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Familiar Face Joanne Kilgour Dowdy  Professor of Literacy Studies School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Professor for pre-service teachers and graduate students WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2001 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: The students ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: International professionals on campus RESIDES IN: Stow, Ohio HOMETOWN: Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies EDU...

New Face Leslie Bowser International Agent Coordinator Office of Global Education Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: As the international agent coordinator for the International Partnerships Division, I manage our agreements with international education agents and collaborate with them to support the university’s recruitment goals.  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2016 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Most recently, I was admissions coordinator for LADO International Institute at Baldwin Wallace. Prior to that, I was a global relocation cons...

The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at �鶹��ѡ is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of the coalition to produce national programs on themes of social importance that feature leading contemporary poets. It also will strengthen a network of poetry organizations by making possible two annual meetings of the founding members during the grant term.  Current members of the Poetry Coalit...

This summer, we are exercising our energy efficiency muscles! Get tips in e-Inside each week to add to your training to prepare for peak load days! On peak load days, energy demand is at its highest in the region. Saving energy on those particular days means energy savings plus lower energy rates and helping protect our air quality. Whenever there is a peak load day, you will be able to confidently use your training, flex your energy efficiency muscles and help with Kent State’s energy conservation efforts. Learn more about peak load days ...

�鶹��ѡ freshman economics major Hannah Robinson, who also is a participant in the university’s Student Support Services program, recently participated in the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Freshman Experience program in April. The two-day program offered first-year university students who self-identify as Black, Hispanic or Native American an introduction into the financial services’ industry. Students participated in one of two sessions hosted at the JPMorgan Chase global headquarters in New York City, with travel and accommodations provided by the company. During her stay in N...

Online final grading for summer 1 2017 (S1) began Thursday, July 13, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any summer 2017 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, July 18. Any final grades for summer 2017 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These summer 2017 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, July 20.    To access Final Grades via FlashFAST, log into FlashLine and click on the Faculty & Advisor...

Team �鶹��ѡ“moves” up the leaderboard �鶹��ѡ has been designated as one of the Top 25 most active employers in the country. The university placed 17th in the Large Employer category of this year’s national On the Move Workplace Challenge. That is a significant improvement from last year’s 29th-place finish. “Our employees continue to demonstrate their passion for opportunities to engage in their personal well-being,” says Kim Hauge, director for employee wellness at Kent State. “As a team, they rose to the occasion to move more, learn more, assess more and cheer on their ...

It all started with an idea that is now blossoming into a business, even before three �鶹��ѡ students graduate. Kourtney Arnold, from Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services, and Asia Frazier and Tiffany Coleman, from Kent State’s College of Communication and Information, are the masterminds behind Fresh LLC, an app that they are launching to help connect students on campus to social events. The trio is breaking the mold of students interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related fields. WKYC-TV talked with the students about the...

�鶹��ѡ’s current Police Academy cadets recently scored a collective 100 percent on their State of Ohio Physical Fitness Assessment. Only 12 of the 29 cadets, formally known as BAS 17-016, initially passed the assessment on Feb. 6 at the beginning of the program. “They made a commitment to one another,” says Class Commander Wayne Parker, sergeant with �鶹��ѡ Police Department. “As a gesture of good luck for their final assessment, one of the cadets had athletic socks made for all 29 cadets with their class number stitched in them.” The assessment consists of ...

Three �鶹��ѡ community members have developed a new app called Circl, which reinvents how people socialize and network. “Imagine being able to share appropriate contact information in an instant with one scan on your mobile device,” says Zachary Eckert, �鶹��ѡsenior finance major. “Circl allows you to do so. It is an app that brings a new definition to a meaningful connection, and it gives you the ability to share contact information on your own terms.” This past February, Eckert and his Circl co-founder �鶹��ѡalumnus Michael Frindt, ’16, who received his bachelor’s ...