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�鶹��ý students grabbed their paddles, boots and waders to help clean up the Cuyahoga River. The service trip was put together by the Kent State's Recreation and Wellness Services’ Adventure Center, which holds adventure trips, service trips and team-building programs. The Adventure Center hopes to hold at least one service trip each semester allowing students the chance to give back to the environment. Chris Lukas, assistant director of outdoor adventure and operations, put together this semester's event with the environment as the top priority. “In the past we’ve...

Electric scooters have become increasingly popular on �鶹��ý’s Kent Campus since the introduction of SPIN scooters in March 2022. Approximately 300 eScooters and 150 eBikes are available to rent. With that in mind, the Kent State Community should be aware of the dos and don’ts when operating the scooters.  “We want people to educate themselves and be as informed as possible before jumping on one of these devices,” said Christopher Lukas, assistant director of outdoor operations and adventure for Kent Recreational Services. “Because if not, the scooters can be dangerous.”...

In May 2022, Students First was affirmed as the university’s top priority yet again as Flashes Together: Our Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State was launched. As a result, the timing was ideal for the Division of Finance and Administration to embark on a stakeholder-inclusive strategic planning process of its own to ensure alignment of their collective resources and the focusing of their collaborative energies to the successful delivery of the university’s strategic plan. They recently completed this process through engagement throughout the division with surveys and outreach. The...

HR Training & Development is now offering a new training for supervisors. A two-day, in-depth course, this training will focus on helping supervisors navigate new expectations and clarify what successful supervision looks like today. Learn more and register here! ...

Sept. 1 was National Food Bank Day, and the partnership between Meijer and �鶹��ý can help people support Kent State’s Flashes Fighting Hunger just by doing their weekly grocery shopping.  The Stow Meijer is partnering with Flashes Fighting Hunger to help fight the impact that rising food prices have on students and families in the Kent community. This year, the store announced Kent State as one of its Simply Give partners. Simply Give is Meijer’s customer-driven program whose goal is to help stock local food pantries. The program encourages...

�鶹��ý College of Podiatric Medicine (KSUCPM), alongside its teaching facility, The Cleveland Foot & Ankle Clinic (CFAC), is proud to welcome Joshua Moore, DPM, FACFAS as the new Division Head for the Division of Clinical Sciences. Dr. Moore is a Fellow of the American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and certified in Foot and Reconstructive Rearfoot/Ankle Surgery. Completing a high surgical volume residency at The University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey, Dr. Moore is proficient in all aspects of podiatric medicine and surgery. For the past eleven y...

Online midterm grading for all Fall 2023 lower-division undergraduate courses (levels 00000, 10000, 20000) meeting in the full term (Aug. 21, 2023, through Dec. 10, 2023) begins Sept. 11, 2023, via FlashFAST. Please remember that midterm grading applies ONLY to courses that meet for the full semester. Grading policies can be found in the University Catalog. The deadline for midterm grade submission is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Midterm grades may not be reported after the deadline. The Grade Change workflow cannot be used to report or change midterm grades after the deadline, and t...

At �鶹��ý, our employees are our most valued resource. As a reminder from a recent update from the Office of the President, the Board of Trustees will vote on our proposed annual university budget at its Sept. 20 meeting, and that includes a proposed 3% pay increase for all qualifying, non-represented staff as well as the contractual increases for unionized faculty and staff. The 3% increase would be effective with the pay period that includes Oct. 1, 2023. More specific details on staff salary increases, including eligibility, are listed below. Classified Non-re...

As we approach September, we encourage all Kent State employees who are eligible to earn vacation to review your balances and consider requesting approval to take time off before September 30 so that you do not lose any well-earned vacation time. This is an important reminder that you will experience a cutback to your vacation hours that exceed the policy maximum. Eligible employees are expected to take time off for rest, relaxation and other personal reasons during the year in which vacation is earned.  This is an informational message only and does not necessarily mean that you ...

Earlier this year, the EAB Navigate platform was chosen as a student success solution for �鶹��ý, through the collaboration of stakeholders across the university. Since this time, the student success platform leadership team and other colleagues have been working with EAB to prepare for implementation. The Student Success Platform Leadership Team is pleased to announce that KSU® Navigate is the new name for this platform. The leadership team is committed to engaging students throughout the implementation process and, to this end, held a student contest to name this n...