Students in the Viticulture and Enology programs will participate in wine making from start to finish. Kent State University at Ashtabula is partnering with Laurello Vineyards to expand the educational opportunities for students in its wine degree programs, crafting a distinctive experience in which students participate in all aspects of grape-growing and wine-making. The unique, blended learning culminates in the production of a new “Kent State Ashtabula” labeled wine. The first two wines, a Riesling and a Cabernet blend, will be released in December 2017. Under the new agreemen...
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Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Adapting Digital Collection Interface for Special Collections and Archives Collections and Improving Workflow” at the Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting 2017 in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30, 2017. Summary: This paper addresses a recent project at Kent State University to adapt the interface of Special Collections and Archives Digital Collections to better reflect textual archival content. As our project team discovered, some of these changes also improved ingestion workflows and the quality of the opti...
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Familiar Face Marlo Nighman Clerical Coordinator Residence Services - Tri-Towers Area Desk Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I supervise a large number of student workers at the Tri-Towers Area Desk. I coordinate workflow and schedules, train and instruct student employees on proper procedures and policies. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: November 2011 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Legal secretary at Weimer & Associates in Green, Ohio LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The opportunity to grow personally and professionally, engaging with students and...
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New Face James C. Hannon Dean College of Education, Health and Human Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Dean of the college WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: West Virginia University and University of Utah LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The beauty of the campus, friendly people, positive momentum and energy for the future ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The university is well respected and there is tremendous opportunity for continued growth and innovation. RESIDES IN: Hud...
All full-time, benefits-eligible employees may earn up to $300 as part of the Wellness Your Way rewards program. Wellness Your Way awards program points for participating in preventive healthcare and other healthy lifestyle activities. The wellness portal, provided by Be Well Solutions, is now updated and available with Wellness Your Way resources for 2018. For full-time, benefits-eligible employees who have not already done so, you may use the portal to sign up for your annual “Know Your Numbers” screening. Employees also may sign up for telephonic or face-to-face health coaching...
On Monday, November 13, 2017, the Kent State College of Arts and Sciences and Office of Global Education hosted the MISSION: LIFE VI international innovation competition, focused on bringing together interdisciplinary teams to address major world problems. The Kent State team, whose idea focused on diverting food waste from the landfill stream and converting it into electricity, won the “People’s Choice” award, after over 300 people visited the three exhibits and voted for their favorite. This year’s teams concentrated on Global Sustainable Development in the 21 st Century. The event, which...
Four Kent State University TRIO programs aimed at helping underrepresented student — the McNair Scholars Program and three Upward Bound programs — recently received federal grants that will fund them for the next five years. The programs are hosted through Kent State, though each has different audiences and objectives. The McNair Scholars Program, housed in University College, selects 27 students who are first-generation college students, underrepresented or who come from designated income families. In this program, students are put on track to go to graduate school and, ultimately, achi...
Kent State University faculty, staff and students can honor their best interns, intern supervisors, college advisors or internship programs by nominating them online for the 2018 Expys Best Internship Awards by Dec. 31. Since 2011, the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) and Contempo have presented the Expys, NOCHE’s annual awards program recognizing and celebrating Northeast Ohio’s internship and experiential learning ecosystem. Kent State’s Career Exploration and Development office is promoting this nomination period broadly across the university, as an opportunity to en...