Beginning in the fall of 1968, the Office of Minority Affairs was created within the Human Relations Center to serve as a liaison with and provide consultative and special services to minority groups, students, and organizations. The overall goal of the Office of Minority Affairs was for the students they served to realize their full educational potential as noted by Dr. Wilson in April of 1970. The first person to head the office was Donald Thigpen, a political science student who also served as the co-chairman of Black United Students. Thigpen would graduate that December and continue as the...
Everyone plays a role in keeping Kent State University safe. Community members must increase peer support, safely disengage someone from an unhealthy situation, and positively influence others to act. Promoting bystander actions, building healthy relationships, and encouraging open communication make a difference. By challenging harmful behaviors, we can change the culture and redefine the norms.
Reclaiming your voice as a survivor and a bystander addresses the common feeling of helplessness. After recognizing the signs of violence comes the need to respond, but barriers can exist that bar individuals from intervening. Whether it’s understanding one’s hesitation in intervening or simply not knowing what to do or say, realizing these barriers and reclaiming your voice will create positive change. Kent State is committed to educating all students to realize what’s holding them back and empower them to take action.
Kent State University is committed to the prevention of sexual violence within our community. Recognizing potential issues is the first step to changing the culture. All members of the community will learn the warning signs of potential harm and identify behaviors that can lead to sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and more. Everyone must be aware of the university policy on gender/sexual harassment and options for reporting and support services.
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Landon Hancock of Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to the Republic of Korea in Peace Studies. Dr. Hancock will lecture and collaborate at Kyung Hee’s award-winning Graduate Institute of Peace Studies as a part of his project, “Building Bridges for Peace”, designed to increase collaboration and build bridges between Kent State and other peace studies programs worldwide. Dr. Hancock ...
The School of Peace and Conflict Studies is proud to announce the publication of Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy, edited by SPCS Associate Professor Landon Hancock and Christopher Mitchell, Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. This volume, their third in the Zones of Peace series examines questions of why many peacebuilding efforts are hampered by their inability to gain the support of those they are trying to help at the local level. Chapters examine peacebuilding efforts in Colombia, Northern Ireland, Kashmir, Mexico, Nepal, Mexico, Sudan...