Terry Schwarz is the director of Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) which is the outreach arm of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Terry’s work at the CUDC includes neighborhood and campus planning, commercial and residential design guidelines, and ecological strategies for vacant land reuse. Terry launched the CUDC’s Shrinking Cities Institute in 2005 in an effort to understand and address the implications of population decline and large-scale urban vacancy in Northeast Ohio. MORE INFORMATION ON THE CUDC ...
The Tamplin Award is given annually to recognize the excellent work of Writing Commons consultants and to honor the outstanding contributions of our consultants of the intellectual life of the university. The award is named after Professor John C. Tamplin, a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Writing Commons. Writing Commons consultants can be nominated in the Summer, Fall, and Spring terms. Nominations for close in February for the current academic year.Who is eligible for the Tamplin Award?Any graduate or undergraduate writing consultant working in ...
College of Communication & Information
The Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Media Law Center for Ethics and Access will host the third annual Media at the Movies on Tuesday, March 7. Join us for a viewing of “Spotlight”, followed by a discussion of media ethics. The event will take place at 6 p.m. in Franklin Hall’s FirstEnergy Auditorium (Room 340). "Spotlight", an Academy Award winning film, is about a group of reporters at The Boston Globe who in 2002, uncovered the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. This movie brings up a number of media ethics questions: How do reporters find...
Kent Campus
New Face David Mitchell General Manager Performing Arts Center Tuscarawas Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I manage and oversee the evaluation, selection and contract process for special events, presentations, performances and facility usage of our 1,100-seat theatre. I also plan and direct all center activities through a team of administrative, professional and support staff, and oversee personnel administration and professional development of staff. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 2015 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Universal Protection Service and Broa...
Marianne Martens, Ph.D., School of Library and information Science, presented a paper titled “Subversively addressing information poverty: Alma Flor Ada, social justice, and the quest for bilingual books in America 1970-2014” as part of a panel called “Dismantling Information Poverty in Cultural Production for Young People,” on Oct. 17, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Other panel members included Nicole Cooke, Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science at the University of Illinois, and Beth Juncker...
It is not necessary for employees to use their vacation or sick time for these types of events. Any employee who wishes to attend a university-sponsored event only needs to seek permission from his or her supervisor to leave the work site. Supervisors, as is the case for any leave request, will make their own decision on granting the leave based upon their need to operate effectively and efficiently. ...