The Kent State University Police Department was recently awarded national accreditation for the ninth time by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) in the Law Enforcement program. The Kent State Police Department was first accredited in 1991. Following four annual documentation reviews and a meticulous site-based assessment of community engagement, policy, procedures, equipment and facilities by CALEA assessors, the Kent State Police Department was presented for review at CALEA’s 2020 Conference. Each agency being reviewed goes before CALEA’s 21-member Bo...

Kent State University will implement a new administrative policy regarding painting the Rock, which is located on Hilltop Drive on the Kent Campus. The policy, which goes into effect Jan. 11, 2021, is one of the institutional responses to racially offensive language that was painted on the Rock in 2020 and aimed at African American students.  The purpose of the policy is to promote consistency between the use of the Rock and other similar policies that provide procedures that will not interfere with the university functions of teaching, research, public service, administration or autho...

Dean Angela Spalsbury invited faculty, staff, and students to nominate Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center full-time and part-time faculty members as well as a full-time or part-time staff member to be selected for the Fall 2020 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance placed on superior teaching and encourages teaching achievement. The staff award is equally important but emphasizes an employee who supports the day-to-day operations of the two-site campus and the Students First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Fall 2020 Excellence Aw...

Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a journal article  Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: The Heart of Anthropological Research,  Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Anthropologia culturalis, Jakub Havlicek, Volume 10, Issue 1, (2020): 5-17. ...