David & Janet Dix Alumni Profile

Distinguished Service to EHHS Award

David Dix: Publisher, Record Publishing LLC

Janet Dix: Psychologist, Western Reserve Psychological Associates

David and Janet Dix have been supporters with their time as volunteers and gifts of the Read Center for International and Intercultural Education for more than a decade. Janet has a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the College of Education and is in private practice in Summit County. David, who holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Akron is a former trustee of Kent State University and the retired publisher of the Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier and several Summit County weekly newspapers, all of which were part of a group of newspapers and radio stations called Dix Communications.

They believe in the global mission of Kent State University’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. The couple has two children, Chris, employed in data technology in Virginia, and Tim, employed in television production in California.