Dear Kent State University Students, We know that experiential learning experiences are a critical part of student learning. As part of Kent State’s reopening effort during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are conditions that may impact your internship, co-op, student teaching, clinical or volunteer experiences. You should work closely with your program coordinator and/or instructor of record before you commence participation in these experiences. Kent State’s Experiential Learning Information website provides the most up-to-date information regarding experiential learning. This site also inclu...

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Kent State University a $2.6 million, five-year TRIO Student Support Services program grant. The program serves students from first-generation and low-income backgrounds and students with diverse learning and physical abilities. Kent State’s Student Support Services (SSS) program, housed in University College, serves 300 students annually through a holistic community approach offering peer mentoring, tutoring, academic, cultural, personal, professional and leadership development experiences. The program has a proven track record of helping studen...

Dear Kent State University Faculty, Deans, Chairs and Coordinators, Experiential learning experiences are a critical part of student learning. As part of Kent State’s reopening effort and keeping the university community safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, several documents have been developed to provide guidance for off-campus sites hosting Kent State students. This guidance also provides information for students and instructors. All the information can also be found on the Experiential Learning Information website. We ask you share this information with your external sites that provide lea...

Kent, OH – National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $84 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2020.  Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $35,000 to the Kent State University Museum (KSU Museum) for the upcoming TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair exhibition, set to open on Sept. 10, 2021. This is one of 1015 grants nationwide that the agency has approved in this category.  “These awards demonstrate the resilience of the arts in America, showcasing not on...

In January, as the new spring semester began, Katelyn McKinney was like thousands of other college and high school students: counting down the months until a May graduation ceremony and excited about all the activities leading up to that special day. Less than two months from graduation, however, everything came to a halt as the COVID-19 pandemic hit. McKinney was in the middle of her last clinical rotation as a student in the Kent State East Liverpool’s occupational therapy assistant program – her final requirement for graduation – when the stay-home order was issued in Ohio. McKinney was c...

Dear Kent State University Faculty, Staff and Students, Welcome to fall semester! We are so happy to have everyone back on our campuses and I hope you are as excited as I am. In this message I want to share some information with you about our strategy for reducing campus operations if we must do so. Many at the university have been working diligently for months to prepare for your safe return. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented numerous challenges, and we have met each one head-on while planning for future hurdles. Be assured that we have developed a solid plan to guide us through fa...

Julie A. Evey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychology at Kent State University Geauga, has been named Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire for 2020 by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).  MERLOT is an international initiative that enables faculty to integrate technology into higher education. This online community of faculty, staff, students, and institutions collaborate to increase the quantity of high-quality web-based, interactive teaching, and learning materials. The MERLOT website is a free gateway for web-based materials that can be incorporated int...

Most would agree that the main goal of science is to work toward better understanding by sorting out competing hypotheses to find the underlying theories. So, isn’t it ironic that the history of science is sometimes quite messy, for a variety of reasons? When you add decades of systemic oppression of women scientists to the mix, getting at the truth can become much harder.     John Tyndall, a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist, is generally credited with first discovering the Earth's natural greenhouse effect by measuring the absorption of heat by carbon dioxide and water vapor ...