Dean Angela Spalsbury invited faculty, staff, and students to nominate Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center full-time and part-time faculty members as well as a full-time or part-time staff member to be selected for the Fall 2020 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance placed on superior teaching and encourages teaching achievement. The staff award is equally important but emphasizes an employee who supports the day-to-day operations of the two-site campus and the Students First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Fall 2020 Excellence Aw...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a journal article Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: The Heart of Anthropological Research, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Anthropologia culturalis, Jakub Havlicek, Volume 10, Issue 1, (2020): 5-17. ...
The President鈥檚 Award of Distinction was created as a recognition program to reward staff members who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, service, leadership, and dedication to Kent State in advancing the university鈥檚 strategic priorities and core values. Nominees for the award must have demonstrated exceptional performance in living the university鈥檚 core values and/or advancing the priorities of the Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State. Award recipients were selected by President Todd Diacon. The Division of Student Affairs had two staff members -- Director of the Student ...
Six of 妻友社区鈥檚 Regional Campuses were recently featured in Solar Power World for the installation of solar panels on its campuses, offering cleaner, more sustainable energy that is also more cost effective. The solar project involves the Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Stark and Trumbull campuses. In addition, Kent State鈥檚 College of Podiatric Medicine in Independence, Ohio, is included in the project and has installed solar panels near its building along Interstate 77. Bob Misbrener, project manager II of sustainability, energy conservation and comm...
An early holiday gift came to student Katelyn Matusky in the form of a $1,000 scholarship toward her Spring Semester studies from an anonymous 鈥淐hristmas Angel.鈥 Katelyn, who is pursuing his degree in Respiratory Therapy, was surprised with the award virtually by Dean Susan J. Stocker, Ph.D. during a staged meeting with faculty members from the Respiratory Therapy program. This is the fifth year in a row the Christmas Angel has rewarded a deserving student. Congratulations Katelyn! Watch the Surprise Announcement: https://youtu.be/lw1uRTLdTS4 Donors like the 鈥淐hristmas Angel鈥 ...