Kent State University students are requesting additional mental health counseling resources, and the university is working on multiple fronts of keep up with student needs. Kent State recently was featured in an article from The New York Times for its hiring of additional counselors in an effort to help students live mentally sound lives. The article notes how Kent State has added nine clinical health positions across all eight campuses. These new hires are a direct result of President Beverly J. Warren’s push to support student and staff mental wellness on campus. Kent State also pro...
An excellent education is a major building block for a better future and a great career. But a college degree is only part of the puzzle. A great résumé, online access to job opportunities and effective interviewing skills all help students to leverage their academic strengths and previous work experiences to land that dream job. Thanks to a new partnership between Kent State University at Geauga and the OhioMeansJobs Geauga County Center in Chardon, the quality and quantity of employment and training resources for the local workforce have been greatly enhanced. According to their new ...
The Performing Arts Center is offering a free percussion workshop to area youth with Collision of Rhythm prior to the group’s performance on Saturday, March 16. Collision of Rhythm is what you get when you combine a tap dancing percussion virtuoso with a beatbox juggling motivational speaker! Bronkar and Aaron are multiple world-record holders that have worked with companies like GoPro, Coca Cola, and Google, and have been featured on television programs such as The Tonight Show and America's Got Talent. Collision of Rhythm has been described as Stomp meets Blue Man Group meets Ci...
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View Livestream Delivering his remarks to a packed FirstEnergy Auditorium, CNN’s chief media correspondent and anchor of the weekly program “Reliable Sources,” Brian Stelter talked about the current media environment and delivered 11 keys for ethical journalism in the fake news era (see sidebar/graphic). In his lecture, entitled “Telling the Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts,” Stelter also encouraged students to find the one thing they were more passionate about than anyone they knew and really dive into it. He advised writing constantly to build up what he called “muscle memory” so you ...
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CNN’s Brian Stelter shares his advice for Kent State students pursuing a career in journalism in an exclusive interview with CCI. Q: You started a blog in college about the media called TvNewser and actually sold it to a company. How can a student jump start something like that today? A: What's amazing about the internet is that you can bring like-minded people together about any topic. Nothing is too small. No matter what you're interested in there is someone else out there who's also interested in it and you can bring people together. Q: What does the future of journalism ...
Kent State University English Professor Vera Camden, Ph.D., turned a movement against sexual assault and harassment into a course in order to study the impact of the movement and the forces that led to it. Dr. Camden’s inspiration to start the #MeToo: Women and New Media course was internally motivated, but sparked by external factors. “My hope is to keep a certain momentum going,” Dr. Camden said. “Because so often in our culture, things spike, and then they go away. I really feel like this is so important and so urgent and so serious.” Dr. Camden has a long-standing interest in wome...
In February, Rockwell Automation hosted a hackathon, 24toCode, to get the word out about what they do. They defined their hackathon as an intense problem-solving event lasting 24 hours at their Mayfield Heights location. Students were invited to bring a team or show up as an individual and form a team with other participants. Patrick Baker, an engineering student from the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and Jacob Lebowitz from the College of Arts and Sciences, a computer science major, won first place in the competition. “We were given a manufacturing dataset which we analyzed and th...