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Administrative policy and procedures regarding academic administrative structures: centers

  1. Purpose. The university recognizes and designates several types of academic administrative structures that serve to facilitate its academic mission. Centers created under this policy provide an organizational identity to selected programs and participating faculty, staff and students, and supplement and complement the mission of academic units. However, centers shall not serve as the site of primary academic appointments for faculty nor shall they offer any academic degree or certificate.
  2. Definitions.
    1. Center.
Policy Effective Date:
Jul 03, 2025

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Administrative policy and procedures regarding academic administrative structures: institutes

  1. Purpose. The university recognizes and designates several types of academic administrative structures that serve to facilitate its academic mission. Institutes created under this policy provide an organizational identity to selected programs and participating faculty, staff and students and supplement and complement the mission of academic units. However, institutes shall not serve as the site of primary academic appointments for faculty nor shall they offer any academic degree or certificate.
  2. Definitions.
    1. Institute.
Policy Effective Date:
Jul 03, 2025

Award winners Peggy and John Stratton and Kevin Korns

This year, Peggy and John Stratton, of New Philadelphia, are the 2022 recipients of the Kent State Tuscarawas Community Service Award. This recognition is given to valued members of the community who have generously made our community and Kent State University at Tuscarawas a better place. Providing scholarship support and educational opportunities to area students have become a passion for the Strattons at New Philadelphia High School, Buckeye Career Center and Kent State Tuscarawas. In 1993, John Stratton was on the founding board of the New Philadelphia High Quaker Foundation. The fou...

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University policy regarding textbook selection

  1. Policy statement. In order to provide more affordable options for students, and pursuant to Section 3345.025 of the Revised Code, faculty shall consider best practices in affordability in choosing course materials. These best practices include, but are not limited to, standardizing materials over multiple sections of the same course, the use of e-texts, the adoption of an inclusive access model, and the use of open educational resources. Pursuant to Section 133 (20 U.S.C.
Policy Effective Date:
Jul 03, 2025
College of Communication & Information

Emily Metzgar photo with Jargon overlay

I’m writing this column from the lobby of a terminally hip hotel at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, eagerly awaiting the return of 14 CCI students who cheerfully embraced an unexpected opportunity to explore Paris on a warm, spring afternoon. To quote The Princess Bride, “Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” When offered the opportunity to accompany 14 CCI students en route to their three-week intersession course at Kent State’s campus in Florence, Italy, I jumped at it. Alas, like many of the best-laid travel plans, our group’s itinerary didn’t survive first contact...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, This is a reminder that face coverings are now required indoors at these Kent State locations: The College of Podiatric Medicine in Independence The Cleveland Foot and Ankle Clinic in Cleveland The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland Kent State University at Ashtabula Masks are required indoors at these locations, except while working alone in an enclosed space such as a private office or lab. Kent State is following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for counties at “...

Caitlin Kane

Kent, OH – The School of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce the appointment of Caitlin Kane, Ph.D as assistant professor of Theatre History beginning in the Fall of 2022. Caitlin Kane (she/they) is a director, dramaturg, and scholar whose work sits at the intersection of theater and social change and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Caitlin holds a Ph.D. in Performing and Media Arts with minors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Directing from Cornell University. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, Performing...

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