The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University has opened a new exhibition, the Biennial Faculty Show. The show features the work of full-time, part-time and emeritus (honored retiree) School of Art faculty. “This is the premier school of art in Ohio now,” said Anderson Turner, director of art galleries at Kent State University. “It’s also the leading place where you can get a terminal degree in studio art in Northeast Ohio.” The exhibit, presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council, is as unique as the faculty who produced it, in part because it displays work f...
The Wick Poetry Center is utterly delighted to announce that Cornelius Eady has selected Arlene Keizer’s manuscript, “Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black” as the winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Dr. Keizer will read together on the Kent State University campus Cornelius Eady in the fall of 2023. Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean-American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual art of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing...
John "Jack" Graham December 7, 2022 in Memoriam John R. Graham passed away on December 5, 2022 at the age of 82. Jack, as he was known to all, was one of the pre-eminent figures in personality assessment. He was a longtime SPA member who embraced all assessment procedures, provided they were empirically supported. Jack always hued closely to the data and conveyed those values to his students and the attendees of his workshops. His monumental achievements were recognized by SPA in 2015 when he received the society’s Bruno Klopfer Award, honoring his lifetime of active and im...
Workshop: Teaching Strategies in the Age of AI
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A Kent State University program is helping business owners retire by providing them succession plans to ease the transition in their companies. Recently featured in The Business Journal Daily, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center was created in 1995 to help business owners understand where to begin with succession plans. “Statistics show only about 25% of business owners have a succession plan,” Michael Palmieri, the project coordinator at the center, told the journal. “Yet business owners are growing older and baby boomers own nearly half of small businesses.” The center provides ...
Singer-songwriter David Crosby, who performed the iconic "Ohio" with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young following the events at Kent State of May 4, 1970, passed away at the age of 81. The song grew quickly across the globe after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine, during an anti-war protest on the Kent Campus. Crosby was scheduled to perform in Kent as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, but the pandemic canceled all of the planned events.Crosby visited Kent State in 2017 and toured the May 4 Visitors Center ...
After a week on the road, the Kent State men's basketball team (15-3) is back in the MACC hosting the Ball State Cardinals (13-5). Tip-off is set for 6:30 p.m. this Friday, Jan. 20 and is live on CBS Sports Network. ...