The LGBTQ Student Center is hosting its annual Rainbow Run this year on September 21, 2018 at 7pm in Risman Plaza. Formerly known as That Gay 5K, the Rainbow Run is a fun 5k where participants can run, walk, and roll their way to the finish line! The event started 3 years ago when former intern, Blake Kinsel, saw the financial challenges a lot of LGBTQ+ students face and wanted to create a sustainable fundraiser for the Center’s Emergency Fund. He researched and planned a color run, which had 100 people register and 50 people actively participate. The second year the glow run that continues to...
On Monday, Aug. 6, Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and Kent State University signed a shared services agreement that will enable NEOMED to offer online degree programs in its College of Graduate Studies. Under the agreement, Kent State will provide technology and support services, including infrastructure, instructional design, video hosting and delivery, as well as a course management system for NEOMED’s online courses and programs. NEOMED will maintain responsibility for all academic, administrative and financial services for those online programs, including courses, content...
Faculty, staff, students and visitors to Kent State University will no longer have to deal with orange barrels, detours, and traffic delays on Summit Street. After more than two years of construction, the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of fall classes. Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume in the construction area on Aug. 15, weather permitting. The project, which was managed by the City of Kent, began in the spring of 2016 and made improvements to a one-mile...
Kent State University President Beverly J. Warren will be among the featured lecturers during the Chautauqua Institution’s weeklong investigation of “The Forgotten: History and Memory in the 21st Century,” which runs through Aug. 18. President Warren will speak at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Chautauqua Amphitheater on the institution grounds. Kent State’s global family of alumni, scholars, students and friends are invited to visit the Kent State May 4 50 Years Commemoration page to watch the speech live and to join in this opportunity to reflect and share l...
A new roundabout, at the intersection of Campus Center Drive and Risman Drive, has multiple lanes and HAWK Beacons. ...
Steven R. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Evaluation and Measurement, presented “Subjectivity in the Social Sciences” at the 13th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Granada, Spain, on July 27, 2018. Summary: Subjectivity is ubiquitous and implies perspectives that range in scope from the intrapersonal (as in individual musings and daydreams) to the intercultural (as in communication between and among identities) and in sophistication from the inchoate babblings of infants to the theoretical pronouncements of philosophers and mathematicians. Q methodology i...
Steven R. Brown, Professor Emeritus, Evaluation and Measurement, authored “Autobiography and Problem Selection” in Operant Subjectivity, Vol. 39, Issue 1-2 (2017) 82-97. Summary: The proposition that “participants pursue values through institutions utilizing resources” finds expression in the problems with which participants become concerned and which they choose to address, and these choices in turn are a function of prior life experiences as revealed in policy-related autobiographies. As part of a pedagogical exercise focused on the policy process, university students in a senio...
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Familiar Face Faith Sheaffer-Polen Outreach Program Director Corporate University Stark Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: hink of us as a match-making service for corporate education. Our team meets with hundreds of employers during the year and listens to challenges and needs of their organization and of their work team. We have a database of trainers and facilitators we then “match” to the needs of the company and create a training plan for them. After making the introduction, we manage the relationship, which we hope is for the lifetime of the company! Another popular service we prov...
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New Face Theresa Yogi Coordinator, Admissions and Scholarships Honors College Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Coordinating admissions and scholarships for the Honors College and serving as an Honors College advisor WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2018 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I previously served as the director of undergraduate programs for the University of Akron’s College of Engineering. I coordinated their recruitment, admissions, scholarships, student organizations and often advised incoming freshmen regarding majors. Prior to my time at t...