Omer Farooq, M.L.I.S. ’12, doctoral student in the College of Communication and Information, and Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., published an article titled “Opportunities and Challenges for Students in an Online Seminar-Style Course in LIS Education: A Qualitative Case Study” in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS), Vol. 57, No. 4 (October 2016).
Omer Farooq, College of Communication and Information, and Miriam Matteson, School of Library and Information Science

Michelle Adkins was named the outreach program coordinator for the Rural Scholars program on the Salem and East Liverpool campuses.

The project is part of the university's Gateway to a Distinctive Kent State, a $1.2 billion master plan to transform the Kent Campus over 10 years.

In order to remain competitive and encourage retention, we are pleased to announce a new and innovative way to provide salary increases for the non-represented classified and unclassified employees.


Familiar Face
nzinga Hart
Academic Program Coordinator
College of Communication and Information
Kent Campus


Donating a kidney to her father was not how Maggie Martin expected to begin her sophomore year at 鶹ѡ.
But when the Cleveland Clinic cleared her and her father, James “Jamie” Martin, for the surgery, his health took priority over classes.
Preparing for Surgery
Ms. Martin, 19, started her school year Aug. 23 by explaining to her professors that she was having surgery the following day to donate a kidney to her father.
The 鶹ѡ Board of Trustees approved a $3.2 million contract with Akron’s Signet Real Estate Group to lead the design phase for the new home for the College of Business Administration, a marquee building that is proposed to anchor the first phase of the Gateway to a Distinctive 鶹ѡmaster plan, also called the Kent Gateway Plan.
The 2018 , which includes a marathon, half-marathon and team relay, will be held in downtown Akron on Saturday, Sept.
David Odell-Scott, College of Arts and Sciences, authored the book The Sense of Quoting: A Semiotic Case Study of Biblical Quotations, 2.4 Edition, (Brill), (2017).