Workshops
Update: This Fashion Focus has been canceled.
Six Fashion School Faculty share their latest projects and research in six minutes! Presenting will be Margarita Benitez, Gargi Bhaduri, Elena Brebenel, Chanjuan Chen, Tameka Ellington, and Catherine Leslie.
Join Director Sarah J. Rogers and Curator Dr. Sara Hume as they time travel from the 1890s to today, highlighting the fashion trends and the social activism of the NCJW over the decades.
For tickets and more information: http://www.wizevents.com/register/register_begin.php?id=7104
History Professor Dr. Molly Sergi will lead a lunch and learn discussion about the events leading up to May 4, 1970, with shooting survivor Roseann “Chic” Canfora, students, staff, faculty, and community members. Chic Canfora, a student on campus on May 4, survived the KSU shootings by taking cover behind a parked car. A stalwart advocate for remembrance, she is dedicated to connecting the lessons of the anti-war movement to the movements of today.
A great preceptor can make all the difference in your clinical experience. Every year, great preceptors are nominated for and receive The Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award.
The Award
In 2007, Kent State University College of Nursing Advisory Chair, Barbara Donaho, forged the idea that clinical partnerships between Kent State University and area hospitals with which the university is partnered should receive substantial recognition.
She recognized that clinical unit leaders, prefects and nurses take the time to work diligently to train our nursing students, while receiving no additional compensation for their services. It is in this spirit that the Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award was created.
The majority of recipients are RNs who have served in a variety of capacities: as staff nurses, nurse managers, clinical coordinators, and advanced practice nurses, in addition to MDs. They are nominated by both Kent State University students and faculty members for providing effective leadership, demonstrating compassionate role modeling and offering sound professional mentoring.
Recipients of The Barbara Donaho Distinguished Leadership in Learning Award are a select group who have greatly enhanced and contributed to the quality of care provided by the next generation of professional nurses.
About Barbara A. Donaho
A long-time friend of Kent State University and the College of Nursing, Barbara A. Donaho has spent more than 55 years dedicating her life’s work to the advancement of the nursing profession as an educator, lecturer, director of nursing and senior vice president of patient services. Her vast career has spanned the Midwest and both eastern and southern coasts. Most recently, she was president and CEO of St. Anthony’s Health Care Center in St. Petersburg, FL, where she is currently president emeritus.
Born and raised in Ohio, Barbara holds nursing degrees from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, as well as degrees in Nursing Education and Administration from the University of Chicago, and an honorary doctorate of law from Kent State University. She is a graduate of Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurses and held the distinction of being the only nurse member of the American Hospital Association Board of Directors, which in turn honored her with the Trustees Award.
She is a former commissioner of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and was named distinguished alumna of the year at Johns Hopkins, later being appointed to serve on its board of trustees.
Dear BSN students graduating in August 2025,
Your Convocation (pinning) ceremony will be held on Friday, August 8, in the Cartwright Hall auditorium. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. Limited guest registration will be available. Graduating seniors will receive informative emails, including links to order their nursing pin and to register to attend the ceremony, starting in May 2025 from nursingevents@kent.edu.
If you have questions about your pin order, please contact: Jim Coleman, Ltd.Phone: 847-963-8100 or email: sheryl@jimcolemanltd.com. All students will be pinned with a ribbon regardless of whether they ordered a pin or not.
This Summer 2025 BSN Convocation will be livestreamed for loved ones who are unable to join us in person. The livestream link will be emailed to all registered graduating students in the days leading up to the event.
If you have any questions about your Summer 2025 BSN Convocation (Pinning) Ceremony, please email nursingevents@kent.edu with the subject line: Summer 25 BSN Convocation.
The Cleveland Chamber Choir will join with Kent’s Theodore Roosevelt High School ChoralWorks in We March On! Music of Social Justice, a free concert commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings. The program takes place at the Kent United Church of Christ on Saturday, March 7, at 7:30pm. We will present music that illumines injustice in the world and memorializes those who are working to make the world a better place. Works featured include Joel Thompson’s shocking The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed and music by British and American composers Ethyl Smyth (Songs of Sunrise), Linda Kachelmeier (Each of Us), and Catherine Dalton (I know a Woman, a nod to the Rosa Parks story).
The Chamber Choir will also premiere a new commission by Natsumi Osborn (Oberlin College). For her piece Legacy, Osborn was deeply inspired by the poem of the same name by Megan Neville-Jellen, which draws moving imagery from the Pulitzer Prize-winning iconic photo of Mary Ann Vecchio screaming over the body of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller. A portion of the free-will donations will go towards Women For Women Ohio, in honor and memory of their founder Helen Tremaine Gregory, who also co-founded the Kent Choral Society. Women for Women Ohio is a non-profit focused on supporting the education of girls in Cambodia. Come experience the collective power of this amazing poetry and music sung by the world-class voices of the Cleveland Chamber Choir.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. SEE NOTE ON HOME PAGE ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19),
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. This award-winning documentary by Daniel Miller will be shown from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. followed by a discussion lead by Chic Canfora from 7:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
A panel of Geauga County community members who were a part of the events of May 4, will share their stories with Assistant Professor of English, Dr. Bonnie Shaker as moderator. Appetizers will be provided.
The annual silent vigil begins at midnight and continues until noon on May 4, 2020. Volunteers have held vigil each year since 1971 at the four Prentice Hall parking lot locations where Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder were shot. Sign-ups to stand vigil will begin in March.
A Second Moon. Photographs by Ben Brody. Curated by Moema Furtado, an Installation Artist and Independent Curator.
Ben Brody is an independent photographer, educator, and picture editor working on long-form projects related to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their aftermath.
His first book, Attention Servicemember, published by Red Hook Editions and designed by Kummer & Herrman, has been shortlisted for the Aperture - Paris Photo First Book Award
