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For Diamond Lauderdale, �������� is not only her chosen college, it is her home. While growing up in Akron, Ohio, Ms. Lauderdale’s home life was challenging. She lived with her disabled father and worked two jobs to help make ends meet. Ms. Lauderdale’s father had been unable to walk for many years, and as she got older, her father’s condition worsened. Through it all, Ms. Lauderdale held onto a dream. She wanted to get a college education. Ms. Lauderdale’s father did not graduate from high school, so she understood that the hope of a college degree was an ambitious one. But...

Ecosystems in today's world are responding to a wide variety of environmental changes. What happens when these changes interact? That was the topic of a recent paper published by David Ward, Ph.D., the Art and Margaret Herrick Endowed Professor of Plant Biology in ��������'s Department of Biological Sciences, and international colleagues and graduate students in the journal Scientific Reports. Although climate change is often viewed as the overriding global challenge, grasslands around the world are actually often directly threatened by a simple neighboring ...

�������� President Beverly J. Warren recently presented 11 Kent State staff members with the President’s Award of Distinction. President Warren made surprise visits to each recipient’s office with a hearty congratulations and a check for $1,500. Formerly known as the President’s Excellence Award, the President’s Award of Distinction recognizes full-time, classified and unclassified employees. There were nearly 300 eligible nominations received from supervisors, peers, colleagues and students across Kent State’s eight campuses. Staffers had to demonstrate exceptional performance ...

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The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org) granted 10 years accreditation to �������� College of Nursing baccalaureate and master’s degree programs, as well as the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and the post-graduate APRN certificate program, extending to December 31, 2028. “The excellence in education and the hard work of the faculty and staff of Kent State College of Nursing have enabled us to receive the maximum CCNE accreditation of 10 years,” said College of Nursing Dean Barbara Broome, Ph.D., RN, FAAN. “I continue to b...

�������� President Beverly J. Warren challenged the university community to embrace transformation at the annual State of the University Address.   “Serious transformation is never easy,” she says. “It challenges us to let go of predictable ways and embrace something new and unfamiliar.”   President Warren says the campus community is well-positioned to both embrace its future and to take the reins driving it toward world-changing successes.   “The future has arrived,” President Warren says. “A visionary university has no choice but to respond. Will Kent State...

Q: What will the holiday schedule be this year? A. The holiday schedule will begin Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, at 10:30 p.m., and offices will reopen on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. During that time, all nonessential operations will be closed at all Kent State campuses. Eligible classified and unclassified employees will receive paid leave for any regularly scheduled work time from Dec. 26-31 (referred to as additional days in the following questions). The paid leave is in addition to the paid holidays of Dec. 24, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. Normal business opera...

Familiar Face Arvind Bansal Professor Computer Science Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Teaching and research in the area of artificial intelligence, multimedia and virtual reality, social robotics and humanoids, computational health informatics and bioinformatics WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 1988 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Case Western Reserve University LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Beautiful campus ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Lets me be myself RESIDES IN: Twinsburg, Ohio HOMETOW...

New Face Taylor Livengood Admissions Counselor Admissions Office Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Traveling to high schools and colleges around Northwest Ohio to help students in their college-search process (and telling them about how great Kent State is)  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2018 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I worked as a student employee in the Admissions Office, and I worked as a student employee for the �������� Post Office. LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The overall atmosphere. Everyone is so friendly, an...