Fourteen Kent State University students participated in an eight-day, education-abroad trip to Greece sponsored by the university’s School of Theatre and Dance during spring break. The program, described as an experience of “Theatre, Performance, Gender and Sexuality,” was led by faculty members Daniel Nadon and Yuko Kurahashi. In many ways, the eight days spent in Greece was a trip back in time. The study group visited numerous ancient Greek sites associated with the theatre, including the Acropolis, Delphi, the Theatre Dionysus and the outdoor theatre of Epidaurus, which is a...
Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative has received the 2017 Great Places Award in the Place Planning category from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). The EDRA Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design and pay special attention to the relationship between physical form of the built environment and human activity or experience. Each year, the association honors work in four categories: Place Design, Place Planning, Place Research and Book Award. The 2017 Place Planning Award specifically rec...
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The incorporation of innovative student resources is a priority at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. The most recent initiative is the Video2Go Studio, a collaboration between Library Director Cherie Bronkar and Educational Technology Designer Jason Ruegsegger. Located in the Academic Learning Commons, the Video2Go Studio is a state-of-the-art system designed to allow anyone to create a video quickly and easily. “I’m extremely excited about the new possibilities the Video2Go studio offers our students,” Ruegsegger says. “With the Video2Go studio, someone with no video experience can w...
Grab the sunscreen and camera. It’s summer vacation season again, and e-Inside wants to feature some of your best vacation or staycation photos, including selfies. Submit your favorite vacation or staycation photos and a brief description to einside@kent.edu by Tuesday, July 25. Depending on the number of entries that we receive, yours might be featured in e-Inside. Please use "Summer Vacation Photos" as your email subject line. See some photo submissions from last year: Summer vacation photos I Summer vacation photos II Summer vacation photos III ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
June 2017 Volume 14 | Issue 11 Cellular Device Authorization Renewals Due in June In April and May, each vice president identified employees who will no longer be eligible for a cellphone stipend as of July 1, 2017. Over half of the employees who received stipends in Fiscal Year 2017 are no longer eligible for Fiscal Year 2018. No email reminders will be issued to stipend recipients. So in order to avoid confusion, it is important that managers remind their eligible employees to submit the workflow for renewal. Each employee who remains eligible for a cellphone stipend ...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
May 2017 Volume 14 | Issue 10 University Employee Separation Plan The Kent State University Board of Trustees has approved a voluntary separation plan for staff members. To be eligible, employees would need to have at least 15 years of service to Kent State or be eligible for retirement effective July 1, 2017. The timeframe for choosing to participate runs through May 31, 2017. Individuals that elect to participate in the voluntary separation plan receive 100 percent of their annual base salary, to a certain maximum, divided into 60 equal monthly payments and paid into a ...
Compliance and Risk Management
During its annual conference in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Aviation Association designated the Kent State University Airport as its Airport of the Year. Each year, the Ohio Aviation Association selects an airport that puts into practice the association’s mission of promoting aviation by providing access and availability to the exchange of ideas and new methods, as well as information and experiences. This award is an acknowledgement that Kent State University has made extraordinary accomplishments in moving its airport program forward, and in doing so, moving aviation in Ohio forward. “The...