college education for, right now?