Hello DI TEAM and REGULAR members! Please read through our recent updates - we have some changes to the planning for the next DI TEAM meeting, plans for engaging all newly-admitted Kent State students with DI, as well as some great progress with students starting the DI Fellows Program! DI Fellows Program: Please welcome the students shown below as the pioneers (and co-designers) of the DI Fellows Program! We started our first meeting by taking a sneek peek tour of the DI HUB. (see attached photo, in case you are not yet following our instagram/facebook feeds). Following the tour we h...
Some people may regard live theater as a frivolous luxury. But Danielle Weiser-Cline sees it as crucial to effective education and essential to civic engagement in a democratic society. Even more fundamentally, she regards live theater as a component of ‘human flourishing.’ Aristotle defined this ancient concept — the inventor of logic — as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue their own purposes in life. Weiser-Cline is Director of Enrollment Management and Student Services at Kent S...
University Press Nominated for Pen America Literary Award A Kent State University Press publication, Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape, authored by Deborah Fleming, has been named a finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay at the 2020 Pen America Literary Awards Ceremony. The winners will be announced at a March 2 ceremony hosted by Seth Meyers at the Town Hall in New York. “This is a top tier award, and it’s quite an honor to even be in the final five,” said Kenneth J. Burhanna, dean and professor, Kent State ...
Kent State University’s Center for Adult and Veteran Services (CAVS) has been selected as the outstanding undergraduate program for adult learners by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), a leading professional association in student affairs. In a Feb. 3, 2020, letter to President Todd Diacon, NASPA announced that the CAVS program is the Annual Outstanding Undergraduate Adult Learning Program recipient. CAVS was selected for the honor by the Adult Learners and Students with Children NASPA Knowledge Community, a group within ...
It was a defining moment for 35-year-old N.J. Akbar, Ph.D., on the day the Detroit native turned Akron resident was publicly recognized for earning his doctoral degree. A moment that almost didn’t happen. “It was surreal, but it was also numbing,” Akbar told WKYC. He earned his doctorate in Cultural Foundations of Education from Kent State University where he serves as an Assistant Dean in Kent’s University College while simultaneously holding the Vice Presidency position of the Akron Board of Education. Akbar grew up in poverty in Detroit’s 48204 neighborhood, an area once considered on...
The first rubber condoms were manufactured in 1838. Along with abstinence, they would remain the only effective and widely available means of male contraception until the vasectomy became a common procedure in the mid 20th century. Since then all contraceptives have focused on the female reproductive tract, with varying results, complications, and controversies. Now a team of Kent State University researchers has proposed a new method of contraception that may soon be accessible for both men and women, with an emphasis on inhibiting sperm fertility. Souvik Dey and Alaa Eisa are gra...
Rick Feinberg and Martha Noyes, Anthropology, presented "Organized Session on "Cultural Astronomies of Oceania"; presented paper on "Taumako Astronomy" at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Hilo, Hawaii on January 25, 2020. ...
U.S. News and World Report于1月14日发布了2020年最佳在线学位教育项目排行榜（Online Program Rank)。肯特州立大学的“在线MBA学位教育项目”与“在线研究生学位教育项目”获得了U.S. News 的认可，被认证为2020年U.S. News 最佳在线学位教育项目之一。 由工商管理学院（College of Business Administration）提供的肯特州立大学MBA学位, 线上项目，在2020年度最佳MBA线上学位项目列表中升至俄亥俄州北部排名最高的项目计划。此外，该在线MBA项目在2020年公立学校中名列全美前100之一。 这是肯特州立大学于2017年秋季推出的MBA学位线上项目的第二年。肯特州立大学的在线MBA项目以灵活的课程时间，战略性课程设计形式为学生提供世界知名的教授访问机会。肯特州立大学工商管理学院院长Deborah F. Spake博士说：“该学院的专业教职人员团队创建了引人入胜，协作且易于访问的课程，这些课程由专门的教学设计师团队提供支持。” “我们MBA项目中的大多数核心课程都通过了质量问题认证，这意味着它们符合严格的质量标准，而其余的核心课程预计将在2020年秋季学期之前通过质量认证（Quality Matters Certified） 。” 肯特州立大学的...
时尚奖学金基金会（FSF）的第83届年度盛典于1月7日在曼哈顿的纽约希尔顿酒店举行，在此次盛典中，我们看到了时尚界新一代杰出的设计人，Tyshaia Earnest就是其中之一。Tyshaia Earnest是肯特州立大学时尚学院的一名大四学生，她在当晚众多时尚设计人中脱颖而出，并获得了35,000美元的一等奖学金。 每年，时尚奖学金基金会（FSF）都会颁发超过100万美元的奖学金。在过去的五年中，该组织已与150多个公司合作伙伴一起帮助1,500名学者，其中包括Centric Brands，Macy's，Dereck Lam，Rent the Runway，Gap等时装行业巨头。今年，来自全国50所大学的211名奖学金候选人参加了此次盛会。 在决赛场上，Tyshaia认真的地介绍了Nordstrom和Period.org之间的合作，这给业界专家评判小组留下了深刻的印象，让Tyshaia脱颖而出，成为650余名申请人中的佼佼者。 “今年是Tyshaia第三次获得时尚奖学金基金” FSF执行董事Peter Arnold说 “Tyshaia和她的导师都提到，今年，她想要挑战自己，并在这一过程中进一步推进自己。她真的做到了！”Peter还提到：“Tyshaia凭借成功的案例研究分析和精彩的演讲赢得了在场所有评委老师的认可。当她在演...
January is a month about new beginnings and a fresh start. We are excited to get the new year started here at Kent State and we’ve already had several exciting events happen on campus! Let’s take a look back at some of our best social media content from the first month of the new year. Instagram Starting with Instagram, on Jan. 18, the post promoting our blog recapping your favorite photos of 2019 earned the top spot. It garnered 1,261 likes, which is the highest engagement for the month. View this post on Instagra...