Title IX and Sexual Violence Prevention for Employees (BC 1.0hr)

This course covers such crucial topics as the prevalence of these crimes on campus, why people perpetrate them, federal requirements for campuses, the power of primary prevention, sexual harassment and sexual discrimination, how to be an active bystander, Title IX and what it means, reporting obligations, trauma- informed response, campus policies and resources, and more.

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A.L.i.C.E. (BC 1.5hrs)

Public Safety, in partnership with the Division of People, Culture and Belonging, is conducting A.L.i.C.E. workshops. The 90-minute-long A.L.i.C.E. sessions are designed to give participants insight and response options when encountering an active shooter. ALiCE: Alert, Lockdown, Information, Counter and Evacuation is crisis training created by two Texas law enforcement officers.

As a result of A.L.i.C.E., you will:

Peggy Shadduck, Ph.D., vice president for Regional Campuses and dean of the College of Applied and Technical Studies at Kent State

Peggy Shadduck, Ph.D., vice president for Regional Campuses and dean of the College of Applied and Technical Studies at Kent State University, serves as the senior officer responsible for overall leadership of the Kent State Regional Campus system. She oversees the operations of the seven Regional Campuses and the College of Applied and Technical Studies, promotes student enrollment and academic success and is responsible for expanding the visibility, influence and effectiveness of Kent State as a catalyst for regional development. Learn more about Shadduck’s job, experience and personal life ...

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IT Manager at Kent State University at Trumbull, Frank Lindsay, was recently featured on WFMJ Youngstown to share his advice on Zoom privacy and security. WFMJ did a follow-up story on an incident occurring at a Warren City Council Meeting held on Zoom, where an unanticipated guest logged in and began yelling racial slurs at the council members. Lindsay offers advice to readers on how to prevent this from happening and what the best Zoom practices are. Lindsay recommends turning your waiting rooms on so that you can only let specific people in the room. Lindsay also suggested requiring a...

J. Leigh Garcia in front of her public art mural in Cleveland

J. Leigh Garcia, assistant professor of print media and photography, was recently commissioned to create a public art project in Cleveland. The piece Garcia contributed called "My Sister's Tortillas" is a 376” x 121.5” digital print of a work originally made with corn husk, handmade washi paper, screenprint, cast paper, digital output, illustration board. "My grandmother and her sisters spent a lot of time in their kitchen in Monterrey, Mexico grinding corn by hand with a metate to prepare masa for handmade tortillas. Two generations later, my sister and I purchase pre-packaged tortillas at t...

Image showing models related to research on Chirality

Chirality, or the absence of mirror symmetry in a molecule, is a complex topic that Kent State University’s Material Sciences Professor Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., is determined to know more about.  Hegmann, director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, and other Kent State collaborators led an international collaborative research project with contributions from a global team. Their paper “Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer: Nanoshapes in nematic,” based on their research was recently published in the high impact jour...

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