Black History Month is a time to honor and celebrate the accomplishments, contributions and rich legacy of Black Americans in the U.S. Its roots date back to 1926, when Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, established Negro History Week, celebrated during the second week of February.    The first observance of Black History Month took place at Kent State in 1970, thanks to the Black United Students organization (BUS). BUS had advocated, with the support of campus educators, that the entire month of February be commem...

Michael Daniels, Ph.D., '22, director of Kent State's E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center, recently received a national dissertation of the year award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Foundation. Daniels’ dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study on undergraduate Black men and how they develop their leader identity. The result of this study was a substantive theory and model on the leader identity development process of Black men. The Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award encourages high-quality re...

Over the winter break, SPCS assistant professor Dr. Sara Koopman led a Peacebuilding in Colombia Collaborative course that was a powerful and transformative experience for students that participated. As KentWired explains: "The program included five days spent in the Amazon jungle and 10 days in Colombia, with a focus on reconciliation between people and nature after the Colombian conflict." Read more at: https://kentwired.com/92612/latest-updates/students-return-from-faculty-led-program-to-the-amazon-colombia/   ...