Christa Porter, Ph.D., associate dean for the Graduate College and Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs in EHHS, has been awarded the bronze Teaching Recognition Award in teaching and development from Kent State's Center for Teaching and Learning. The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional p...

A program of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative that offers design and build experiences for middle and high school students is in the spotlight for its new effort to expand racial and ethnic diversity in the design fields.  The program, Making Our Own Space (MOOS), which introduces youth to opportunities in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, was featured on WEWS Channel 5 news, highlighting the national arts grant the program recently received.   Since 2015, MOOS has been helping educate youth on design fun...

When Kent State student Franck Steve Guepjop Fotso was in high school in Cameroon, Africa, he and his family looked at colleges in the U.S. that had great engineering programs but found them to be quite expensive.  That all changed when Guepjop Fotso ran across information about Kent State’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering (CAE). The university had an impressive engineering curriculum, which catered to his career aspirations and had a robust program for international students, all at an affordable price that would fit into his family's budget.  Guepjop Fotso, now in ...

“Emotion can be fuel. It was fuel for my father in the movement,” said Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “Nonviolence really was a way to channel the anger, the hurt and the pain into something that could bring about a constructive outcome. That's one of the most important things my parents taught me.” Bernice King shared insights into racism in America today and her father’s legacy as keynote speaker of Kent State's annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. King’s visit to campus also kicked off the university's programming for its celebrat...