Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit or call 330-346-0100.
Do Kent State employees get a discount at the Kent State Hotel?
Christopher Dum, Department of Sociology, authored Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel, 1st Ed., New York, NY: Columbia University Press, (2016).
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Following a national search, Â鶹´«Ã½ has selected F. Jack Witt III as its new vice president for human resources. A Kent State alumnus, Witt currently serves as vice president of human resources and administration at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. He joins Kent State on Sept. 6.
Â鶹´«Ã½'s Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon has announced that Joan Inderhees will join the Office of the Provost in August to serve as the 2016-2017 Provost's Fellow.
On June 28, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Division of Information Services will begin implementing a Captcha service for the Kent State online directory. A Captcha is a security feature that differentiates people from internet bots by presenting online users with a simple visual puzzle, often made up of distorted text.
Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at Â鶹´«Ã½ have published a breakthrough article on new properties of liquid crystals in the May 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The article, which describes some recent surprising results involving nematic liquid crystals induced by a high magnetic field, is currently featured on the American Physical Society website as an “Editors’ Suggestion.â€
Â鶹´«Ã½ was honored by the National Wrestling Coaches Association for having the fifth highest team grade point average in the nation. Additionally, seniors Mack McGuire (Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania) and Tyler Buckwalter (Mill Hall, Pennsylvania) and redshirt freshman Kyle Conel (Ashtabula, Ohio) were named to the NWCA All-Academic Team.
Online final grading for Summer 2016 First 7 Weeks (W1) courses meeting from May 16 through July 2 begins Thursday, June 30, via FlashFAST.
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Â鶹´«Ã½ at Tuscarawas was recently awarded LEED® certification for the Tolloty Technology Incubator.
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Â鶹´«Ã½'s holiday closure for 2024 will begin Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, at 10:30 p.m. All offices will re-open on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. Employees not eligible for the paid leave include student employees, classified temporary staff, temporary agency staff, short-term unclassified appointments, unclassified intermittent appointments and employees in a lay-off status. More information on the holiday schedule, including how employees should report time during that period, will be available later this month.
Testing Your Faith Act (H.B. 353) was enacted in the Spring 2023 semester. In ordinance with this bill, Â鶹´«Ã½ created a new administrative policy for religious and spiritual accommodations. This administrative policy allows students to report up to three days of unexcused absences to participate in religious holidays or community-held events in alignment with their spirituality.
Kent businesses, with the help of Main Street Kent, have created an exclusive weekend of special offers, giveaways, discounts and raffles just for educators Friday, Nov, 17 through Sunday, Nov. 19. Simply show your school ID at time of purchase for offerings and discounts. Explore participating businesses and special offers!