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 staff member to be selected for the Spring 2022 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance of 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 Student's First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Spring 2022 Excellence Award recipients: Faculty Exce...

Kent State University at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center held its commencement ceremony on Friday, May 13, 2022, to conclude the 2021-22 academic year. Over 135 students earned their associate or bachelor's degrees and were honored during the ceremony, held at Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls. Angela Spalsbury welcomed an audience of over 250, where she presented awards in special recognition of alumni and community connection and staff and faculty excellence. Sarah Mast, a 2014 magna cum laude graduate from Kent State Geauga's Bachelor of Science in Middle Childhood Education program, ...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff,Kent State will host a Juneteenth Jubilee on Saturday, June 18, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Manchester Field on the Kent Campus. The university plans to make this an annual event.Established as a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth celebrates the courage and perseverance of Black Americans by observing the end of slavery in the United States and commemorates the day when the news of emancipation reached enslaved Black Americans in Texas.Juneteenth is an opportunity for all of us to acknowledge the history of our nation, honor the life a...

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Last summer, as the Taliban took over Afghanistan, many Afghans fled the country. Some landed in Akron, where a network of volunteers and government, nonprofit and educational organizations were waiting. Akron has one of the largest refugee resettlement programs in Ohio. Their goal is to help new arrivals find not just a haven, but a home in Akron. During the spring 2022 semester, 16 journalism students in the Advanced Magazine Writing class, taught by Professor Jacqueline Marino, went to Akron’s North Hill neighborhood, where immigrants from more than a dozen nations work and live. ...

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