CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy’s chapter, “Communication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,” is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively: Cases, Concepts and Practice, Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, editors, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Here is a link to reviews: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265516/Perspectives-in-Waging-Conflicts-Constructively-Cases-Concepts-and-Practice ...
CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled: "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,” Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0163-786X201538 Synopsis This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the cat...
Emerald Group Publishing of the UK is happy to announce Volume 38 of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Edited by Patrick G. Coy, Kent State University, USA Housed at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University, a long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research ...
If you are planning to attend the first round of the NCAA tournament’s South Regional, prepare to go the distance – literally. There are 2,397 miles between Kent State University and Sacramento, California where No. 14 Kent State University takes on No. 3 UCLA Friday night. There is also a world of difference in forecasts for game day. While Kent, Ohio is predicted to have a chance of snow with a high in the 40s, Sacramento is looking at a cloudy day with a high of 76-degrees. Here is how the Kent State Golden Flashes and the UCLA Bruins match-up, both on and off the court: Both teams sh...
Kent State University is competing with nearly 200 colleges and universities during RecycleMania through April 1, to promote recycling and prevent waste from going into landfills. RecycleMania is an eight-week competition during which colleges report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week. They are then ranked based on which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, which schools recycle the most per capita and which schools have the least amount of trash and recycling combined. In the last two years, Kent State was in the top 25 percen...
Applications for departmental scholarships and awards are due March 24th Friday. Information about each award can be found at- http://www.kent.edu/biology/awards-and-scholarships. If you have questions or to submit an application, please contact Joan Iacobacci at jiacobac@kent.edu The awardees will be notified two weeks before the ceremony. The award ceremony is scheduled for Monday, April 24th at 4:00 pm in Cunningham Hall - Room 013. Be sure to save the date in your calendars! Please return all applications, by Friday, March 24th, to Joan Iac...
Recently, a delegation from Xi'An International Studies University (XISU) in China led by President Wang Junzhe met with members of the Kent State faculty and staff to sign a partnership agreement between the two universities. Xi’An International Studies University provides an important strategic partnership for Kent State University. XISU is an excellent university located in the historically significant city of Xi’An and the partnership is expected flourish as XISU students are welcomed to KSU and as XISU becomes the newest study abroad destination for KSU students. At XI...
Messages of congratulations and displays of Kent State University pride flooded social media as the Kent State men’s basketball team captured the 2017 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Men's Basketball Tournament Championship title and was selected as a No. 14 seed to play the UCLA Bruins in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Kent State students, alumni, employees, community members and fans of the Golden Flashes celebrated the unexpected achievement of the men’s basketball team winning four straight games to become MAC Tournament Champions and advance to the 2017 NCAA Tournament. Congratulato...