How do I report time for an essential employee that was scheduled to work and called off during a closing or delay?
Essential employees that call off must utilize compensatory time or vacation time for their regular hours for the day.
How do I report time for a nonessential employee (classified, hourly, full-time, part-time, temporary) that was scheduled to work but did not because of a closing?
Employees must be paid for their scheduled hours. Employees or their supervisors should record the number of scheduled hours into the university's timekeeping system as “University Closure.”
How do I know when the university is re-opening after a closing?
When there is a university closing on the Kent Campus, it will re-open the following day at 6 a.m. When there is a closing at a Regional Campus or other Kent State location, the re-open time will be determined by the dean or chief executive officer of the location.
The official closing of any campus will be determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the circumstance and the time of day when the closing is announced.
The Washington Program in National Issues (WPNI) is more than your average internship program. Each spring, a cohort of roughly 20 Kent State juniors and seniors heads to Washington, D.C., to participate in a variety of internships. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply, from journalism to mathematics. WPNI helps students secure internships in a variety of areas including government agencies, nonprofits or news organizations, among others. While completing this internship, students also partake in a public policy seminar with WPNI Program Director Mark Cassell, Ph.D. Through b...
College of Education Health and Human Studies alumnus Mike Daniels, Ph.D., Higher Education, and director of Kent State's E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center, recently received a national dissertation of the year award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Foundation. Dr. Daniels’ dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study on undergraduate Black men and how they develop their leader identity. The result of this study was a substantive theory and model on the leader identity development process of Black men. NASPA is a member...
Kent City Manager Dave Ruller remembers well the day in late 2006 when he met Kent State University’s then-President Lester A. Lefton at the Franklin Square Deli to talk about downtown Kent. “It was the famous turkey sandwich lunch meeting,” he recalled. Lefton, known for his no-nonsense, sometimes gruff manner, didn’t mince his words, Ruller said. He pointed to whole blocks of downtown and pronounced them “a piece of crap.” Ruller said Lefton, who served from 2006 to 2014, made it clear that he wanted Kent State to be a great university and could not do tha...
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There are three ways to learn about any delays, class cancellations or campus closings:
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- In the event that there is inclement weather but Kent campus is not closed, employees should always use sound personal judgments regarding the safety of their travel when deciding whether or not to report to work. Employees should notify their supervisors if they are unable to report to work or feel it necessary to leave early. Any absence must be recorded in the form of leave (vacation, personal, or comp time).
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“Are you a math person?” That’s a question Dana Miller-Cotto, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Kent State's Department of Psychological Sciences, asked at the beginning of her presentation at the recent Research & Innovation Forum, sponsored by the university's Science of Learning Education (SOLE) Center and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP). She acknowledged that some people feel very strongly about math, and some may even feel anxiety about it. Miller-Cotto also asked how people feel about being “a math person” – or not. She asked forum attendee...