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Congratulations! to Claudia (CV) Garcia, a Ph.D. candidate and graduate assistant in the Higher Education program in the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration, has an article published in the Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers.Titled “Representation Matters,” the article summarizes the research Claudia has been working on, and will be presenting at the American Association for Educational Research (AERA) conference in April in Philadelphia. Claudia also works as a graduate teaching fellow in the Graduate College.SWE Magazine is the award-winning publication of the Societ...

 According to the World Economic Forum, it will take 131 years to close the gender pay gap with the current rates. The gender pay gap is the difference between the earnings of men and women.Students filed into the conference room in the Williamson House on Friday, March 15, to learn how to negotiate pay and combat the gender wage gap. Kristin Williams, director of Career Services at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship and a certified instructor through the American Association of University Women, led the workshop and discussion.  The Kent State Universit...

The Division of Student Life at �������� has been selected as one of the 2024 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs (MPPWSA) by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) — College Student Educators International and the Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine.The division has received this national recognition for the fourth consecutive year. Out of the 26 MPPWSA, Kent State was the only university in Ohio included in this year’s list.Eboni Pringle, Ph.D., interim senior vice president of Student Life, represented the Division of Student Life at the ACPA24 ...

Janice KroegerSchool of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies Janice Kroeger, Ph.D., is a Professor in Curriculum and Instruction and Early Childhood Education for the School of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Studies. Kroeger teaches family, school, community partnerships utilizing critical and feminist lenses, as well as basic and advanced qualitative research methodologies.  Her research interest spans the early years, typically featuring identity and diversity constructs within discursive, arts-based, and post-foundational qualitative methodologies. Kroeger’s most recent...

The �������� community attended a virtual event on March 19 in which Rabbi Michael Ross, senior Jewish educator at Hillel at Kent State, gave an overview on the role of antisemitism, how to combat it and its impact on the Jewish community on campus and worldwide.The “Understanding and Combating Antisemitism” discussion was a continuation of the yearlong initiative “Dialogue and Difference: A New Understanding,” designed to engage the Kent State community and advance our core values of freedom of expression, respect and kindness in all we do....

My name is Autumn Redd, and I am majoring in neuroscience with a pre-medicine concentration. I am expected to graduate in the spring of 2025. I chose to go to Kent State for several reasons. Neuroscience has been my area of interest since the 7th grade, and I was determined to find a college that offered a neuroscience program. When I discovered how prestigious the Kent State neuroscience program was, Kent became one of my top choices. My father is also a Kent State alumnus, so I have heard nothing but positive feedback.As someone who comes from a high school that held a community-based a...