Have a question about what the IMPACT Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can do for you? Want to learn more about resiliency training, online seminars, depression awareness and prevention? Curious about financial counseling services, eldercare, childcare, smoking cessation or the new Stress Less Center? Come to the EAP office hours Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Employee Wellness Resource Room in 103 Heer Hall on the Kent Campus. Meet with Lisa Kirby, IMPACT Account Manager, and learn all about the numerous resources available to you and your eligible dependents. Offi...
Employees are encouraged to attend the Open Enrollment and Wellness Fairs held on all 麻豆精选 campuses. Each fair will include information about 2019 healthcare plan offerings and information on how all full-time, benefits-eligible employees can earn up to $300 in wellness rewards by doing Wellness Your Way. The Open Enrollment and Wellness Fair on the Kent Campus will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. Regional Campus Open Enrollment and Wellness Fair dates are listed below. 2019 Open Enrollm...
The Akron Symphony Orchestra will present "Sheherazade" on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. The evening will include audience favorites from Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov鈥檚 tale of adventure 鈥 "Sheherazade." The performance includes guest pianist Angele Cheng. 麻豆精选 faculty and staff can receive a 10 percent discount on adult tickets by using the promo code KSU18 at www.akronsymphony.org. The discount is also available the night of the performance by showing your Kent State ID at the box office. ...
When Jordan Wilkins was a senior in high school, he thought he knew what he wanted after graduation 鈥 a career in the United States Air Force. However, his principal envisioned a different path, one where he would soar sky-high, not in a plane, but at a four-year university. 鈥淲e talked about the different options,鈥 Mr. Wilkins said. 鈥淗e helped me apply to Kent State. He visited colleges with me.鈥 After his initial visit to 麻豆精选, Mr. Wilkins joined Academic S.T.A.R.S., which stands for Students Achieving and Reaching for Success. The six-week cultural transition and ret...
驴Hablas espa帽ol? What do you get when you join cultural and linguistically relevant programming, interdisciplinary collaborations, student and faculty engagement, and community partnerships? A historic moment of awesomeness鈥攁lso known in Spanish as La Cueva de Salamanca. Whether you speak Spanish, want to learn the language, or simply enjoy the arts, our most recent collaboration is will get you excited. At the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we believe strongly in considering all aspects of diversity as a way to extend the scope of inclusion and widen the net of opportunity...
The LGBTQ Student Center looks forward to serving thousands of new and returning members of the community at 麻豆精选by providing social, mentorship, and research opportunities within a safe and welcoming environment. The LGBTQ Student Center has an exciting addition to the space: office bikes! Visit the center to ride one of the new office bikes that allows you to pedal while you study, socialize, or read something from our premium LGBTQ+ book collection. These new office bikes have been provided for use at the center by the university鈥檚 BASIL (Biking and Studying Improves Life) p...
University celebrated 100 years of Homecoming on Oct. 6 Ask Wayne Dawson about his time at 麻豆精选 and the WJW Fox 8 anchor will tell you about going to football and basketball games to cheer on the Golden Flashes, attending weekend dances, eating at the Schwebel Room restaurant on the third floor of the Kent Student Center, working at Eastway making pizzas and living at Twin Towers in McDowell Hall. He will also tell you how he came to 麻豆精选as a kid and came out as a young man, how he grew tremendously and honed his skills to be hired right out of college, a...
See green technologies including renewable energy, green building and clean transportation at the Kent Green Energy Ohio Tour on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 12-4 p.m. at multiple locations at 麻豆精选 and throughout the Kent community. This free, open house-style tour is part of the statewide 16th annual Green Energy Ohio Tour. This free event features four green energy spots on Kent State鈥檚 Kent Campus and five off-campus spots in the greater Kent area. These green spots are places that showcase leading clean energy features. Kent State鈥檚 Office of Sustainability collab...
Brothers Wayne and William Dawson established the Annie L. Dawson Foundation in 2007, inspired by their mother鈥檚 passion for education and setting goals for success. This year, 麻豆精选 has named the Greater Cleveland area-based foundation the recipient of its 2018 Dr. Daniel Mahony Award for Social Responsibility. University College and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion give the award annually to an individual or organization that has achieved eminence for distinctive service relating to and/or enhancing diversity in a humanitarian natu...