Familiar Face Carla Owens Associate Director Career Exploration and Development Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I provide leadership for a team of career coaches to support the career development initiatives for Kent State students and alumni. In addition, as our liaison to the College of Education, Health and Human Services licensure track, I coordinate our highly successful Teacher Employment Day (formerly called Teacher Interview Day).  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: September 1995 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Hale Farm and Village, Mustard Seed Market...

Earlier this year, Kent State University’s Division of Information Services presented the university community with a new wireless network option. Eduroam, a worldwide system of wireless networks, allows faculty, staff and students to securely access the wireless networks at participating academic and research institutions. By logging in with Kent State credentials at any campus, a user has the ability to access the eduroam network, connecting him or her to networks of partner institutions. "Having the ability to log in to a secure network as if you were at your own university alleviates a ...

Kent State University’s Division of Student Affairs has partnered with the Jed Foundation Health Matters Campus Program, which is designed to help colleges and universities assess and enhance mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programming.   During the four-year partnership, the Jed Foundation will work closely with administration across the entire Kent State eight-campus system to evaluate and identify opportunities to help students become emotionally healthy before they reach the point of crisis. “As we review services and programs to meet the unique needs of ea...

Kent State University professors Catherine Wing and Darice Polo were two of 40 recipients honored by the Community Fellowship for Arts and Culture for art contributing to youth education and heightened awareness of the environment, community and place within Cuyahoga County. Wing, associate professor of English, plans to use the fellowship grant to work on writing new poems and revising old ones. “In my proposal itself, part of the idea was to take some time off so I would teach a little less and write a little more,” Wing says. “This fellowship helps prioritize my writing.” Wing will...

The Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that engage and enrich Akron through the arts.    Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders is a partnership between the Wick Poetry Center and the Visual Communication Design program at Kent State to facilitate a global conversation through the intimate and inclusive voice of poetry.  The grant will ...

Kent State University’s student-run television station TV2 was awarded the first place Pinnacle Award for Station of the Year at the 2015 College Media Association conference in Austin, Texas. TV2 also was awarded first place for best newscast and best sportscast and second place for special event coverage. This is the fourth year in a row for TV2’s placement, having been named Station of the Year in 2012 and 2013, and placing third in 2014. When sophomore broadcast journalism major Mitchell Felan, the student representative for TV2 at the conference, heard the news, he says he immediately c...

Catch a glimpse of the history of Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine and hear what alumni and current students have to say about the college.       ...

The Kent State University Women’s Center presented 12 female students with its Sage Project Award for overcoming barriers and finding balance in following their path and making their mark at Kent State. The Sage Project Award reception took place on March 11 in the Moulton Hall Ballroom. When a student first steps on a Kent State campus, the possibilities are endless: what classes to take, picking a major, joining a student organization, building lifelong friendships. But for many female-identifying students, there are hurdles to overcome and challenges to face. The Wome...

Students visit Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Last semester, four members of the nursing faculty at Kent State University at Salem, along with 15 nursing students, headed west for learning opportunities that cannot be taught in a typical classroom. The group traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southern South Dakota to interact with members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. The reservation is home to about 40,000 people, half of whom are members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. The average income for a resident of the reservation is between $2,600 and $3,500 a year, meaning that more ...