Update: This email was updated to reflect that instructors may teach without wearing a mask, provided they can maintain safe distance from their students. Dear Kent State University Faculty, As we approach the beginning of our spring semester, we continue to closely monitor the ongoing surge of COVID-19. The health and safety of our community remains our top priority as we prepare to welcome you back to our campuses. The university has several COVID-19 prevention committees that include experts from our College of Public Health. Our strategy, outlined below, for safely starting ...
Dear Kent State University Staff, As we approach the beginning of our spring semester, we continue to closely monitor the ongoing surge of COVID-19. The health and safety of our community remains our top priority as we prepare to welcome students to our campuses. The university has several COVID-19 prevention committees that include experts from our College of Public Health. Our strategy, outlined below, for safely starting the 2022 Spring Semester is based on the input and advice from these committees and experts from our local health departments as well as the Centers for Disease Contr...
Recreation and Wellness Membership Options for Kent and Regional Campus Employees Faculty and staff who sign up for an auto-debit or payroll deduction membership to the Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent campus between January 1 and January 31, 2022, will incur no membership payments until mid-February! Learn more via the SRWC membership website, and visit the Pro Shop at the Rec Center in January to start your membership. New option for regional campus employees Kent State regional campus faculty and...
My name is Lauren Falter, and I am a graduate student at Kent State studying Speech-Language Pathology. I recently earned my undergraduate degree from Kent State with a major in Speech Pathology and Audiology and two minors in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Education. I reflect positively on my time at Kent State and as a student researcher in the Swallowing Physiology and Rehabilitation Research (SPARR) Laboratory on campus. Throughout high school, I pondered careers with educational and medical focuses, and I found the field of Speech-Language Pathology to be the perfe...
I took an architecture survey class upstairs – cementing my life of writing about design and the built environment. My wife of 33 years, Heidi Johnson-Wright (B.A. in English, Kent, 1982) lived next door at Prentice Hall. My wife uses a wheelchair for mobility and did then. The seeds of my activism for people with disabilities and all marginalized folks were planted right there – in the sacred ground between Taylor and Prentice, where May 4th observances take place. My first job was with the Columbus Dispatch (I zeroed in only on central Ohio where my wife was starting la...
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced students and faculty at Kent State to learn and work remotely in spring of 2020, students in the School of Media and Journalism were at risk of losing internships. As a response to the developing situation, the School organized a project called the Collaborative NewsLab to provide students with real world work experience, while newsrooms, hit with unprecedented financial challenges, were resorting to layoffs and furloughs. Fast-forward a year-and-a-half, and the NewsLab contin...
A degree from Kent State’s School of Media and Journalism can lead to opportunities to work across fields and businesses — and all over the world. Alumna Mary Jo Spletzer, ’10, has used what she learned as a public relations major to make her mark at Atlantis Resorts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Spletzer met the man who would become her husband — an exchange student from Germany — during her senior year, so “it was inevitable that I ended up living and working outside of the U.S.” But she began her career locally at...