As part of its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration held Jan. 24, Kent State University has announced the 2020 recipients of its Diversity Trailblazer Award, Beverly J. Warren Unity Award for Diversity and Rozell Duncan Student Diversity Award. Diversity Trailblazer Award Alfreda Brown, Kent State’s vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, was honored with the university’s 2020 Diversity Trailblazer Award for her years of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion across all eight Kent State campuses. The Diversity Trailblazer Award recognizes diversity pioneers associa...
Kent State University Geauga Campus is not just an academic institution. It’s also a workplace where young adults with special needs receive on-the-job training and transferrable skills that make them productive citizens in their own communities. This has become possible through a new partnership with the Educational Service Center of the Western Reserve (ESC), formerly the Geauga County Educational Service Center. Through the ESC, Kent State Geauga is a new job training site for local students with physical, cognitive, social, and/or emotional disabilities. The students, aged 16-22, are en...
Kent State's Employee Assistance Program, IMPACT, Introduces TESS TESS Provides Mental Health Support Using Artificial Intelligence TESS is an artificial intelligence chatbox that provides users with psychological and emotional support and improves your mental health and well-being. TESS, like all IMPACT services, is available to all Kent State full- and part-time faculty/staff, their spouse/domestic partner, dependent children in and away from home, and parents/parents-in-law. Tess simulates how a human would behave as a conversational partner while providing clinically prov...
On Friday, Jan. 24, members of the Kent State University community and the general public will gather to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will start at 4 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. This year’s keynote speaker is Melissa Harris-Perry, Ph.D., the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, television host, author and political commentator. At Wake Forest, Harris-Perry serves as the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, whose mission is to advance justice through interse...
Weight management can be challenging for all adolescents, but those from low-income families face added stressors that can make weight loss even more difficult. Those are the findings of Amy Sato, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, who has been studying the connection between obesity and low-income youth for more than seven years. “My focus is on pediatric obesity health disparities,” Sato said. “My passion is really finding ways to help youth who are from lower income areas to be healthier.” Sato’s current research is funded by a two-year, $417,000...
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U.S. News & World Report has named two Kent State University programs as U.S. News Best Online Programs for 2020. Kent State is recognized in the Best Online MBA Programs and Best Online Graduate Education Programs rankings. U.S. News released its 2020 Best Online Programs rankings Tuesday, Jan. 14. Kent State’s Online MBA program, offered by the College of Business Administration, advanced to the top ranked program in northern Ohio on the 2020 Best Online MBA Programs list. In addition, the Online MBA is ranked among the top 100 public programs in the nation in the 2020 rankings. Th...
为迎接2020年的到来，我们开启了“免费申请周”活动！美国东部时间2020年1月25日至2月2日期间，所有国际学生都可以在申请时免除申请费用。请务必在美国东部时间2020年2月2日晚上11时59分之前提交在线申请，成绩单及推荐信等文件证明材料可以在申请后提交。 本科申请：在肯特州立大学官方页面提交申请（在申请时选择“稍后付款”，然后给我们发送电子邮件以免除申请费），或使用“Common App”并输入费用豁免代码“KSU2020”。 研究生申请：在肯特州立大学官方页面提交申请，不需要任何代码，也无需向我们发送电子邮件，申请费用可以自动免除。 我们每年向符合条件的优秀国际留学新生提供最高20,000美元的奖学金，获得该奖学金的一个重要条件是需要在2月1日之前被录取。但为了保证所有本科学生都有机会享受奖学金的福利，也为了配合我们的免费申请周活动，我们将考虑把奖学金申请者的录取时间更改为2020年2月2日。在美国东部时间2020年2月2日晚上11时59分前提交所有入学材料及奖学金申请材料的本科新生才有机会获得奖学金。需要特别注意的是，SAT或ACT成绩虽然不作为国际留学生的入学参考标准，但仍然是能否获得国际留学生新生奖学金的一项重要指标。 ...
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Kent State University's Department of Psychological Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett has been selected for the 2020 Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). The ADAA regards this award “to honor the memory and lifework of Jerilyn Ross, cofounder of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and president from 1985 to 2010. This award acknowledges an ADAA member professional who exemplifies excellence and outstanding advocacy for patient...