School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies

Student in Matthew Kane's self-defense class

Students in Adjunct Professor Matthew Kane's self-defense class had to demonstrate what they had learned in one-on-one tests in which they had to react to different scenarios and physically or verbally defend themselves.  Photos by Bob Christy, senior photography coordinator, University Communications and Marketing Want ...

A student uses defensive techniques she learned in Kane's class

“Overcoming obstacles, overcoming fear … if you can overcome that part of yourself and manifest courage and become strong, that applies to everything in life,” said Matthew Kane. Matthew Kane, teaching in the MACC Annex. Photo and header photo by Bob Christy, senior photography coordinator, University Communications and Marketing&nb...

Wilson Duda, a student in Kent State's Career and Community Studies program, works on his art.

Wilson Duda is learning to be a graphic illustrator for children’s books.  So far, so good.  So good in fact, that Duda’s logo will grace the T-shirts his fellow students from Kent State University’s Career and Community Studies program will wear as they march in the university’s annual Homecoming Parade.  Duda...

Honors College
Abigail stands with her parents in her graduation gown at her high school graduation ceremony on a football field.

Abigail Wilsbacher just began her freshman year at Kent State University this past fall, but she has been immersed in Kent State nearly her entire life. In 1997, her parents met as Honors College students at Kent State and now in 2023, Abigail continues the legacy as an Honors student.  Abigail’s parents, Matt Wilsbacher and Lisa V...

Image of an apple on a stack of books by Schäferle from Pixabay

They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and while this may not be an accurate statement in a literal sense, it is oftentimes the explanation used to justify adversity, rejection and misfortune.  Resilience is the ability to adapt to new situations and ever changing environments and resilient individuals more easily navigate...

Image by Daniel Friesenecker from Pixabay 

Recent funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has given interdisciplinary researchers the opportunity to help drive our understanding of patterns in nature when bringing together big data sources collected in different ways. The NSF awarded Christie Bahlai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in...

Members of Kent State University’s 2016-2017 Early Intervention Certificate Program cohort pose for a group photo.

Students receive full tuition for one year, monthly stipend and iPad Kent State University’s Special Education program is seeking applicants for its Early Intervention Certificate Program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The program prepares individuals at the graduate level to work with infants and toddlers who have identified disabili...

Kent State University students studying middle childhood education pose in front of their artwork in their Teaching and Learning class in White Hall.

University is one of three in the nation offering program Kent State University’s Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learnin...

Kent State University has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.  The Corporation for National and Community Service began awarding this honor in 2006 i...