J. Leigh Garcia's Print Titled My Sister's Tortillas

  School of Art Assistant Professor of Print Media and Photography, J. Leigh Garcia, received the 2023 SGCI Emerging Printmaker Award on September 25, 2022. The SGCI Emerging Printmaker Award is given to early-career artists who exhibit outstanding potential in their field of printmaking and excellence in their own creative work. Nominations must be SGCI members and must be accepted by the SGCI Awards Committee. The SGCI Awards Committee selects three finalists with a final vote from the SGCI membership. The recipient is invited to attend the annual conference and is presented w...

Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics Entries

Exhibit focuses on former faculty, notable alums, and a juried selection of alumni from the 70-year history of the ceramics program at Kent State University KENT, Ohio – The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University are pleased to announce a new exhibit, Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics, featuring work from current and former faculty, notable alums, and a juried selection of works from an alum call for entries juried by noted artists Matt Wedel and April D. Felipe. Artists includein the exhibition: Miska Petersham, John Gill, Kirk ...

College of Education, Health and Human Services

Kayon Hall

Kayon Hall, assistant professor of Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs in the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration, was awarded a $1,000 grant from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Foundation in support of her study, “Black But Also Undocumented/DACAmented: Examining Anti-blackness in Higher Education." Scholars have demonstrated that marginalized communities have a wealth of knowledge to improve policies and practices. Hall believes the same is true for undocu/DACAmented Black collegians as they recount their experiences with anti-blackness ...

First-Gen Week 2022

Kent State University will celebrate its first-generation students this week with a series of events and programs to spotlight and encourage current students who will be the first in their families to earn a bachelor’s degree.  The purpose of the week is to increase campus awareness and engagement of first-generation students, as well as staff and faculty who were first-generation, and to promote resources, programs and services that support first-generation student success.  In addition to recognizing students, the university will celebrate staff, faculty and advocates for th...

Division of University Communications and Marketing

Hi, Drupalites, We hope you are enjoying this fall weather. We are sharing important updates about the Drupal 9 (D9) project. Our Division of Information Technology's web presence group and the Division of University Communications and Marketing's web team continue to work toward ensuring the best possible website quality when Drupal 9 arrives. We know it won’t be pixel-perfect, but the teams are working to deliver a solution with minimal issues – and one that doesn’t require our webmasters to rebuild their websites. As we recently communicated, the D9 launch date had been delayed. Th...

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