A Total Body Toning class will be offered every Monday in the summer semester, beginning June 27 from 12:15-1 p.m. at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. This class helps boost your metabolism by incorporating strength and cardio segments using equipment such as dumbbells, body bars and bands for a total body workout. Please register for each day you would like to attend. This program will take place in Studio I of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Membership is not required to attend, there is no cost to Kent State University employees, and all fitness levels are welco...
“Think outside the box,” “push the envelope,” and “get out of your comfort zone,” are just a few of the life-expanding experiences that Kent State encourages students to pursue during their enrollment. One special program, which the university offers to truly challenge students to see their world differently, is the International Village Experience (IVE). The International Village Experience is one of the university’s several residential living-learning programs. It is unique in that it offers an opportunity for local students to live, study and grow with others from around the world. By roomi...
What was scheduled to take four days to complete, Kent State University’s Flying Flashes finished in three. Carissa Marion, a Kent State flight instructor and graduate of the university and Jalia Manga, a flight technology major in Kent State’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, landed in Daytona Beach, Florida on Thursday, June 23, instead of the following day when the all-women, 2700 mile Air Race Classic officially ended. The competition is the oldest of its kind with roots that can be traced back to the 1929 Women’s Air Derby, in which Ameli...
A summer partnership with the Cleveland Orchestra continues, presenting some of the finest chamber music in Northeast Ohio The Kent/Blossom Music Festival, an advanced training institute for professional music training operated by Kent State University in cooperation with the Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom Music Center, celebrates its 49th season. The Kent/Blossom Music Festival offers a special and unique program with unparalleled excellence in chamber music, private instruction and a terrific working relationship with the Cleveland Orchestra. This year, the Kent/Blossom Music Festival ag...
Congratulations to the following faculty members who are receiving tenure: Kent, History, College of Arts and Sciences, Matthew Crawford Tuscarawas, Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Jean Engohang-Ndong Tuscarawas, Geology, College of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy Green Ashtabula, Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Bryan Jones Stark, English, College of Arts and Sciences, Stephen Neaderhiser East Liverpool, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Lydia Rose Stark, Mathematical Sciences, College of Arts and Scie...
Gary Hanson, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named the recipient of the 2016 Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education. The award is presented annually by the Electronic News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) to recognize significant and lasting contributions to the field in the areas of teaching, scholarship and service. Read more. ...
Familiar Face Ruth Pittman Administrative Secretary Office of Student Services, College of Nursing Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Assist advising staff and students with program application, progression and graduation tasks. I also monitor nursing student clinical compliance in accordance with our affiliation agreements with clinical agencies. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 2000 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Coleman Professional Services LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The staff, faculty and students are so friendly and helpful. I ...
New Face Daniel Diaz Nilsson Director, Academic Diversity Outreach and Development College of Education, Health and Human Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: To manage and maintain the day-to-day operations of the Office of Diversity Outreach and Development in the College of Education, Health and Human Services on the Kent Campus. We are charged with the recruitment and retention of first-generation, underrepresented and minority students to Kent State University. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: October 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The Universit...
Kent State University has named Nathan Ritchey, Ph.D., as its new vice president for Kent State System Integration. Ritchey was selected following a national search. He currently serves at Edinboro University as vice president for strategic initiatives and founding dean of the College of Science and Health Professions. He joins Kent State on July 1. As vice president for Kent State System Integration, which is a newly created position, Ritchey will be the senior officer responsible for the oversight of the university’s seven Regional Campuses. He will report to the senior vice president...
Kent State University's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon has announced that Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Ph.D., has been selected as associate provost for academic affairs, effective June 1, 2016. Munro-Stasiuk has served as interim associate provost since July 1, 2015, where she leads a number of university-level initiatives. These include development of a "one-stop" shop for student services; design and implementation of diversifying the faculty search process search committee training (in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusio...