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New Face Cheryl Slusarczyk Academic Program Coordinator College of Education, Health and Human Services Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Working with graduate students in the doctoral program from admission through graduation in the Office of Graduate Student Services WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: July 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Department of Polymer Engineering, the University of Akron LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Positive atmosphere and congeniality  ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Positive growth and be...

Richard (Rick) Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, participated in a series of leadership meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest society of anthropologists from Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 2017, in Washington, D.C. These included meetings of the AAA Executive Board and the Association Operations Committee. Dr. Feinberg chaired meetings of the AAA's Section Assembly and Section Assembly Executive Committee as well as one academic session.   Web link: http://www.americananthro.org/ ...

Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and Archives, presented “Project STAND: A Collaborative Initiative to Highlight Acts of Social Justice Thru Archives” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 2017. Summary: The presentation included an introduction to Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented), a collaborative effort with various universities across the country, to create an online clearinghouse where academic institutions can provide researchers access to historical and archival documentation on the ...

Jennifer L. McCullough, School of Communication Studies, Andy J. Merolla, Shuangyue Zhang and Shaojing Sun, authored “How Do You Like Your Forgiveness? Communication Style Preferences and Effects” in Communication Studies, Kenneth Lachlan (Ed.), Vol. 68, Issue 5, (2017): 568-587.   Summary: According to the authors’ abstract, the two studies examined forgiveness recipients’ evaluations and responses to four styles of forgiveness-granting communication: engaging, de-emphasizing, conditional and suppressing. In the context of close friendships, Study 1 showed that the engaging style w...

School of Communication Studies Assistant Professor Jennifer M. McCullough, Ph.D., co-authored “Screen Exposure During Daily Routines and a Young Child’s Risk for Having Social-Emotional Delay” in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 56, No. 5, 2017, 1244-1253.   “Dr. Raman was a Pediatric Fellow at Akron’s Children Hospital, and she was concerned about how screen time may be interrupting important routines which are an important part of social-emotional development," McCullough said. "The study was supported by an Akron Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Fund grant to further ...

The �������� Board of Trustees approved a tuition guarantee plan that will provide students and their families certainty in budgeting for college tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board, including meal plans. Board members were presented with details of the plan during their Dec. 13, 2017, meeting on the Kent Campus, and the Board will be asked to approve specific rates for the tuition guarantee at its next meeting in March 2018.  The college tuition guarantee is in alignment with the state of Ohio’s strategy for tuition affordability when implemented, effective with t...

Following a national search, �������� has selected John M. Rathje as its vice president for information services and chief information officer. Mr. Rathje comes to Kent State from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he has served as associate vice chancellor and chief information officer. He has significant experience in both higher education and industry sectors, including 15 years of increasingly complex leadership roles in higher education. He joins Kent State on March 5. Mr. Rathje will report directly to Mark Polatajko, Kent State’s senior vice president for f...

�������� has announced the hiring of Sean Lewis as its 22nd head football coach. Coach Lewis brings an extensive coaching résumé to Kent State and has been one of the fastest-rising coaches in the nation over the last decade. He comes to the Kent State Golden Flashes after serving as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Dino Babers at Syracuse University. His background stretches from his four-year playing career at the University of Wisconsin under Barry Alvarez to winning the 2015 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championship as the co-offensive coordinator a...

Road work on Summit Street will stop for the next few months, but it will resume again in the spring as the two-year project comes to a close.     Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume throughout the entire construction area in time for the start of the spring semester on Jan. 16, providing better access for motorists and pedestrians during the winter months. Contractors will be doing work on other parts of the project as weather permits, but there should be minimal disruption to the flow of traffic.    In the spring, the remaining part of Summit Street, from J...

�������� will hold its 16th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The keynote speaker for the event is Bertice Berry, Ph.D. A Kent State alumna and sociologist, she is also an award-winning entertainer, lecturer and comedienne. Dr. Berry’s vision is to enable, empower and uplift others to live an intentional life of purpose and joy. Her mission is to inspire change and transformation through life-long learning, diversity, values and excellence. Dr. Berry was the host and co-executive producer of her own nationally...