You know how at Thanksgiving dinner everyone is trained to avoid the touchy subjects – politics, religion, money?  Society teaches us to dodge sensitive topics of discussion to maintain civil and peaceful relationships in the workplace, our neighborhoods and our families.  That needs to change, said Johanna Solomon, assistant professor at Kent State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.  “We need to be talking about those things,” she said, and we need to be able to talk about them with civility.  The Community Dialogue Workshop, a three-day event that sta...

The College of Education, Health and Human Services welcomes George A. Kamberelis, Ph.D., as the new director for the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies. Kamberelis was most recently the Department Chair and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Education and Co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Western Colorado University, with decades of other academic appointments throughout the country. Although it is his first time living and teaching in Ohio, he is looking forward to the opportunities to come.   When it comes to his new position, Kamberel...