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Kent State University President Beverly J. Warren, emeritus artist and educator of Pan-African Studies E. Timothy Moore and head football coach Sean Lewis will serve as the guest speakers at the Fall 2018 Bowman Breakfast. The semi-annual Bowman Breakfast, which began in 1963, brings together leaders from Kent State and the city of Kent in a forum designed to advance community issues and strengthen the town-gown relationship. The topic of the breakfast is “A Reflection on 100 Years of Homecoming.” The breakfast will take place Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Doors op...
The Office of Faculty and Graduate Student Retention, Success and Inclusion will host the annual Diversity Workshop on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, in the Ballroom Balcony of the Kent Student Center. This year’s workshop is titled, “A New Culture of Leadership for Equity and Success.” This year’s speaker is Tia McNair, Ph.D., Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. She oversees both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-imp...
The Student Multicultural Center (SMC) has had an exciting start to the Fall Semester! We welcomed 275 students to participate in our Kupita/Transiciones program. The students shared their experiences and mentioned they felt they belonged to Kent State and that they had a family within the Student Multicultural Center’s staff, student leaders, and participants. With over 30 cultural sessions, community building, and social activities, our Kupita/Transiciones participants felt very excited, proud, and prepared to go into the Fall 2018 semester! Two of our empowerment initiatives, Siste...
Over the past five years, SRVSS has led the charge in changing the culture around sexual and relationship violence that affects our community through education on healthy relationships, consent and power-based personal violence and empowering survivors. Now we look to the future and share that beginning July 1, 2018, we became an official center for support services, prevention education and awareness for the Kent State community. The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS) envisions a Kent State University community where all members learn, work and li...
Kent State University at Tuscarawas, Latino Cultural Connections and the Committee for the Celebration of Hispanic Heritage will present the second annual Latino Festival on Sat., Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Founders Hall at Kent State Tuscarawas. The festival celebrates the art, games, food and culture of Guatemala and other Latino nations. This family-friendly event is free for all. The Latino Festival will feature mixed media artist and Guatemalan native Hector Castellanos’ work with Alfombras de aserrin, sawdust carpets traditionally made at Easter time in Guatemala. The carpe...
Kent State Trumbull nurses support the community following a crisis at the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley. Kent State Trumbull’s Student Nurses Association (SNA) set up collection bins around campus and asked students, staff and faculty to donate new or gently used toys and books for the Rescue Mission. “The Student Nurses Association is focusing on our community this year. We really want to help our community and reach out. We wanted to get as many donations as we could,” Valerie Salyers, a junior nursing major and president of the Student Nurse Association told WYTV. SNA representative...
Peter C. Kratcoski, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, and co-presenters Gilbert Norden and Maximilian Edelbacher presented “Pre-Service Experiential Education/Training for Criminal Justice” at the International Police Executive Symposium/United Nations Symposium on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria, on Aug. 21, 2018. ...
Tracey Motter, DNP, RN, College of Nursing, has been appointed to the newly redesigned Northeast Ohio Nursing Initiative (NEONI) Advisory Board, a workforce initiative under the Center for Health Affairs. Learn more at www.kent.edu/nursing/news/kent-state-college-nursing-associate-dean-appointed-redesigned-neoni-advisory-board. ...