Get Involved

There are many ways for students to become involved in sustainability on campus. Various on and off campus resouces are available.  There are many student groups and various events on campus.  Additionally, many faculty members across Kent State’s colleges and schools incorporate sustainability into their courses.

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Dec. 7. The Board is scheduled to convene at 11:30 a.m. in Franklin Hall, Room 213. Franklin Hall is located at 550 Hilltop Drive in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-9 a.m. in Room 213 to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  Board committees will meet as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 9-10 a.m. in Room 213. Audit and Compliance Committee – 9-10 a.m. in Room 214. External Relations ...

Our Career Partners

Career Exploration and Development works in partnership with faculty & staff, parents, families, and employers. In addition to meeting with us, other career partners across Kent State University's eight campus system are here to support our students' career needs.

Marianne Martens, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, published a guest post titled “Media Mentorship, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Screen Time Symposium” on Oct. 10, 2016, on the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC) blog.  ...

Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is author of an article titled “Students’ Viewpoint: What Constitutes Presence in an Online Classroom?” published in Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly. (Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/01639374.2016.1241972) ...

Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, authored an article titled “Increasing EHR System Usability Through Standards: Conformance Criteria in the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model” in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 69; 2016, 169-173. ...

Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is co-author (with Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University) of an article titled “Document Phenomenology: A Framework for Holistic Analysis,” published in the Journal of Documentation (2016), 72:6 , 1114-1133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2016-0007 ...

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, and alumna Julaine Clunis, M.L.I.S. ’16, are co-authors (with J. Kawalec, B. Caldwell, D. Putnam) of a poster titled “EHR Preparedness Among New Podiatric Residents: National Survey of Podiatric Residency Directors,” presented to the American Podiatric Medical Association, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2016. ...

Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, served on a panel (with I. Vamanu, T. Gorichinaz, and A. Suorsa) titled "Phenomenology in Library and Information Science: Studying Information Experiences" at the Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) in June 2016 in Uppsala, Sweden. ...

Christopher Dum, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, was recently featured on NPR's Marketplace, speaking with Kai Ryssdal about his new book. Web link:  www.marketplace.org/2016/11/02/world/what-happens-when-motel-becomes-home Dum is an expert on homelessness and motel life. His research is driven by a desire to explore the lived experience of those who have been pushed to margins of society by various social forces, such as inequality and the criminal justice system. He received a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University at Albany in 2014, an M.S. in justice and pub...

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