Connect with CSU Faculty

Connect with CSU Faculty 

Featuring Dr. Liz Goncy, Psychology, CSU 

Presenting: Brains Under Pressure: How to Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive)

Monday, April 20, 2026

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

No registration required

Location: Michael Schwartz Library, 1st floor

“Connect with CSU Faculty,” featuring Dr. Liz Goncy, Psychology, is presented as part of the National Library Week and Wellness event "Find Your Joy," hosted by The Michael Schwartz Library along with the Counseling Center.

Dr. Goncy will present "Brains Under Pressure: How to Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive)", offering practical, evidence-based strategies for managing stress and anxiety.

"Connect with CSU Faculty" series sponsored by the Friends of the Library

is free and open to all CSU faculty, staff, and students and the general public.

Read further to find details about Finding Your Joy at the Free Wellness Event!

Find Your Joy: A Free Wellness Event

Monday, April 20, 2026

2:00–3:00 PM

Michael Schwartz Library, 1st floor

The Michael Schwartz Library along with the Counseling Center is hosting Find Your Joy, a free drop-in wellness event on Monday, April 20, 2026 from 2:00–3:00 PM on the library's 1st floor as part of our National Library Week Celebration.

Highlights include:

•  A presentation by Dr. Liz Goncy (Psychology, CSU) — Brains Under Pressure: How to Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive)
• Hands-on wellness stations: gratitude wall, coloring, button-making, a take-away bar with stress relief goodies, and more
• Campus resource tables: Library, Counseling Center, Academic Support Hub, and Writing Center
• Snacks and a therapy dog 🐾
• Satisfaction survey with a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card
• No registration needed — students, faculty and staff can drop in anytime between 2–3 PM.

CSU Faculty -- please share this event with your students!

Lunch with Author Janice Mitchell

Meet Janice Mitchell

Author of My Ticket to Ride: How I Ran Away to England to Meet the Beatles and Got Rock and Roll Banned in Cleveland (A True Story from 1964)

Lunch and Book Signing Opportunity

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location: Michael Schwartz Library, Rhodes Tower, RT 502 or virtually

Register below! Join us virtually or in-person

It’s 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in an unhappy home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love … with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four.

My Ticket to Ride is on sale now at CSU Viking Outfitters located in the Student Center and will be available for sale at the event on April 22 for a book signing opportunity.

A delicious lunch, coffee, cold drinks, and dessert will be provided.

Celebrate National Library Workers Day on April 21, 2026!

Join us in recognizing the invaluable contributions of all library workers on National Library Workers Day, celebrated this year on Tuesday, April 21. This special day is dedicated to acknowledging the hard work, dedication, and expertise of the individuals who keep our libraries thriving.

Show your appreciation by sharing messages of gratitude on social media using the hashtag #NLWD26, and help us highlight the critical role library staff play in our communities.

Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing Exhibit

by Michael Skor, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, Michael Schwartz Library

Newspaper clippings, class pictures, photographs, vintage nursing attire, promotional brochures and newsletter and other historical items from Cleveland’s Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing are on display at the Michael Schwartz Library through May.

Originally established as the Cleveland Training School for Nurses in 1884 at the Huron Road Hospital, it was the first nursing school west of the Allegheny Mountains. Later renamed the Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing, its graduates served in the nursing profession not only in the Cleveland area but also throughout the country and world. To meet the need for medical assistance in the Spanish-American War in 1898, 8 volunteers served in a military hospital; then, in 1917, 17 nurses served in World War I, and in 1940, 40 nurses in World War II.

In 1962, the nursing school signed an agreement with Fenn College that enabled the nursing students to attend select courses at Fenn College and jointly designed a three-year curriculum leading to an associate’s degree in nursing. By the early 1970s, the Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing was recognized as having one of the most developed nursing programs in the country. Unfortunately, in 2011, the Huron Road Hospital closed and with it the Huron School of Nursing. In its 127 years of operation, the Huron School of Nursing graduated more than 3,500 nurses. 

Cleveland State University acquired the archives of the Huron Road Hospital School of Nursing from the former President of the HRH Nursing Alumni Association. This Alumni Association has had a lasting impact on the community at Cleveland State and continues today.  

Friends of the Library events are free and open to all

CSU faculty, staff, students, Alumni, and the general public.