Helping others help students. With his experience helping our Kent State students, Student Support Services Director Adam Cinderich, who currently serves as President of the Ohio TRIO Educational Opportunity Association (EOA) Board of Directors was selected as a mentor for the TRIO Works SSS Directors Group continuing a commitment to provide access to higher education.
Outside of his work guiding Kent State students to success within Student Support Services, Jim Piascik serves as Treasurer of Ohio TRIO, currently serving his second term after being re-elected to the position. Ohio TRIO is a professional organization of TRIO professionals from across the state of Ohio.
Pamela Jones, Academic Program Coordinator for Academic Diversity Outreach maintains her commitment to college students beyond Academic Diversity Outreach, serving on the Training and Best Practices committee for the Consortium of Coaching in Higher Education.
As a result of helping students make the shift to accessing academic success resources remotely during the pandemic, Amanda Shah, Rachel Cordy, Samantha Spitak, and DeAnn Zalom published a manuscript, “Leading through change: Four perspectives, one team,” in TLAR’s special September edition Rising to the Challenge: Navigating COVID-19 in Higher Education Learning Centers.
Kent State University International students can benefit from the expertise of Career Advisor Krittika Grau, who has recently published a book review of International Encounters: Higher Education and the International Student Experience.
Students have lots of questions about interview questions. Julie Paskiet is helping them and as a result published “How to Answer Common Interview Questions” in the 2020 American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) Job Search Handbook.
First-Generation, Low-Income, and Underrepresented Students have on-campus advocates through Dr. Liz Piatt and Dr. Eboni Pringle. The duo published The Role of Science Identity Salience in Graduate School Enrollment for First-Generation, Low-income, Underrepresented Students in the Journal of Negro Education with two additional authors.
Kent Campus is not the only place Assistant Dean Liz Piatt excels in her work. Liz has recently published with Dr. Akbar (former UC Assistant Dean), a chapter titled, Learning and Coping: The (Mis)Education of Lip Gallagher in the book, Shameless Sociology: Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series as well as publishing “The Segregated Gun: Racism and Representations of the Gun in Film.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (formerly Palgrave Communications)” with two other additional authors.
Students can enjoy Community Engaged Learning coordinated by Imani Reynolds, who co-authored and published an article entitled: “How do North American child and youth workers view cultural diversity?” in the CYC Advocate.
Dedication to academic success and racial equity for students at Kent Campus and beyond. Dr. N.J. Akbar, former Assistant Dean, recently had three book chapters accepted for publication. His chapter, Discussing Student Achievement and the Family in V. Seeburg’s Black American Students’ Achievement in the Suburbs: Academic Success through Family Engagement is expected to be published in December 2021. In May/April 2021, his two chapters of A Race-Conscious Pedagogy Future: Essays that Forge a New Path for Equitable Schools will be published, titled Fixing the System, Not the Student or Family: Dismantling Racism and Institutionalizing Equity by Leveraging Your Board’s Leadership and Underresourced, Underfunded, and COVID: Schools seeking Racial Equity during a Pandemic.
