A basic tool kit includes things such as hammers, screwdrivers, nails and more. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit offers so much more, and Kent State's Center for Adults and Veterans Services (CAVS) took full advantage of it to help adult and parenting students. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit, created by Endicott College, is a free-to-use tool for universities that assists and informs schools of ways to strategically support parenting students at their individual institutions. As of 2018, Kent State University was one of the first schools to implement this plan on its campus. &n...
Always working to stay ahead of the curve in the marketplace, administrators at Kent State University Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center offer students pathways to gain professional skills and certifications that are in demand. Considering the urgent need for respiratory therapists in the healthcare industry, an Associate of Applied Science degree in Respiratory Therapy Technology program is now being offered at the Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Academic Center. “This is an amazing program,” says Megan Krippel, Director of Enrollment Management and Student Support Services. “By putting ...
Kent State University at Ashtabula College Credit Plus (CCP) student Elizabeth Budy will be among those recognized by the Northeastern Ohio section of the American Chemistry Society (NEOACS) at its annual Young Scientist Awards on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Budy, a junior at Jefferson Area High School, was nominated by Associate Professor of Chemistry Ann Abraham, Ph.D. in the College Chemistry Student Volunteer of the Year category. “From the first week of fall semester, Liz has expressed interest in becoming a chemist,” Abraham said. “She began working with me every week, testing act...
Kent State University alumni who served as editor of the Daily Kent Stater each faced the challenge of covering the anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest. Several former editors of the campus student newspaper, now known as the Kent Stater, shared their thoughts on how the anniversary was perceived and how coverage changed over the course of five decades. “We felt compelled to put ourselves back in the 1970 Spring Quarter time frame, but also to reflect where our campus culture and pulse wer...
Kent State University at Ashtabula Human Services Technology Associate Lecturer Joan Steidl has produced a program to air as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 on WKSU 89.7 FM, Kent State University’s award-winning NPR public news radio station. “The Power of So Many Flowers” first aired Wednesday, April 29, during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. It is one of five programs in the “Fragments of May 4th: Artifacts, Mementos, and Meaning” series. Steidl put together the audio production of the piece. Graduate journalism student Lyndsey Brennan wrote the story whic...
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Kent State University student Sean Fitzgerald shares what it’s like being a resident assistant (RA), co-hosting a sports radio show and living on the autism spectrum. Sean Fitzgerald traces the beginning of his love of sports and talking about sports to car rides with his father in his hometown of Strongsville, Ohio. Together, they talked sports while listening to Northeast Ohio sports personality Kenny Roda on the radio. Fast forward a decade or so and now, in his junior year, Fitzgerald is beginning his fifth semester co-hosting his own popular sports radio program on Kent State...
Timothy Mikes is a graduate student in Kent State University’s College of Public Health with a specialty in epidemiology. He’s also on the autism spectrum and using his perspective to enhance the university experience for other students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When Timothy Mikes relates the story of how he went from studying nursing as an undergraduate to becoming a graduate student in the College of Public Health, it unfolds as a logical progression from step-to-step. His interest in health took him from nursing, to biology and then finally to public health. Mikes used hi...