Speaker Series and Workshops
Speaker Series
Hosted by Student Alumni Council
'Five Under Twenty-Five' is an online panel series hosted by the Student Alumni Council featuring OSU alumni, all under the age of 25, who share their experiences and answer questions for current OSU students.
On Monday, January 27th, the session will be based around women in business.
- Date: Monday, January 27th, 2025
- Time: 6:00 pm Eastern
- Location: Zoom Link Here
- Count as Member Development SOE or Inclusive Excellence SOE
On Sunday, March 23rd, the session will explore the topic of health and wellness after college. The panelists will talk about the importance of maintaining time for yourself when you are fresh in the workplace.
- Date: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
- Time: 6:00 pm Eastern
- Location: Zoom Link Here
- Count as Member Development SOE
Hosted by Buckeye Leadership Fellows
Join Buckeye Leadership Fellows for a conversation with Tom Lennox, Pelotonia Founder and Former CEO.
- Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
- Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Eastern
- Location: U.S. Bank Conference Theater, Ohio Union
- Count as Member Development SOE
Register and Submit Your Questions Here!
Workshops
Hosted by SAPS
Part of SAPS Trauma x The Body series, this event explores the intersection of racial trauma and healthcare inequities within the Black community. They will discuss the harmful medical misconceptions historically associated with Black bodies, such as false beliefs of higher pain tolerance and thicker skin, and examine how these biases persist in modern medical practices. The event also highlights how trauma is created and perpetuated in healthcare settings, along with the repercussions of fear and distrust of medical institutions that now persists in the Black community.
- Date: Monday, February 3rd, 2025
- Time: 7:30 pm Eastern
- Location: Hayes Cape Room, Ohio Union
- Count as Member Development and Inclusive Excellence SOE
Hosted by SAPS
This event will examine the intersection of reproductive justice and the Black community, highlighting the historical and ongoing inequities in reproductive healthcare, including the impact of reproductive rights restrictions. We will also explore what true intersectional reproductive justice looks like, emphasizing the importance of addressing systemic racism and centering Black voices in advocacy.
- Date: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
- Time: 6:00 pm Eastern
- Location: Creative Arts Room, Ohio Union
- Count as Member Development and Inclusive Excellence SOE
Hosted by SAPS
This event focuses on the mental, physical, and emotional well-being of Black men, exploring the unique challenges they face in accessing healthcare and addressing mental health within their communities. We will discuss strategies for promoting wellness, breaking down stigma, and fostering supportive environments that prioritize Black men's health.
- Date: Thursday, February 6th, 2025
- Time: 6:00 pm Eastern
- Location: Rosa M. Ailabouni Room, Ohio Union
- Count as Member Development and Inclusive Excellence SOE
Hosted by SAPS
This event delves into the harmful impact of sexual stereotypes of Black women in media, examining how these portrayals reduce them to limited, often damaging roles. We will discuss how these stereotypes affect Black women’s dating lives, contributing to misconceptions and harmful dynamics in relationships, and how they can fuel victim-blaming and normalization of sexual assault. Through thoughtful conversation, we will explore ways to challenge these narratives, promote healthier representations, and advocate for change in media and society.
- Date: Friday, February 7th, 2025
- Time: 4:00 pm Eastern
- Location: Interfaith Prayer & Reflection Room, Ohio Union
- Count as Member Development, Inclusive Excellence and Harm Reduction SOE
REACH© is the name of the OSU suicide prevention in-person gatekeeper training program designed to help the OSU community prevent suicide. This training teaches faculty, staff, and students how to: Recognize warning signs, Engage with empathy, Ask directly about suicide, Communicate hope, and Help suicidal individuals access care and treatment.
Open REACH Trainings are offered throughout the semester for students. After you register for a training session, you will receive a reminder email along with details about the exact location approximately one week prior to the training
- Count as Risk Management and Harm Reduction SOE
Sign Up and Get More Info Here
As part of its Civil Discourse for Citizenship initiative, CEHV offers skill-building dialogue facilitation workshops and workshops on using the 4Cs of civil discourse to navigate difficult conversations. Additionally, CEHV staff are available to facilitate dialogue about important ethical issues.
- Reach out to Associate Director Aaron Yarmel.2 or Civil Discourse for Citizenship Program Director Kathryn Joyce.173 if you are interested in learning more or scheduling a workshop or dialogue session
- Count as Member Development SOE
By introducing the 4Cs of civil discourse — Be Curious , Be Charitable, Be Conscientious, and Be Constructive — this training will help you build civic trust through improved mutual understanding and shared problem-solving, even when you disagree strongly on contentious social and political issues.
Produced by CEHV in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences Office of Distance Education, this training is free and open to everyone: students, educators, and citizens alike.
- Count as Member Development SOE
Complete the Online Training Here
OSU Votes offers a variety of workshops to all members of the Ohio State community. These presentations can range in time from 10 minutes to one hour and can cover topics such as how to register to vote in Ohio, being an informed, voter early and absentee voting, voting rights, day-of-voting practices, and civic and community engagement.
- Submit a OSU Votes Workshop Request Here at least two weeks before your preferred presentation date
- Count as Member Development SOE
Hosted by Green Buckeyes
New this semester, this program will teach and lead discussions about climate change and your chapter’s potential impact on our changing environment. This presentation will provide data about the ongoing changes in the global climate and present strategies on how your chapter and its members can reduce their footprint and become more responsible stewards of our natural resources. This program is highly adaptable and can focus on any sustainability-related topics, including climate change, water use, waste reduction, or energy efficiency!
- Reach out to Monnin.95@osu.edu with questions
- Count as Member Development SOE
CompDrug offers free sexual health presentations to any interested organization or group. Sexual health presentations may include sexual health education, free resources such as condoms, lube, dental dams, internal condoms, and condom compacts, and free STI testing. CompDrug is happy to work with group leaders to tailor presentations to the needs of their specific group.
- Reach out to lrobertson@compdrug.org to schedule
- Count as Risk Management OR Harm Reduction SOE
Hosted by Buckeyes for Harm Reduction
Help save lives with Buckeyes for Harm Reduction! Buckeyes for Harm Reduction at OSU is committed to saving as many lives as possible this year and stopping preventable overdose deaths. They offer training sessions that cover harm reduction, naloxone, and instructions on administering the nasal spray, along with providing naloxone to all participants. Be a part of the numerous student organizations already equipped with Narcan and actively working to prevent overdose deaths.
- Reach out to Frankel.112@osu.edu or OSUBHR on Instagram to schedule
- Count as Member Development OR Harm Reduction SOE
The Student Wellness Center offers a variety in-person and Zoom educational presentations to organizations and groups. Below are the current presentation offerings.
Count as Member Development SOE:
- Financial Education: Budgeting and Credit Basics
- Financial Education: Investing and Debt Repayment
Count as Member Development OR Harm Reduction SOE:
- Nutrition Education: Fueling for Life
- Stress Management: Life's Tough, and So Are You!
- Safer Sex: Let's Talk About Sex
- Alcohol and Other Drugs: AOD 101
- Body Image: All Bodies are Good Bodies
- Nutrition Education: Fueling for Fitness
- Stress Management: Digital and Social Wellness
- Relationship Education: Healthy Relationships
To request a presentation, Please fill out the Student Wellness Center Presentation Request Form at least three weeks in advance of your requested date. Please reach out to wellness@osu.edu with any questions.
Are you interested in a presentation that is not listed above? Email wellness@osu.edu with details of your request and a member of their team will be in touch with you. Please note that special presentation requests require a five week notice.
Sponsored by Student Wellness Center
- ScreenU Alcohol is a free, confidential alcohol risk assessment based on evidence-based strategies called SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment). ScreenU Alcohol is very brief (three to five minutes to complete on a computer, laptop or mobile device) and offers immediate, personalized feedback. Chapters that sign up for this will revive a chapter or council-specific assessment. Member can then use data to have strategic conversations with members and set goals.
If your chapter or council is interested in ScreenU Perscription Drugs (Rx) or Screen U Cannabis please reach out to Elise Nelson.1608@osu.edu in SFL
- Count as Harm Reduction SOE
Sign Up and Get More Info Here
Sponsored by Leadership and Community Engagement
View upcoming workshops to strengthen your personal and chapter's leadership capacities.
- Count as Member Development SOE
Sponsored by the Center of Belonging and Social Change
View upcoming workshops that focus how issues surrounding social identity, stereotypes, and bias affect our community.
- Count as Member Development OR Inclusive Excellence SOE
Sponsored by Off Campus and Commuter Student Engagement
Willie J. Young Sr. Off-Campus and Commuter Student Engagement (OCCSE) together with Student Legal Services (SLS) provide off-campus housing workshops to any and all groups at The Ohio State University. OCCSE and SLS work with residence hall students, academic classes, etc. to discuss the housing search process, including what steps to take before moving in and out of a rental property. OCCSE and SLS offer these workshops to any interested OSU group including but not limited to student organizations, the Greek community and regional campuses.
- Off-Campus and Commuter Student Engagement also offers workshops focusing on off-campus fire safety, personal safety and home security.
- If you are interested in scheduling a workshop for your group, please visit go.osu.edu/occsepresentationrequest to request a presentation or workshop (a minimum of 15 attendees is required).
- Counts as Member Development SOE