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...
As part of the university’s Kent State of Wellness initiative, Kent State University is becoming a smoke-free, tobacco-free campus. A part of the university’s Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State, all Kent State campuses will be smoke- and tobacco-free beginning July 1, 2017, fostering the wellbeing of the university community and the environment. According to NoSmoke.org, an estimated 1.69 billion pounds of cigarette butts end up in landfills each year. The policy not only helps to address this problem, but also will help to beautify campus by removing the cigarette...
Kent Campus
Instead of heading home to relax following the conclusion of finals week, a group of Kent State University student-athletes traveled to Aguacate, Belize, to partner with Courts for Kids on a service project from May 16-24. A total of 19 student-athletes volunteered to make the trip and were accompanied by five staff members as they aided community members in the construction of a multipurpose sports court located next to the local school. “I am so impressed with all of our student-athletes and staff members that came on this trip and couldn’t be more proud of how they have represen...
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The Girls Geared for Engineering Camp at Kent State University is the result of a partnership between Kent State’s College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology and the Six District Educational Compact. The weeklong camp lets middle school girls experience aerospace engineering and mechatronics. ...
This semester Karen Cunningham had students in the Honors section of Introduction to Conflict Management write essays for the YES! Magazine Spring 2017 Writing Competition. The topic involved reading and responding to an article about gender identity and the use of gender pronouns. The top three essays from the class were submitted to YES! magazine for the competition. YES! Magazine has now officially announced the essay contest winners and has published them on their website, and one of the essays submitted from the class was recognized. A portion of&...
Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, co-authored a poster titled “Representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) Culture: A Case of Hula Dance,” which was presented on Oct. 17, 2016, at the President’s Reception and Poster Session of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-authors: W. Buente; L. Quiroga; S. Valeho-Novikoff.) ...
Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, co-presented a session titled “Competency-Based Discovery for Learning Linked Data,” Special Session #5, on Oct. 14, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-presenters were: Thomas Baker, DCMI, Germany; Michael Crandall, University of Washington, Seattle; Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations/Data Harmony, Albuquerque, N.M.; Stuart A. Sutton, DCMI and University of Washington, Seattle; David Talley, University of Washington, Seattle.) ...