The evaluation process is occurring from March 21 through May 30, 2016. The following steps will allow you to complete a self-evaluation: Go to your evaluation homepage at https://videsktop.kent.edu/viEvalHomepage/login.aspx A login box will appear. You will be prompted to enter your kent.edu email address and password in the login box. This password is not synced to FlashLine. It is an independent password that each employee created. If this is your first time logging into the evaluation site, please refer to this training aid. If you need to recover the password you establis...

Familiar Face Alice Kopunovitz Administrative Assistant School of Communication Studies Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Manage all personnel matters, which include coordinating searches, hiring part-time, term, and tenure and non-tenure track faculty; and monitoring and assisting faculty and the director with reappointment, tenure, and promotion policies and procedures. I am also the graduate program assistant, working with the graduate coordinator to run reports and manage the details from a student’s initial application inquiry, graduate assistantship hiring, and all forms and pro...

New Face Robert Day Jr. Athletic Academic Counselor Intercollegiate Athletics Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Help in guiding student-athletes toward developing academic and graduation plans, monitoring their academic progress and helping them develop holistically. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Minnesota, Indiana University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The beautiful campus (especially the black squirrels) ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: The college town atmosp...

Work in Progress: Working on pile caps and grade beams.  Plan to start column line 17 (Southern most column line) next week. Started working on forming elevator #2 (South). Pouring elevator #1 second lift (North) today. Continuing the installation of the basement concrete retaining wall along column line 'A' between A7 and A10. Currently 45% complete with pile caps. Looking forward: Complete auger cast piles on column line 0 (North). Steel erector mobilization to start on 3/28/2016. Steel bearing clips will begin on 3/28/2016 on concrete retaining walls. Pour ...

Work in Progress: First floor restroom and offices duct layout is complete with HVAC piping and duct installation has begun. Room 101 & 104 electrical rough-in is at 90% complete. Machine Shop electric panel installed and completed on Saturday 3/19. Room 223 electrical floor boxes are complete. Currently core drilling for drains and water lines throughout the building. Currently framing the 3rd floor restrooms and research lab. Looking Forward: Complete rough-in of all walls in 101, 104 and machine shop.  Complete inspections of all trades prior to gypsum wa...

Work in Progress: Steam piping in the 3rd floor east mechanical room is 20% complete. Steam condensate lines for the steam station and AHU#1 are in progress. Started installation of piping and duct work from AHU#2 in the 3rd floor west mechanical room to the addition has begun. Tie-in from AHU#1 to AHU#4 is in progress now that abatement is complete. GMP C3 1st and 2nd floor ceiling tile removal is completed. Looking Ahead: Unit #2 shutdown schedule for 3/30 & 3/31 to make the tie-in for the duct work to the new addition. Make final connections to coils and insta...

Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device applications and other industrial opportunities.  The publication is the result of close collaboration between Li’s team and his long-term collaborator Timothy J. Bunning, Ph.D., chief scientist of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Oh...

Beginning April 4, Kent State University will participate in the On the Move Challenge, a new 12-week, national corporate competition. This competition is like no other, in that the points you earn as an individual will get your team (Kent State) one step closer to a designation as one of the most active employers in the country! Each week, employees will have an opportunity to learn more about the benefits of physical activity, assess themselves and their progress, share successes and goals with other participants, boost peers for bonus point...

Bradley A. Bielski, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State Tuscarawas, believes student clubs, organizations and athletics enhance the collegiate experience. With that goal, he is leading an initiative to dramatically expand the athletic programs offered by the campus, as well as reinstituting choir and band as credit courses. “Researching the interest levels for these programs has been an important part of the process,” Bielski says. “We have developed and distributed student and community interest surveys for sports and music. We also have met with community band ...