Kent State University’s Career Exploration and Development is excited to announce that Handshake will replace Flash @ Work as the new career management platform, which offers new features that will enable students to: Apply for on-campus student employment positions. Access personalized career and internship recommendations based on major and interests. Register for career fairs and other events. Manage on-campus interviews and connect with top companies. Current and future student employee supervisors will now use Handshake to post student employment position...
Beginning in the fall of 1968, the Office of Minority Affairs was created within the Human Relations Center to serve as a liaison with and provide consultative and special services to minority groups, students, and organizations. The overall goal of the Office of Minority Affairs was for the students they served to realize their full educational potential as noted by Dr. Wilson in April of 1970. The first person to head the office was Donald Thigpen, a political science student who also served as the co-chairman of Black United Students. Thigpen would graduate that December and continue as the...
We all play a role in keeping Kent State University safe. Develop and/or increase peer support. Learn how to safely disengage someone from an unhealthy relationship. Positively influence others in the development of a healthy relationship. Provide support and recommend resources for healing. Get involved in university prevention and awareness activities and encourage others to do the same. Be an effective agent of change.
Imagine being ill for several years. Doctors cannot concretely diagnose the problem despite several tests. Then suddenly, one day after what seems to be hundreds of appointments, an urgent call from the doctor instructs you to go straight to the emergency room. For Rebecca Urycki, senior secretary in Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ advising office, this was her story. During the 20 years of vague diagnoses and no definitive answers, Ms. Urycki made it a point to get routine physical checkups each year, including end of year 2014. “The week before my physical, I h...
Students have an overarching reach with other students. Reinforce the need to make sexual and relationship violence prevention a priority within the university community. Communicate the need for healthy relationships and that it is easily understood. Recognize potential violent and/or dangerous situations and know when to intervene without putting yourself in danger. Communicate and recognize risk factors that influence behavior. Know who to contact for help and support.
Paige Barnum, Brian Cochran, Ryan Dowling, Parker Henderson, Samantha Kenney, Hannah Miller and Kayla Norris who attend the Kent, Salem and Stark campuses of Kent State University were among 24 Northeast Ohio nursing students accepted to intern at Akron Children’s Hospital as part of the Assuring Success with a Commitment to Enhance Nurse Diversity (ASCEND) program. In its fourth year, the ASCEND program works with traditionally underrepresented populations within the nursing profession, such as minority groups or first-generation college students. During their summer internship, which be...
WKSU was honored by the Press Club of Cleveland with nine Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards at a ceremony on June 1 at the House of Blues in downtown Cleveland. The station won five first-place awards and the best-in-show award for Best Newscast, which WKSU staff has received in four of the past five years. Award entries were judged by a panel of journalism professionals from press clubs and news publications across the country. WKSU winners of 2018 Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Press Club of Cleveland are: Best in Show – Radio Newscast, Major Mar...
Kent State University is committed to the prevention of sexual violence within our university community. Learn about the signs that could lead to a sexual assault, the definition of consent, warning signs of unhealthy and abusive relationships and what stalking looks like. Recognize the behaviors that are not okay. Understand campus policy on gender/sexual harassment and know your rights. Communication, education and knowledge is key to preventing sexual violence.
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Landon Hancock of Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to the Republic of Korea in Peace Studies. Dr. Hancock will lecture and collaborate at Kyung Hee’s award-winning Graduate Institute of Peace Studies as a part of his project, “Building Bridges for Peace”, designed to increase collaboration and build bridges between Kent State and other peace studies programs worldwide. Dr. Hancock ...
The School of Peace and Conflict Studies is proud to announce the publication of Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy, edited by SPCS Associate Professor Landon Hancock and Christopher Mitchell, Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. This volume, their third in the Zones of Peace series examines questions of why many peacebuilding efforts are hampered by their inability to gain the support of those they are trying to help at the local level. Chapters examine peacebuilding efforts in Colombia, Northern Ireland, Kashmir, Mexico, Nepal, Mexico, Sudan...