We are thrilled to announce two new faculty hires in the School of Fashion. Dr. Laura McAndrews will join us as associate professor and Robert Pettys-Baker as assistant professor beginning in Fall 2024.Laura McAndrews received her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Missouri. Before returning to academia, she worked for nine years in the fashion industry in product development, design, and research and development for Ralph Lauren, The Gap and Anthropologie. She also received her A.A.S. in fashion design from Parson's School of Design and B.S. in fashion merchandising from Kansas State Unive...

Congratulations to EHHS doctoral student Paris Lampkins, currently in the Interprofessional Leadership program, was included in Crain's Cleveland "Top 40 Under 40" 2023 issue.Lampkins was recently appointed to director of learning and development at The Albert M. Higley Co., a Cleveland-based construction contractor. Read the full story.--Photo courtesy Crain's Cleveland...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, at Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative at 1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200, in Cleveland to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in The Cleveland Foundation Conference Room at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.On Ma...