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Dear Colleagues:  I am pleased to announce that the two candidates for the position of vice president for human resources will be on campus this week. As part of the interview process, each candidate will participate in a public presentation, which will include remarks and a question-and-answer period.  I encourage you to attend the following public presentations and then provide your input through the online surveys: Becky J. Hoover Associate Provost for Talent Development (2013-2016) The University of Akron Public Presentation Thursday, May 12 9:15-10 a.m. Library, Read Class...

�鶹��ý at Trumbull proudly announces Jennifer Roller, President of The Raymond John Wean Foundation, as its 2016 Spring Commencement speaker. Close to 100 of the more than 225 students graduating this spring will participate in the ceremony, which will be held Friday, May 13 at 6:00 p.m. in Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. in Warren. Roller is the first woman to serve as president of The Raymond John Wean Foundation, a 70 million dollar foundation that seeks to empower residents to create a healthy, vibrant, equitable and economically stable Mahoning Valley. She is also...

�鶹��ý will hold its Spring 2016 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center, and on Friday, May 20, at Cartwright Hall. Kent State will confer 4,210 degrees, including 3,067 bachelor’s degrees, 968 master’s degrees, 169 doctoral degrees and six educational specialist degrees.  Across the university’s eight-campus system, 5,226 students will graduate from Kent State this spring, including those receiving associate degrees. Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m. The 6 p.m. ceremony on Friday...

WKSU reporter/host Amanda Rabinowitz has been recognized by the Radio-Television-Digital News Association (RTDNA) with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Writing. The Murrow Awards are considered among the most-prestigious broadcast media awards. WKSU competes in the Large Market division against public and commercial radio stations in major cities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Rabinowitz’s entry now moves on automatically to the national RTDNA contest where it will compete with other first-place winners from large-market radio stations across the country. The winning entry to...

Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Digitally Archiving History: A Game Plan for Large, Unruly Archival Collections with Limited Staffing” at the Archiving 2016 Conference at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2016. ...

Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a paper titled "Process-learning as a Factor in Evaluation" at the First International Workshop on System And User-Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in March 2016. ...

Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, published an article titled “Improving Continuity of Care in Long Term Care: Impact of Health Information Exchange” in the fall 2015 issue of Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM). ...

Familiar Face Stephanie Snyder Assistant Director of Web and Creative Services College of Arts and Sciences Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: I work on the College of Arts and Sciences’ marketing team as the lead graphic designer and Web/creative professional. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 2010 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: None (straight out of college) LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: I love the environment – the beautiful campus, downtown, the community and events. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Easily the bigg...

New Face Mike Collura Manager, University Library Systems University Libraries Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Coordinates configuration and management of Kent State Libraries’ ILS and specialty systems for services, including online reserves, interlibrary loan, discovery services, institutional repository, and digital collections Coordinates the creation and maintenance of locally developed workflow applications Supports the libraries’ websites by coordinating the management of local servers and applications, and coordinating interconnections with the university’s conte...