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�鶹��ѡ at Stark will host a Campus Preview for high school juniors, seniors and their parents on Saturday, Nov. 4. Campus tours will be held from 8 to 8:30 a.m. and depart from the lobby at Main Hall, 6000 Frank Ave. NW. The program will take place from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the new Science & Nursing Building, Room 101. Campus Preview will introduce prospective students to �鶹��ѡStark’s academic programs, departments and services in an informal atmosphere to allow for questions and conversation. Attendees will meet with representatives from �鶹��ѡStark’s Ad...

This year’s distinguished teacher’s award went to Dr. Gary Koski. He joins the ranks of fellow award recipients: Doug Kline, Mark Kershner, John Johnson, Don Gerbig, and Collen Novak. Biology has had 6 awardees in the past 8 years ...

�鶹��ѡ has received a $3.1 million gift for a College of Business Administration scholarship endowment from the estate of �鶹��ѡalumnus Joseph Stevens. The Stevens Family Scholarship for the College of Business Administration was established by Joseph and Frances Stevens. Mr. Stevens earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from �鶹��ѡin 1941. “We are grateful that the Stevens family’s tremendous support will enable us to provide additional scholarship opportunities in order to put ‘Students First’ in all we do,” says �鶹��ѡPresident Beverly Wa...

The �鶹��ѡ community celebrates another successful Homecoming!             ...

Associate Professor Michele Ewing earned the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) highest honor for Chapter advisor at the organization’s national conference earlier this month. Fifteen members of PRSSA Kent, along with Ewing, who has served as Kent State’s Chapter advisor for 14 years, traveled to Boston for the conference, where Ewing received the Teahan Faculty Advisor Award for outstanding service, guidance and contribution to the chapter. Along with Ewing’s honor, two �鶹��ѡpublic relations students were recognized with national honors, and the members had the cha...

Denise A. Seachrist, �鶹��ѡ at Stark, presented “Auctioning Off History: Twenty Years Following the Sad Demise of the Snow Hill Cloister” at the Communal Studies Association Annual Conference in Zoar, Ohio, on Oct. 6, 2017. Summary: The Snow Hill Cloister (Nunnery) was established in 1829 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the farm of Andreas Schneeberger and was considered an offshoot of the more well-known Ephrata Cloister, a communal settlement of German immigrants established in 1732 by Conrad Beissel in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The society itself came to an end ...

Steven Brown, Evaluation and Measurement; Amanda Wolf, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand; and James Rhoads, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, presented “An Abductory Examination of Abduction” at the 33rd annual meeting of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 9, 2017. Summary: As a mode of inference, abduction proposes plausible explanations for observed effects; i.e., whereas deduction argues from the general to particulars and induction generalizes from specifics, abduction argues from effects to ...

Lala Hajibayova, School of Information, and Wayne Buente authored “Representation of Indigenous Cultures: Considering the Hawaiian Hula” in Journal of Documentation, 73(6), 2017, 1137-1148. Web link: www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/JD-01-2017-0010 ...

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Familiar Face Jane Rossman Special Assistant Center for Gift and Estate Planning Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Serve as special assistant to the assistant vice president, senior director and associate director of the Center for Gift and Estate Planning WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: December 1996 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Akron Children’s Hospital LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: �鶹��ѡis a family! We have a beautiful campus and a great environment for all students, faculty and the community. ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN ...