Information Session on October 22 The College Credit Plus program is designed to allow college-ready students, grades 7-12 who qualify for college admission, the opportunity to earn high school and college credit. College Credit Plus can include courses offered on a college campus, online, or at the high school for which credit is awarded from the college. Students seeking admission into the College Credit Plus program must demonstrate college readiness by meeting Kent State’s remediation-free standards. Kent State University at Stark determines college readiness by using ACT or SAT...
David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center, and Mindy Farmer, director of the May 4 Visitors Center lead a writing and discussion workshop on overcoming trauma through creative writing. The workshop took place in the May Prentice House and approximately 20 community members attended. ...
Admit it. We have all used our smartphones at inappropriate and inopportune times: while driving, during family meals, in the bathroom or even the bedroom. We are a society glued to our phones, but when is it considered out of our control? According to researchers at Kent State University, the answer depends on the user. Jian Li, Ph.D., Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., and Andrew Lepp, Ph.D., all from Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, surveyed 516 college students. They asked the students about daily smartphone use, including inappropriate times such as in class, while...
Organizing prescription medications in a traditional pill dispenser is not effective enough when patients are taking up to 20 different drugs seven to nine times a day. Not taking the medication at the right time or taking too much results in 700,000 emergency room visits a year, 325,000 hospitalizations and 125,000 deaths. “It’s a trillion dollar problem to deal with medication nonadherence,” said Joel Hughes, Kent State associate psychology professor and director of the Applied Psychology Center at Kent State University. “A lot of people can be helped if we can get a vast majo...
Kent State University is proud to participate in Campus Sustainability Month throughout October.
Game Day Challenge: Stadium Waste Reduction & Recycling Competition
Game Day Challenge is a national competition between colleges and universities to promote waste reduction and recycling at home football and basketball games. Schools track and report waste and recycling data that is used for Game Day Challenge.
Here’s your chance to get off the sidelines and into the game: get your team ready for the first-ever powderpuff football tournament to be held on the Kent State Salem Campus, Friday, Nov. 6. Sponsored by the Student Government Association, the first game begins at 10 a.m. Teams will play two 20-minute halves, with single elimination. Games will be played rain or shine! Prizes will be awarded to the first-place team. ALL students, faculty and staff are encouraged to join in on the fun (including females) – as players, coaches or cheerleaders. The cost is $5 per player or coach, and each ...
A Kent State University study, commissioned by WKYC-TV (the NBC affiliate in Cleveland owned by TEGNA), found that 58 percent of registered voters would support allowing adults in Ohio to legally possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use. The results are plus-or-minus 4 percent and offer a glimpse into what Ohio voters are weighing with Issues 2 and 3, both on the Nov. 3 ballot. Issue 2 would prohibit using the Ohio Constitution to grant a monopoly, oligopoly or cartel for their exclusive financial benefit or to establish a preferential tax status, while Issue 3 would legalize mar...