In April, Kent State University will participate in the On the Move Challenge, a new 12-week national corporate competition. This competition is like no other in that the points you earn as an individual will get your team (Kent State University) one step closer to designation as one of the Most Active Workplaces in the country! Each week, employees will have an opportunity to learn more about the benefits of physical activity, assess themselves and their progress, share successes and goals with other participants, boost peers for bonus points and, of course, move! Kent St...
Yes, Kent State University employees can get discounted tickets through the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Mega Star Ticket Program. Using the link and special promo code below, employees can purchase adult general admission tickets at the discounted rate of $17.75 (regularly $23.50)! Visit www.rockhall.com and click on “buy tickets” in the upper right corner of the page. Enter promo code Mega1 at checkout. Please direct any questions or concerns directly to Lydia Puccini at lpuccini@rockhall.org. For more employee discounts, visit www.kent.edu/bas/emp...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 9. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B, first level of Aloft Cleveland Downtown, located at 1111 West 10th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session/working lunch from noon-1:15 p.m. in the Tactic Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whole – 9-10:45 a.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B. Academic Excellence and Student Suc...
John Quiñones of ABC’s “Primetime” and Sonia Manzano of “Sesame Street” to serve as speakers Hundreds of guests from a broad range of institutions and organizations across Ohio will converge on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, for the 20th annual State of the State: Equity, Opportunity and Diversity in Ohio conference on Thursday, March 17. The daylong event, themed “Understanding Our Past, Embracing Our Future: The Intersections of Identity and Change,” will be held in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The event will bring together professionals from the public, private, ...
Are you concerned about your body image? Do you worry about your eating behaviors? Communication studies assistant professor Dr. Jihyun Kim and an international research team dove into why college female students tend to have negative views about their body image and how it relates to health practices. “We wanted to explore this area because college is a time when women really pay attention to their look,” Kim said. The researchers’ findings were recently published in Health Care for Women International in a study titled, “Exploring cultural differences in women’s body weight perce...
Kent State University’s College of Business Administration will host its sixth annual Spirit of Women in Business Conference, titled “Navigating and Negotiating” on March 9 at the Kent Student Center. The conference has sold out the past three years, bringing together women from diverse professional backgrounds. Last year, more than 300 business professionals, along with undergraduate and graduate students from Northeast Ohio and beyond, attended the event. The daylong conference will be emceed by Vivian Goodman from WKSU, and includes a 60-minute keynote speech and Q&A by Deborah Kolb, ...
The Fashion School at Kent State University is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the Kent State Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening. Previous inductees include Estée Lauder, Elsa Klensch, Allen Questrom, Michael Weiss, Ralph Rucci, Oscar de la Renta, Leonardo Ferragamo and Dana Buchman. Attendees of the Annual Fashion Show’s Sponsor/VIP Show held the evening of Saturday, April 30, will have the opportunity to meet Natori durin...
Watch parties with finger-friendly foods, like piping hot pizza, crunchy potato chips, spicy chicken wings and a plethora of dips, are staples of college basketball in the spring. Fortunately, there are ways to slim down some of your favorite March Madness meals without sacrificing taste. In this cooking demo, to be held March 15 from noon-1 p.m. in Heer Hall, Room 107, you will learn easy ways to prepare healthy and delicious versions of popular appetizers. These crowd-pleasing recipes will let you enjoy the game and the food minus the guilt. Our Be Well dietician and team members wil...
Kent State University employees are eligible to apply for the Aflac Cancer Care insurance policy. In the U.S., men have slightly less than a 50 percent lifetime risk of developing cancer. American women have slightly more than a 33 percent lifetime risk of developing cancer.1 Chances are you know someone who has been affected, directly or indirectly, by cancer. You may also know the physical, emotional and financial toll it can take on people and families. The Aflac Cancer Care insurance policy pays cash benefits upon initial diagnosis of a covered cancer, with a variety of other bene...
Kent State University has earned its eighth consecutive recognition from Tree Campus USA, a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Heather White, grounds manager at University Facilities Management at Kent State, says the grounds department is proud of the continued recognition, as it shows the university’s dedication to the community’s green infrastructure. “We recognize that we are one of the first impressions of campus for prospec...