Dear Kent State Community, We hope you are having a restful and enjoyable summer after the challenging year we have endured. You deserve it! We look forward to a dynamic, in-person campus experience for fall 2021. Today marks our first day as a self-operating dining program, and we have many exciting developments in our University Dining Services transition that will benefit our students, faculty and staff. In June, the Kent State Board of Trustees approved the selection of US Foods Inc.- Premier as our primary food vendor. We are happy to begin working with our new partners. Exp...
Dr. David Dees, dean of Kent State University at Salem, announced those students named to the Spring 2021 President’s and Dean’s lists. To qualify for the President’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the Salem Campus. The students and their hometowns are: President’s List Alliance: Shelby Dennis Boardman: Jessica...
When Dr. Vincent Hetherington was invited to participate in a discussion during the virtual meeting of the International Federation of Podiatrists (FIP) AGM on June 19th, he never suspected that there was an underlying reason for his attendance; Heidi Corcoran, the current President of the FIP, honored Dr. Hetherington with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In fact, it was the President herself that gave a personal nomination for the award, which was followed by a unanimous approval by the FIP board. "Vince was the founding member of our Academy of Podiatric Medical Educators," Heidi tells us, "Hi...
Please see the following announcement on behalf of Melody Tankersly, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Provost. I am pleased to announce that Dr. Zhiqiang Molly Wang will join the Office of the Provost in August to serve as the 2021-2022 Provost's Fellow. The Provost's fellowship provides faculty members who have an interest in academic administration the chance to develop knowledge, skills, and experience as an administrator; to increase the understanding of the faculty about practices and procedures in academic administration; to extend and strengthen the administrative resources of the u...
Grace Irvin-Dillard of Bedford, Ohio, who graduated from Kent State University in May 2021 with a degree in entrepreneurship, has already built a successful business from the ground up while still a student. During her time in the College of Business Administration at Kent State, Irvin-Dillard created Touched By Grace (TBG) Body Care, which she continues to grow after graduation. Irvin-Dillard and her business were recently featured by Spectrum News. Watch the story. TBG Body Care offers all-natural, clean beauty and skincare products with an emphasis on sustainability. “When you get ...
The Business Leadership Training (BLT) is a partnership between Kent State Twinsburg Academic Center and the Twinsburg and Nordonia Hills Chambers of Commerce. The BLT bi-monthly programming is free and open to the public. The fourth program of 2021 is titled “Selling for Connectedness - The New Sales Reality for High Performance” and is scheduled via Zoom on Thursday, July 22, from noon – 1 PM. Andy (Drew) Carlton, an experienced sales expert with 25 years in the field, will cover the mindset shifts and power skills you’ll need to transform from old sales thinking to the new realities of s...
It's uncanny but true! For the second consecutive year, five English students of Bonnie Shaker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English from Kent State University at Geauga, were standout writing award winners. Three of Dr. Shaker's students swept the Virginia Perryman Awards in the regional campus Freshman Writing category, while two others were among the top three winners of the College Writing I & II Essay Contest. Perryman Award winners were Lucia Lubanovich (first place), Erin Piczer (second place), and Jillian Stewart (third place). Among College Writing awards, Gregory...
Kent State Magazine Spring/Summer 2021 By Candace Goforth DeSantis, BS ’94, and Jim Maxwell, BS ’00, MS ’11 By now, it is well understood that the role of women in science has gone largely uncredited throughout history. In recent years, a movement has grown to correct the record and bring attention to the overlooked contributions of women scientists. One of those women is Eunice Newton Foote, whose discovery 165 years ago paved the way for our modern understanding of Earth’s natural greenhouse effect, which is fundamental to the study of climate change. Photo by Bob Christy, BS ‘95" typeof="...
Kent State's history of support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) community is well documented. Earlier this year, Kent State's LGBTQ+ Center celebrated its 10-year anniversary while PRIDE!Kent (founded as the Kent Gay Liberation Front (KGLF) in 1971) observed five decades at Kent State, making it the longest continuously operating LGBTQ student organization in the country. Ken Ditlevson has been the director of Kent State’s LGBTQ+ Center since 2014. For Pride Month, Kent State Today asked him a few questions about this landmark year....
KENT, Ohio – Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., Dean of the Kent State College of Administration, has been named a 2021 recipient of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group (Higher Ed SIG) Lifetime Achievement Award. The Higher Ed SIG Lifetime Achievement Award honors a marketing scholar who has demonstrated distinct accomplishments and dedication to the area of higher education in the marketing discipline. Spake is Dean of the College of Business Administration and Professor of Marketing at Kent State University. She serves on the Initial ...