Division of University Communications and Marketing
Despite the ups, downs and uncertainties of this unprecedented year, the Kent State community has made it through, together. (Flashes Take Care of Flashes, after all.) For this final blog post of 2020, we wanted to take a look back at the posts that resonated most with our audiences this year. Here’s some background on some of the top posts highlighted in the video above: FLASHES SAFE SEVEN Communication was key in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and social media played a huge role in making sure ...
The Bike Box Living Roof Lab in Cleveland, Ohio received an Award of Excellence from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities for built projects. Led by CAED Associate Professor Dr. Reid Coffman, the highly collaborative project reclaims a sliver of the concrete jungle in Cleveland while making discoveries on how living architecture can aid global conservation efforts. Funded in 2013 by the Northeast Ohio Sewer District to profile urban green infrastructure, the 149 square foot green roof caps a repurposed shipping container transformed into a bike shelter for one of Cleveland’s most popular urban n...
Kent State University’s inaugural drive-thru food distribution event on Dec. 16 in partnership with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank served more than 200 households. The event was also an unofficial kickoff to an impactful partnership. The Campus Kitchen at Kent State teamed up with the food bank to host a contactless food distribution event at Dix Stadium to help those in need and marked the beginning of a multimonth initiative. The team from the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank reached out to the Campus Kitchen at Kent State after receiving a grant from Feeding America to b...
The Kent State University Police Department was recently awarded national accreditation for the ninth time by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) in the Law Enforcement program. The Kent State Police Department was first accredited in 1991. Following four annual documentation reviews and a meticulous site-based assessment of community engagement, policy, procedures, equipment and facilities by CALEA assessors, the Kent State Police Department was presented for review at CALEA’s 2020 Conference. Each agency being reviewed goes before CALEA’s 21-member Bo...
Kent State University will implement a new administrative policy regarding painting the Rock, which is located on Hilltop Drive on the Kent Campus. The policy, which goes into effect Jan. 11, 2021, is one of the institutional responses to racially offensive language that was painted on the Rock in 2020 and aimed at African American students. The purpose of the policy is to promote consistency between the use of the Rock and other similar policies that provide procedures that will not interfere with the university functions of teaching, research, public service, administration or autho...
Dean Angela Spalsbury invited faculty, staff, and students to nominate Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center full-time and part-time faculty members as well as a full-time or part-time staff member to be selected for the Fall 2020 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance placed on superior teaching and encourages teaching achievement. The staff award is equally important but emphasizes an employee who supports the day-to-day operations of the two-site campus and the Students First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Fall 2020 Excellence Aw...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a journal article Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: The Heart of Anthropological Research, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Anthropologia culturalis, Jakub Havlicek, Volume 10, Issue 1, (2020): 5-17. ...
The President’s Award of Distinction was created as a recognition program to reward staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, service, leadership, and dedication to Kent State in advancing the university’s strategic priorities and core values. Nominees for the award must have demonstrated exceptional performance in living the university’s core values and/or advancing the priorities of the Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State. Award recipients were selected by President Todd Diacon. The Division of Student Affairs had two staff members -- Director of the Student ...