Queer Britain opened as the UK’s first LGBTQ museum in London in May and its inaugural exhibition “We Are Queer Britain” won a Museums Change Lives Award (Best Small Museum Project) in November from the UK-based Museums Association. This first installation featured The Queer Pandemic Project, an international collaboration between Queer Britain, University of London, and Kent State University. The award celebrates UK museums that deliver social impact in order to promote work that supports communities and engages with contemporary issues. “Queer Pandemic,” an oral-history installation, focu...
The keyword is collaboration. At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, a new educational partnership between Kent State University and Geauga County’s Berkshire Local School District took shape with the opening of the new pre-K-12th-grade Berkshire school building on the Kent State Geauga Campus in Burton. Effectively creating shared resources and enhanced learning opportunities for all students along life’s timeline, PRIME (Partners in Rural Innovative Models of Education) is the guiding principle behind the innovative K‐16 approach toward education in Geauga County. As the...
Learning Center Hiring!
The Learning Center is now located in the Gebke Library and will operate in-person and remotely.
Fall 2022 Hours
Monday - Thursday, 9 am -5 pm
Friday, 9 am - 2 pm
Now Hiring for Spring!
The Learning Center is hiring tutors for Spring 2023!! Are you the person your friends always go to for homework help? Have you learned helpful ways to study for those difficult classes you’re in right now? Get to use your expertise to help other students AND get paid for your time!
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Starting in Spring 2023, the Department of Geography will have a continuous study abroad program for the first time. Both Environmental Studies majors and Geography majors can take classes for their major while spending either a semester in Florence, participating in the Florence Summer Institute, or both. Course offerings will include Conservation of Natural Resources, Global Climate Change, Geography of Wine, as well as opportunities for an internship. Spring and Fall courses will be taught by local affiliated faculty in Italy, while summer sessions will be taught by Kent Sta...
KENT, Ohio – As she prepares to graduate from Kent State in December, senior Sophia Edmunds reflects on an unexpected achievement that capped off her senior year. On Dec. 1, Edmunds – a senior fashion merchandising major and marketing minor – took first place in the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Idea Pitch competition for her idea, REVEIL. The competition, hosted by the John S. and Marlene J. Brinzo Center for Entrepreneurship, helps Kent State students develop their startup companies and pitch their business ideas to a panel of executive judges to...