IMPACT Solutions is Kent State University’s employee assistance program that offers a comprehensive list of services and solutions to employees. All full- and part-time employees are eligible for IMPACT Solutions services, including many qualifying family members, such as parents and parents-in-law. Here are some ways to quickly bring yourself up to speed on all the resources available to you and your family through Impact: Join us for our live Webinar: Take a Tour of IMPACT Solutions on Jan. 19 from 10-11 a.m. Registration is required. Upon attending the webinar a...
Minute Clinic is a division of CVS Health, the largest pharmacy healthcare provider in the United States. They have 1,100 locations and offer convenient, high-quality care for common family illnesses. CVS Minute Clinics offer a reduced office visit co-pay to Kent State University members for $10. The practitioners can evaluate, diagnose and treat a variety of minor illnesses and injuries, including bronchitis, flu, strep throat, bladder infections, minor burns and cuts, insect stings and more. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, Kent State’s members can visit any participating clinic for a $10 co-...
David Anderson, founder and president of the BridgeLeader Network, to serve as keynote speaker Kent State University will hold its 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. This year’s theme is “Testament of Hope: Past, Present and Future of Diversity.” The keynote speaker for the event is David Anderson, D.Phil. He is founder and president of the BridgeLeader Network (BLN), one of the world’s leading authorities on building bridges across the deep divides of race, faith, culture and wealth. Anderson’s work has brought hope...
For more than 100 years, the National Park Service has preserved and cared for our national parks and shared their stories with more than 275 million visitors every year. As the service enters its second century, it is striving to tell a more inclusive and diverse story of American history. One of those stories now includes the Kent State University May 4 Site, which the U.S. Secretary of the Interior announced has reached the designation as a National Historic Landmark on January 11, 2017. “I am pleased that the federal government made this designation,” said Dean Kahler, survivor of...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the designation of the Kent State University May 4 Site as a National Historic Landmark. The site joins more than 2,500 historic places that bear the national distinction. “As we approach the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, this recognition compels us to fully claim our status as a global resource and convener of the world’s most critical conversations on peace and conflict resolution,” said Kent State President Beverly Warren. “We are indebted to the team whose tireless commitment resulted in a successful National Histor...
Please join us for the annual Neuroscience Symposium on Sex Differences in the Brain. Registration is now open for the KSU 5th Annual Neuroscience Symposium. April 6th-7th! https://www.kent.edu/neuroscience ...
As a community resource officer for Kent State University Police Services, Tricia Knoles has seen, heard and experienced it all - the good and the bad. Over time, the wide range of stressors on the job can take its toll. Although the consequences may not be immediately recognized, they do accumulate throughout an officer’s career. “We are so used to helping people and giving to other people, we are not taking care of ourselves like we should be,” Knoles said. &nbs...
