College of Communication & Information
Communication is an essential component to resolving conflict, and in Associate Lecturer Aaron Bacue Maguire’s Communication and Conflict class, students study how conflict is perceived based on families, relationship history, media representation and more. In a recent activity, students illustrated their own interpretation of conflict by creating illustrative and written metaphors. Several students shared their work. Sophomore communication studies major Caleb Wilton’s drawing represents communication in a relationship with a significant other: one partner who communicates too much ...
KENT, Ohio – Mario J. Gabelli, Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL). and LICT Corp., as well as Executive Chairman of Associated Capital Group, Inc., is the featured speaker for the Kent State Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship’s Spring 2023 ASPIRE Entrepreneurial Workshop Series. During the event, Gabelli and radio personality Thomas Kelly will engage in a moderated discussion with an introduction by Ambassador Edward F. Crawford. The event will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 12 in the Kent State Student Center KIVA. The event is f...
When it comes to our collective understanding of the Northeast Ohio region, some Kent State University faculty in the Department of History feel that professional historians have too often ignored or marginalized Ohio and the Great Lakes region as a whole. To address that, Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) and Kent State have announced a cooperation agreement enabling unique access and real-world experiences for students and faculty in the Department of History. “The partnership between WRHS and the Department of History has numerous benefits, but one of the most important is bol...
Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time
Kent State student photojournalist Lafayette Tolliver (BS '71) documented Black campus life, from 1967-1971. The exhibit provides viewers an array of subjects he documented and includes selected editorials he wrote in the Daily Kent Stater. The goal is to generate interest in and further exploration of this amazing body of work that Tolliver has shared with Kent State and the world.
Photographs in the Tolliver archive are fully digitized and available for viewing online. See our Feature Page for more information: https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/exhibits/show/tolliver
How do I report time for an employee that was unable to report to work due to inclement weather, even though the campus was not closed?
Inclement weather conditions may cause an employee to arrive to work late, be absent or leave work early. 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). University leave policy governs the reporting and recording of work absences.