Provost Updates
Kent State Selects Mark Mistur as the New Dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design
March 22, 2016 Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Pol…
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Opening for 2016-2017 Provost's Fellow
March 10, 2016 Faculty Colleagues: The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce an opening for a full-time Provost's Fellow to begin Fall Semester 2016. Since 2009, faculty members from the Kent and regional campuses, and from both the tenure-track and full-time non…
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Kent State Names Denise Seachrist as the New Dean of Kent State University at Stark
Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., of Rootstown, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Stark, located in North Canton, Ohio. Seachrist has served as interim dean of Kent State Stark, the only public university in Stark County and the largest R…
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Jarrod Tudor Selected as Dean of Kent State University at Geauga and the Regional Academic Center
Jarrod Tudor, Ph.D., of Burton, Ohio, has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Geauga, located in Burton, Ohio, and Kent State's Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg. Tudor has served as interim dean of Kent State Geauga since July 1, 2014. He w…
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Kent State Hosts ACE Fellow Joanne Goodell, Ph.D.
August 17, 2015 Kent State University President Beverly Warren has announced that Joanne Goodell, Ph.D., professor of mathematics education at Cleveland State University and a 2015-16 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow, will spend the full academic year on the Kent Campus. “Selection a…
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Kent State's T. David Garcia Named Senior Associate Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management
Kent State University's T. David Garcia has been named senior associate vice president for strategic enrollment management, overseeing the university's new Office of Enrollment Management. Garcia previously served as associate vice president for enrollment management in the former Division of Enroll…
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Kenneth Burhanna Named 2015-2016 Provost's Fellow
June 24, 2015 Dear Academic Affairs Colleagues: I am pleased to announce that Ken Burhanna will join the Office of the Provost in August to serve as the 2015-2016 Provost's Fellow. The Provost's fellowship provides faculty members who have an interest in academic administration the chance to deve…
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Leadership Appointments - Office of the Provost
June 16, 2015 It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Mandy Munro-Stasiuk will join the Office of the Provost as Interim Associate Provost for a one-year appointment beginning July 1, 2015. Among other responsibilities in her new role, Mandy will lead efforts to recruit…
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Reappointment of James Bracken - Dean, University Libraries
May 8, 2015 I write today to announce the reappointment of Dr. Jim Bracken to a second five-year term as Dean of the University Libraries. Dean Bracken has opened the Kent library to ever-greater numbers of students, and we appreciate his efforts to make it a center not only of research and con…
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Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services
May 7, 2015 Colleagues: The following announcement will be released later today. Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Kent State's College of Education, Health and Human Services Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and pers…
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