Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, associate dean of academics, and Mary Kutchin, Ph.D., APRN-CNS, lecturer, are faculty researchers from Kent State University’s College of Nursing, who recently received nearly $4 million in grant funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop an LPN-to-BSN pathway called the LPN Education Advancement Program (LEAP). In partnership with Erin Slay, DNP, MHA, RN, system director of ambulatory nursing, and Holly Ma, DNP, MS, RN, NPD-BC, system director of nursing education and nurse leader center at University Hospitals (UH), this program will p...

The dynamic leadership of Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., as director of the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, has been a driving force for the center’s success in the three years she has been in the role. She is passionate about the advancement of international and intercultural education through the center and its programs, saying “At the end of the day, I love the kind of work that we do here, and I love that I get to do it.”  Johnson, a first-generation college student, earned her Bachelor of Arts in History from Hollins College and Master of Arts in Teach...

Associate Professor Sonya E. Irving, Ph.D., received the Bronze Teaching Recognition award for Fostering Perseverance in Mathematics. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at Kent State, including graduate students and faculty of all appointment types (TT, NTT, adjunct) are eligible...