Kent State University Board of Trustees approved establishing a unified student government across all campuses – Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Kent, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas – during its March 9, 2016, board meeting.Each campus’ Undergraduate Student Government is recognized as the representative voice of the students’ interests, concerns and needs. Elected presidents from each campus will serve as the liaison between the student body, Undergraduate Student Government and university administration.The Board’s vote reflects university core values to create a collaborative comm...

Five communication studies majors will participate at the upcoming Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 15 between 1 - 5 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Megan Carassco and Rachel Morrell are completing their honors theses this semester and will have poster presentations at the symposium. The symposium is an opportunity for undergraduate students to share the results of a topic they explored in-depth with the entire Kent State community. Carrasco has been researching the topic of "how millennial women are discursively constructed online." Dr. Suzy D'Enbeau, an assistant pro...

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School of Communication Studies associate professor, Mei-Chen Lin has been a Golden Flash since 2003. Lin teaches courses for both undergraduate and graduate students, including foundations of communication, relational communication, intercultural communication and international communication. Lin loves getting her students involved in rewarding class projects that will benefit them in and outside of the classroom. In previous semesters of her intercultural communication class, Lin has assigned some projects to help directly immerse her students into intercultural communication. She paired ...

Kara Taylor, a senior applied communication major, is interning with the School of Visual Communication Design this spring. As one of their marketing interns, Taylor is responsible for covering VCD events and writing content for the school’s social media platforms, alumni magazine and alumni website. “I get to do a wide-range of things at work,” Taylor said. “I really enjoy working in the Art Building, too. It’s a great atmosphere to be in.” Before working with VDC, Taylor worked as a reporting intern for the Record Courier, Portage County’s newspaper and the Chautauqua Institution, a no...

The School of Communication Studies is looking to hire a student marketing and PR assistant for the Fall 2016 semester to assist with and provide marketing and public relations support for the school. The student must be taking undergraduate classes in a communication, marketing or public relations related field. The pay for this on-campus opportunity is $10/hour with 10-12 hours per week. General Duties: Write press releases and articles Design and produce marketing materials (newsletters, brochures, fliers, bulletin boards, etc.) Write website content; manage social media networ...

Save the date! The School of Communication Studies will host its annual Centennial Award Celebration on Friday, Sept. 30. Kent State University recently announced that this year’s Homecoming celebration will be held on the weekend of Oct. 1; coinciding with the Centennial Award Celebration. We hope to see you for this wonderful opportunity to network and connect with former classmates. Keep checking the website for more details on the reception’s time and location.   ...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 9. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B, first level of Aloft Cleveland Downtown, located at 1111 West 10th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session/working lunch from noon-1:15 p.m. in the Tactic Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”  Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whole – 9-10:45 a.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B. Academic Excellence and Student Suc...

Are you concerned about your body image? Do you worry about your eating behaviors? Communication studies assistant professor Dr. Jihyun Kim and an international research team dove into why college female students tend to have negative views about their body image and how it relates to health practices. “We wanted to explore this area because college is a time when women really pay attention to their look,” Kim said.  The researchers’ findings were recently published in Health Care for Women International in a study titled, “Exploring cultural differences in women’s body weight perce...

Kent State University’s College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled “Navigating and Negotiating” on March 9 at the Kent Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...