Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Kent State Employee Resource Groups are pleased to announce their inaugural ERG Summit: Connect Across Campuses. Join virtually on Thursday, Oct. 20 from noon to 2 p.m. to learn more about each Employee Resource Group, their plans for the year, advocacy achievements and more. Click here to join the event via Microsoft Teams. About the ERGs: Consistent with Kent State University’s mission, goals and vision to better our society through meaningful voice, the Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) foster a culture of respect, kindness and purpose. The ERGs are strategic partners with t...
College of the Arts
Songs by The Go-Go's Based on 'The Arcadia' by Sir Philip Sidney Conceived and Original Book by Jeff Whitty Adapted by James Magruder DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY AMY FRITSCHE Kent State University’s School of Theater and Dance is continuing is 2022-2023 season with the production of "Head Over Heels" running November 4 through November 13. Following the 16th century prose romance of Sir Phillip Sidney, King Basiliu and his family deal with the dangerous prophecies of the new Oracle, Pythio. After being warned the kingdom is losing it’s beat, the family sets o...
Suicide is on the rise, especially among people of college age. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in four adults ages 18-24 contemplated suicide in June 2020. Additionally, The National College Health Assessment completed in 2021 revealed that nearly 75% of students surveyed nationwide experienced psychological distress. “Certainly, the pandemic heavily impacted mental health, especially for young adults,” says Valerie Rutherford MSW, LISW-S, Counseling Specialist at Kent State University’s Geauga Campus. “The number of students being seen by myself and o...
The year is 2122, Saturn's high-tech galactic space force is threatening to obliterate the Earth with icy projectiles. The United States Space Force isn't afraid, this is what the 2022 DART test has prepared us for. The Saturnians are defeated by a barrage of tiny defense missiles that send the projectiles back where they came from. The Saturnians flee into the farther reaches of the Milky Way and the USSF has saved all of humankind. That is one possible future use of the knowledge learned from the DART test: defending the Earth from aliens. Though there is currently no proof...
The late Kirk Mangus was an art professor at Kent State University renowned for his ceramic art, sculpture, drawings, paintings and murals. Mangus served as head of ceramics at Kent State from 1985 until his passing in 2013. He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four Ohio Arts Council fellowships, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship and a McKnight fellowship residency at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, according to The Nevica Project. He also won multiple awards for his work, one including the NCECA Purchase Award for their Permanent...
Near the building site of Crawford Hall, which will be the new home of the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, a furry campus resident is busily digging his winter burrow. Groundhogs hibernate over winter, so once this burrow is finished, this groundhog will enter a dormant state in late fall and not emerge until late winter or early spring - probably weeks after "Groundhog Day." ...
Kent State University student Maya McDaniel began her collegiate journey at age 14. Now a 17-year-old senior, she is set to graduate with a degree in game design and a minor in computer science and also set to become one of the youngest students to receive a bachelor’s degree from the university. A native of Kent, McDaniel was featured on WEWS News 5 Cleveland for this accomplishment. At 13, she took a college entrance exam. “I wanted to take the ACT for fun just to see where we were at,” McDaniel told the TV reporter. “I almost passed the first time, and we were like wait a sec...
Kent State University College of Nursing student Ashlee Frymier has been selected as Big Sister of the Year by Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Summit, Medina and Stark Counties. The award is particularly exceptional because Frymier has only volunteered with the organization for a year. Having such a new volunteer win the award is unusual, said Kyle Putinski, executive director of the organization that pairs at-risk youth with volunteers who spend time with them as friends and mentors. Frymier, of Cuyahoga Falls, graduated with her nursing degree from Kent State in 2009, and ...
After Kent State alumna Morgan Dawson, BS ‘20, started her career in the construction field, she realized that women in the industry did not have the appropriate clothing for the job. If Dawson wore jeans, they were too tight. If she wore boy's construction pants, they didn’t fit her body. Something had to be done. Dawson took it upon herself to create Dawson Workwear, a line of pants made specifically for women in construction. The line of classic work pants launched in July 2022, and she is already planning to launch a fire-resistant line of pants next month. ...