Michelle Adkins

Michelle joined the Career Services Office team in August 2020 in a split position with the Career Exploration and Development team, which Michelle joined in May 2019. As associate director for both Career Services within the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship and Career Exploration and Development, Michelle provides leadership to students pursuing a career in the business industry as well as those seeking opportunities in health sciences. Michelle focuses her time working one-on-one with students providing career exploration and development advising as well as forging relationships with various faculty, staff and academic departments on campus to best meet the needs of students. Michelle developed new campus relationships to provide career advising in remote locations on campus to better serve our students, as well as developing career programming opportunities.

Michelle also provides leadership to Career Exploration and Development’s Flashternship program and has worked with the KSU Alumni Association to recruit alumni as possible Flashternship hosts. In addition, Michelle teaches one of Kent State’s Career Navigation courses, helping students focus on career exploration efforts while leading a freshmen orientation class to help students acclimate to Kent State University.