Global Competitiveness

  • Expansion of Wifi with Eduroam
    • Information Services recently partnered with Eduroam, allowing faculty, staff, and students to easily get online wirelessly at other partner institutions using their Kent State University credentials; additionally, guests from partner institutions can easily get onto Kent State University's wifi in the same manner.
  • Bangladesh Research and Education Network
    • Participated in an international partnership with the Department of Computer Science and the Ohio Academic Resource Network (OARnet) group in a grant to support the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN).  This partnership supplies organizational experience and resources to assist BdREN with construction and expansion of their public nationwide network, purposely built for Higher Educational Institutions.  Areas of expertise and bes practices included: technical design, management, and operation of large scale cyber/academic resources.