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Dr. Christa Porter, an assistant professor in Higher Education Administration, is a recipient of the 2018 American College Personnel Association (ACPA) College Student Educators International Emerging Professional award.  Each year, the ACPA honors five emerging professionals at a dinner fostering discussion of professional issues. The dinner is based on a tradition established by Professor Philip A. Trip and Ursula Delworth, creating an opportunity for junior colleagues to participate in an intellectual debate.  Porter won the award for her contributions to higher education. S...

You will find Kent State University driving the region’s economy in nearly every sector of industry. From FedEx to Medical Mutual to Sherwin-Williams and the Cleveland Indians, our graduates are making dynamic impact and shaping lasting contributions across Northeast Ohio.  Every day, Kent State and its graduates – including 109,000 alumni living in Ohio – are improving the quality of life for this region, and in the process, they are churning billions annually into the economy. Those are the findings of a newly released report by EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young), ...

Feb. 24: Valerie Kelly is interim associate VP of of the Office of Continuing and Distance Education. She is also an adjunct instructor in the User Experience Design degree program at Kent State University.   Learn more about the Office of Continuing and Distance Education Listen to the Elevations interview:       ...

As the United States entered WWII, trailblazing women like Bea McPherson, BS ’43, took on the task of providing essential handmade maps for the war effort—and charted the course for today’s women mapmakers. By Jan Senn Bea (Shaheen) McPherson, BS ’43, remembers many things about her long, eventful life. Like where she was at Kent State on December 7, 1941. Just seven days before her 20th birthday, she was listening to the radio while sitting on the porch swing of the off-campus house she lived at on Lincoln St., when she heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  The event that led...

From Long Island to Kent State University and now Ghost Island. That’s the path Kent State University alumnus Jacob Derwin took to become a cast member on the 36th season of the CBS show Survivor, which will begin airing Feb. 28. This season’s show is called Survivor: Ghost Island. Long before the show’s challenges began, the 2016 Kent State graduate overcame his own obstacles for a chance to win a million dollars and the coveted title of “Sole Survivor.” “The show first aired when I was four, and I started watching it with my family,” says Mr. Derwin who grew up on Long Island. “...

Watch highlights from the event announcing Kent State and Akron Public Schools' new academic partnership.   ...

What a fantastic time to be part of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE) here at Kent State! We are uniquely positioned to be leaders in addressing some of the most challenging issues we are facing as a nation and as a people. Our rich history, our commitment to excellence, our passion for innovation, and our dedication to local and global communities, makes this College a place I am proud to call home. Our passionate students, industry partners, and dedicated faculty and staff transform lives – here and abroad. Who would not want to be a part of that? The challenges we are all ...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored Polynesian Oral Traditions: Indigenous Texts and English Translations from Anuta, Solomon Islands, 1st ed., Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, (2018) 1-294.   Summary: This book was first published by Oxford University Press in 1998. It has been taken over by the Kent State University Press and published in a paperback edition.   Anuta, a small Polynesian community in the eastern Solomon Islands, has had minimal contact with outside cultural forces. Even at the start of the 21st century, it remains one of...

Veronica Cook-Euell, supplier diversity manager, is the recipient of the National Association of Educational Procurement, (NAEP) Professional Perspective Award. This award is given to the author(s) who contributed the highest-rated and most well-received article from the past year’s issues of the Educational Procurement Journal. Ms. Cook-Euell’s winning article “10 Steps to Successful Advocacy in Supplier Diversity” was featured in the journal’s spring 2017 issue. ...