Jennifer Kulics, M.A. '98, Ph.D. '06

Jennifer Kulics, Ph.D., currently serves as assistant vice president for philanthropy, with a focus on student success initiatives, including student affairs, diversity initiatives and intercollegiate athletics. She leads a team of fundraisers that is focused on student success priorities across all colleges, campuses and degree programs.

In her 20-year career at Kent State, Jen has held various leadership roles in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and served as the student ombuds, dean of students and, most recently, as associate vice president in the Division of Student Affairs. In that position, she assisted the vice president in the leadership and administration of the division, strategic fundraising and health, wellness and accessibility initiatives. 

During her Athletics tenure, Jen helped secure multiple major gifts in support of the department’s academic support programs and scholarship diversity efforts. As associate vice president of Student Affairs, she oversaw the division’s major gift officers as well as the development of fundraising priorities for departments that included Recreational Services, Kent State of Wellness, and the Center for Adult and Veteran Services.

Jen is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Education, Health and Human Services and the recipient of the 2018-19 Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs Alumni Award, which recognizes one’s lifetime achievement within higher education.

After completing her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, where she was a Division I student-athlete (women’s basketball and softball), Jen went on to earn her Master of Arts in Exercise Physiology and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration, both from Kent State University.