This month's Take and Make is a winter themed Snowman Decoration! Pick up your kit starting Monday, December 5 from the Center of Student Involvement (room 227 of the Student Center). A tutorial will be posted on Wednesday, December 7! 75 kits available. Make sure to register in KSU Engage.
Looking for something to fill your time between studying for finals and packing to go home for the holidays? Here are a few events you can enjoy while you’re still on campus and one you can look forward to when you get back. Warm Winter Wishes Postcard Event: Nov. 30, 2022 Show your loved ones that you care this holiday season with a handwritten postcard. Parents and Families Engagement is hosting a postcard writing event. Send winter wishes home to your family and friends in a festive way before winter break. Postage will be included while supplies last. Visit the Kent State ...
Thanks to a $75,000 grant from OSHA’s Susan Harwood Training Grants Program, Kent State University at Geauga is designing a pilot training program for workers from small businesses in underserved rural communities to help ensure safe and healthy workplaces. As part of the campus’ ongoing commitment to leadership in regional workforce development, the program will be implemented in Geauga County starting in the second quarter of 2023. Lance Williams, Director of Operations and Special Projects at Kent State Geauga, co-wrote the successful grant application with Associate Professor of B...
The bustling staircase was especially memorable and so were the places to eat, meet and study. And someone loved the place so much that they had their wedding reception there. As students, faculty and staff gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kent Student Center, alumni, who read about the milestone on social media, took time to reminisce about the fun and fond memories they made at the facility. The Kent Student Center opened as the University Center in January 1973. At the time of its opening, the facility had the distinction of being the largest st...
A war reenactor, a history enthusiast and a 35 years veteran educator. However, the most important thing for Bradley Keefer, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Kent State University at Ashtabula, is the connections he makes with his students, leading him to earn the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA). The DTA is sponsored by the Kent State University Alumni Association and is the highest teaching award a tenured or tenure-track professor can receive. “It validates what I've always felt was important, and that's teaching undergraduates, getting through to people and h...
The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 11:15 a.m. in Room 306 of the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board of Trustees will be taken at this business meeting. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in the Alumni Suite, which is located on the third fl...
Congratulations to Tricia Niesz, professor and FLA program coordinator; and Christina Collins, FLA part-time faculty, for being winners of the 2022 Equity, Identity and Success Recognition Week. Equity, Identity, & Success Recognition week is an opportunity to honor faculty and staff who are contributing to an affirming & welcoming community at Kent State. These individuals promote inclusion and student success for populations served by the Equity, Identity, & Success (EIS) pillar of the Division of Student Affairs. The Equity, Identity, an...
In this season of celebration and giving thanks, Salem native Lori Singer-Bare is grateful for being in the right place at the right time, again. Singer-Bare is finishing her first semester as a lecturer in the criminology and justice studies program at Kent State University at Trumbull and as an instructor at Kent State's Police Academy. After graduating from Hiram College in 2009, Singer-Bare enlisted in the United States Army. Over the last 13 years on active duty, she has served as a military police officer, drill sergeant, and special operations sergeant. In addition, sh...
Webinar: Sport, Politics, Peace, and Development - Monday, November 28, 2022 We invite you to a series of zoom seminars on Sport, Politics, Peace and Development. The seminars will all take place on November 28th and are designed to overlap with the early stages of the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar. They will take place the day before a group stage soccer match between the USA and Iran. The event is co-sponsored by the School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University (KSU), the School of Media and Journalism at KSU, the Geral...
Cross-listing is a Canvas feature that allows instructors to combine multiple course section of enrollments into a single course. Cross-listing can be helpful for faculty who teach multiple sections of the same course and only want to manage course data in one location.
