Flashes of Success

March Food Distribution Event

Kent State's Football team and other Kent State students volunteered at Campus Kitchen's March food distribution in collaboration with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank Wednesday, March 17th, at Dix Stadium.

This volunteer opportunity will continue on the third Wednesday of every month through June thanks to a food bank grant from Feeding America. Aditionally, Campus Kitchen student volunteers hold food pantries in Tri-Towers three times per week as well and support the food pantry within the Office of the Dean of Students. 

Students to be supported with immersive opportunities centered on service and career-related experiences. 

CommUNITY Lab is a new four-year cohort program coordinated through Community Engaged Learning that offers scholars a network of care and resources while removing financial, academic, and personal barriers to success. Participants reside in a Living-Learning Community located in Lake Hall on the Kent Campus where they learn through specially selected courses, plug into campus resources and co-create individualized achievement plans with their support networks.

Exploratory Program selected as the 2021 Outstanding Advising Program by NACADA

Assisting Exploratory students with confidently declaring their major by connecting with intentional action items is the goal of MAP. The MAP has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 NACADA Outstanding Advising Program Award. The NACADA Outstanding Advising Program Award recognizes advising programs that are innovative and/or exemplary practices resulting in improvement of academic advising services. The Outstanding Advising Program Award application was judged on the following criteria: innovative quality, creativity, currency, institutional commitment, impact evident by assessment, and transferability.

Young professionals benefit from personal and professional development through Engage! Cleveland. 

Katie Kimble assists in this endeavor as a memeber of the leadership council for Engage! Cleveland. 

Exploratory Program's Major Action Plan receives 2021 NASPA Excellence Award- Bronze Award recipient

Assisting Exploratory students with confidently declaring their major is the goal of the Exploratory Program's Major Action Program (MAP).

The MAP has just been selected as the recipient of the 2021 NASPA Excellence Bronze Award in the Academic Advising, Careers, Graduate Professional Category. The program connects students with intentional action items based on their career readiness, thus informing how, what, where, and why they may explore majors that align with their strengths and career interests.

The Excellence Award recognizes and highlights innovative initiatives that relate to the programs, policies, procedures, best practices, or services. The Excellence Award application was judged on the following criteria: impact on student learning, relevance to our mission, successfully addressing students' needs and program concerns and issues (e.g. retention), collaboration with campus partners, use of innovative and creative methods/technology, application to theoretical framework, and evidence of program assessment. The award will be shared publicly during the 2021 NASPA Virtual Conference. 

2021 ACPA Distinguished Commission Award

Students at Kent State get expert career insight from our Senior Career Advisor Krittika Grau, who is a member of the ACPA Commission and has just been awarded the Distinguished Commission Award for 2021.

Her commission was recognized for working with the resources it had at its disposal and demonstrating distinguished leadership by providing balanced, innovative, and sustainable products, projects, and services within or across the commissions and to ACPA.  

Another Suit Up Success

Over 325 students pre-registered for a Suit-Up event hosted by Career Exploration and Development in partnership with JCPenney.

Discounts were available to all students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Jody Patterson and Aryanna Sciranka planned the virtual shopping event and hundreds took advantage, resulting in thousands of dollars in savings on professional attire.

PNC Foundation awards $75,000 in support of student success 

Students to be supported with immersive opportunities centered on service and career-related experiences. CommUNITY Lab is a new four-year cohort program coordinated through Community Engaged Learning that offers scholars a network of care and resources while removing financial, academic, and personal barriers to success. Participants reside in a Living-Learning Community located in Lake Hall on the Kent Campus where they learn through specially selected courses, plug into campus resources and co-create individualized achievement plans with their support networks.