Steven R. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Evaluation and Measurement, presented “Subjectivity in the Social Sciences” at the 13th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Granada, Spain, on July 27, 2018. Summary: Subjectivity is ubiquitous and implies perspectives that range in scope from the intrapersonal (as in individual musings and daydreams) to the intercultural (as in communication between and among identities) and in sophistication from the inchoate babblings of infants to the theoretical pronouncements of philosophers and mathematicians. Q methodology i...
Steven R. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Evaluation and Measurement, authored “Autobiography and Problem Selection” in Operant Subjectivity, Vol. 39, Issue 1-2 (2017) 82-97. Summary: The proposition that “participants pursue values through institutions utilizing resources” finds expression in the problems with which participants become concerned and which they choose to address, and these choices in turn are a function of prior life experiences as revealed in policy-related autobiographies. As part of a pedagogical exercise focused on the policy process, university students in a senio...
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Familiar Face Faith Sheaffer-Polen Outreach Program Director Corporate University Stark Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: hink of us as a match-making service for corporate education. Our team meets with hundreds of employers during the year and listens to challenges and needs of their organization and of their work team. We have a database of trainers and facilitators we then “match” to the needs of the company and create a training plan for them. After making the introduction, we manage the relationship, which we hope is for the lifetime of the company! Another popular service we prov...
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New Face Theresa Yogi Coordinator, Admissions and Scholarships Honors College Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Coordinating admissions and scholarships for the Honors College and serving as an Honors College advisor WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2018 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I previously served as the director of undergraduate programs for the University of Akron’s College of Engineering. I coordinated their recruitment, admissions, scholarships, student organizations and often advised incoming freshmen regarding majors. Prior to my time at t...
With a new semester fast approaching, Kent State University community members are focusing on new projects and initiatives, and welcoming and nurturing our new students, as well as already resetting to foster and strengthen recruiting efforts for the incoming 2019 class. Just as supporting student success and recruitment efforts evolve, so too, must one of the university’s main communication tools – the website. To heighten its alignment with university-wide recruitment efforts, University Communications and Marketing and the Division of Information Services partnered to launch a more...
Faculty, staff, students and visitors to Kent State University will no longer have to deal with orange barrels, detours and traffic delays on Summit Street. After more than two years of construction, the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of fall classes. Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume in the construction area on Aug. 15, weather permitting. The project, which was managed by the city of Kent, began in the spring of 2016 and made improvements to a one-mile stretch of roadway between Lincoln...
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KSU Kickoff, Kent State University’s four-day new student orientation, will take place from Aug. 19-22. Students can select from more than 50 different events from Sunday to Wednesday. KSU Kickoff helps students transition into the university community and learn about academic and social opportunities at Kent State. “KSU Kickoff is a great name for this start-of-school event, as our goal is to get students connected and plugged into our campus community right away,” says Josh Perkins, Kent State’s assistant director for Student Success Programs. “The KSU Kickoff event provides many dif...
The Kent State University alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. Kent State University will hold its Summer 2018 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). The Kent Campus will confer 1,325 degrees, including 834 bachelor’s degrees, 410 master’s degrees, 68 doctoral degrees and 13 educational specialist degrees. Across the university’s eight-campus system, 1,487 students will graduate from Kent State this summer, including those recei...
The Kent State University alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. Kent State University will hold its Summer 2018 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). The Kent Campus will confer 1,325 degrees, including 834 bachelor’s degrees, 410 master’s degrees, 68 doctoral degrees and 13 educational specialist degrees. Across the university’s eight-campus system, 1,487 students will graduate from Kent State this summer, including those rec...