Familiar Face Natalie Caine-Bish Associate Professor School of Health Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Nutrition faculty and Didactic Program director WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2005 in my current position. I was a graduate assistant beginning August 1997. EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I have to go back all the way to working during my undergraduate program as a residence hall desk attendant. Since then, I have been working at Kent State. I worked as a graduate assistant beginning in 1997 and then was hired as faculty at Kent State in 2004. ...

New Face Dale Eilrich Senior Business Manager University College Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Plan, develop and manage the business and financial operations of a college or typically a large department or unit. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, National City Bank LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The people, the culture and the campus community. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The students-first focus, the academic success, ...

Kent State University’s Career Exploration and Development is excited to announce that Handshake will replace Flash @ Work as the new career management platform, which offers new features that will enable students to:  Apply for on-campus student employment positions. Access personalized career and internship recommendations based on major and interests. Register for career fairs and other events. Manage on-campus interviews and connect with top companies. Current and future student employee supervisors will now use Handshake to post student employment position...

Beginning in the fall of 1968, the Office of Minority Affairs was created within the Human Relations Center to serve as a liaison with and provide consultative and special services to minority groups, students, and organizations. The overall goal of the Office of Minority Affairs was for the students they served to realize their full educational potential as noted by Dr. Wilson in April of 1970. The first person to head the office was Donald Thigpen, a political science student who also served as the co-chairman of Black United Students. Thigpen would graduate that December and continue as the...

Imagine being ill for several years. Doctors cannot concretely diagnose the problem despite several tests. Then suddenly, one day after what seems to be hundreds of appointments, an urgent call from the doctor instructs you to go straight to the emergency room. For Rebecca Urycki, senior secretary in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ advising office, this was her story. During the 20 years of vague diagnoses and no definitive answers, Ms. Urycki made it a point to get routine physical checkups each year, including end of year 2014. “The week before my physical, I h...

Paige Barnum, Brian Cochran, Ryan Dowling, Parker Henderson, Samantha Kenney, Hannah Miller and Kayla Norris who attend the Kent, Salem and Stark campuses of Kent State University were among 24 Northeast Ohio nursing students accepted to intern at Akron Children’s Hospital as part of the Assuring Success with a Commitment to Enhance Nurse Diversity (ASCEND) program. In its fourth year, the ASCEND program works with traditionally underrepresented populations within the nursing profession, such as minority groups or first-generation college students. During their summer internship, which be...

WKSU was honored by the Press Club of Cleveland with nine Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards at a ceremony on June 1 at the House of Blues in downtown Cleveland. The station won five first-place awards and the best-in-show award for Best Newscast, which WKSU staff has received in four of the past five years. Award entries were judged by a panel of journalism professionals from press clubs and news publications across the country.   WKSU winners of 2018 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Press Club of Cleveland are: Best in Show – Radio Newscast, Major Mar...