Hashtags, stories, tweets, posts, DMs, mentions, tags, locations, boomerangs, content calendars, Hootsuite, strategic plans, handles, superzoom videos, graphics, Google Drive (and I’m probably missing a few). This is my life at Kent State in a nutshell.  You can read my full bio, but in short, I started at Kent State 5+ years ago as their first full-time employee focused solely on social media. Up until February 2014, our social media presence consisted of maintaining our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Foursquare accounts and it had been managed by committee. Flash forward 5...

A three-day trip is underway for Kent State University students to work with community leaders on finding new and creative ways to connect neighborhoods throughout Erie to its Bayfront, according to YourErie.com The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) is the combined home of the urban design graduate program at Kent State and the public service activities of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.  In partnership with Project Gateway, an effort to connect neighborhoods in Erie with the waterfront, CUDC students will be assigned background research including exi...

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, says there is a stressful expectation for black women in corporate America to financially provide for their family. “Many grew up as the golden child, so their family looks to them to take care of everything,” Neal-Barnett said in an interview with O, The Oprah Magazine. “Even in childhood and adolescence, many Black women were placed in a caregiving role. Once they get into the workforce, especially if they have the ‘fancy’ job like attorney or doctor, it’s expected that they will step up.” Neal-Barnett descr...

The launch of the new Rising Scholars program at Kent State University at Ashtabula received a big boost recently with a $100,000 donation from the Ashtabula Foundation as part of the organization’s longstanding mission of bettering Ashtabula County, in part through education.  The donation is the first gift into establishing an endowment that will fund and support Rising Scholars in Ashtabula.  The program welcomes its first cohort of students this semester.   The primary focus of the Rising Scholars Program is to support the success of a select group of students who have...

Some educators struggle with bridging the gap between theory and application, so students get bored, lose interest, and tune out. Not so in Mahli Mechenbier's classes. This Senior Lecturer in English at the Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg describes her teaching style as “immersive — not hypothetical.” It’s also dynamic. Students soon discover that they can apply their English skills to every other class and workplace. Some even find themselves attending conferences or becoming published co-writers with their instructor.       Mechenbier stirs curiosity and creati...

Three changes that will be impacting the Drupal web editor environment. The user interface look and feel has been changed. A survey has been activated to capture your feedback to allow for additional enhancements. Please take a few moments to complete the survey. The way you access your editing buttons when adding or editing content has also changed. Previously, the editing buttons displayed at the top of the page under your group name. Now, to activate those options, you will click the oval, blue "Open Utilities" button to the right of your page. After clicking that button the pr...