On April 8, around 3:15 p.m., Northeast Ohio will experience a total solar eclipse, where the moon will completely cover the sun and reveal the corona, the sun’s atmosphere. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, this will be the first total eclipse in Ohio since 1806, and the next is predicted for 2099. You could say this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the area. Alex Clevinger, doctoral student and teaching assistant in Kent State University’s Department of Physics, is most excited about the optical illusion that will occur during the total eclipse. &...
Graduate Certificate
Disability Studies and Community Inclusion - Graduate Certificate
The Disability Studies and Community Inclusion graduate certificate prepares students to be leaders in promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life and across the lifespan. The focus is to understand the nature, meaning, health, social and political implications and consequences of disability within the context of a diverse and global world.
Doctoral Program
Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations
Graduates of the Ph.D. program will have the knowledge, critical understandings and interpretive skills to analyze and assess educational policies, theories and practice, and to lead and promote innovation in education, whether in academia or private, public, formal, nonformal or informal settings social contexts, and agencies.
Master's Programs
M.A. in Cultural Foundations
Explore education in its social and cultural contexts through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Students in the M.A. degree write a thesis on an educational topic of their own choosing. Thesis students work closely with their academic supervisor to generate a thesis topic and design a research study or undertake a scholarly analysis of an issue of interest to the student.
Optional Tours While In Florence
Kent State has curated a modest list of optional tours for conference attendees. Tours are listed below:
“525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?” These lyrics will fill the E. Turner Stump Theatre this weekend as the run of “Rent” finishes up on Sun, Feb. 25. Amy Fritsche, associate professor of acting and musical theater and director of “Rent” for Kent State, walked alongside students performing in the show from start to finish to ensure their first performance of the Spring semester was a hit. For Fritsche and the School of Theater and Dance, choosing the pieces they will perform starts with the students, to verify the pieces they choose will fulfill the require...
Disability Studies and Community Inclusion - Minor
Minor in Disability Studies and Community Inclusion
The Disability Studies and Community Inclusion minor prepares students to be leaders in promoting greater inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life and across the lifespan. The minor enhances a student's career by preparing them to understand the nature of disabilities, meaning of disability in our society, social, political and health implications of disability, and methods of making our society more inclusive to those who live with disabilities.
Student Research
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