Kent State Today recently published an article featuring an interview with Dr. Karin Coifman, professor and chair for the Department of Psychological Sciences. In the article, Dr. Coifman discusses the ways that the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State prepares future mental health workers to work with individuals who have experienced trauma. Check out the article here:/today/news/finding-healthy-ways-help-those-facing-trauma ...
President Todd Diacon empathized with a campus community facing stress and concern amid academic changes being discussed as part of Transformation 2028 and recent government guidance that will impact how the campus community cares for one another.“We will follow the law, but it won’t change our commitment to each member of our community,” Diacon said.Diacon noted that he and other university presidents are pressing state leaders for more guidance on federal and state changes, but in the meantime, the university’s commitment to caring for all campus members with dignity an...
A treasure trove of historical Ohio maps that digitized about five years ago has recently become part of the public domain, making them free for anyone to use.It’s a case of the maps being the treasure, Michael Hawkins, Kent State’s data librarian and head of University Libraries’ Map Library, told Kent State Today.The Sanborn Fire Insurance Co. maps, dating from 1882, came into the collections of University Libraries in the early 1990s when the Library of Congress was looking for a home for thousands of pages of Sanborn maps.“The Library of Congress had original duplicat...