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View Livestream Delivering his remarks to a packed FirstEnergy Auditorium, CNN’s chief media correspondent and anchor of the weekly program “Reliable Sources,” Brian Stelter talked about the current media environment and delivered 11 keys for ethical journalism in the fake news era (see sidebar/graphic). In his lecture, entitled “Telling the Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts,” Stelter also encouraged students to find the one thing they were more passionate about than anyone they knew and really dive into it. He advised writing constantly to build up what he called “muscle memory” so you ...

CNN’s Brian Stelter shares his advice for Kent State students pursuing a career in journalism in an exclusive interview with CCI. Q: You started a blog in college about the media called  TvNewser and actually sold it to a company. How can a student jump start something like that today? A: What's amazing about the internet is that you can bring like-minded people together about any topic. Nothing is too small. No matter what you're interested in there is someone else out there who's also interested in it and you can bring people together.  Q: What does the future of journalism ...

������ English Professor Vera Camden, Ph.D., turned a movement against sexual assault and harassment into a course in order to study the impact of the movement and the forces that led to it. Dr. Camden’s inspiration to start the #MeToo: Women and New Media course was internally motivated, but sparked by external factors. “My hope is to keep a certain momentum going,” Dr. Camden said. “Because so often in our culture, things spike, and then they go away. I really feel like this is so important and so urgent and so serious.”   Dr. Camden has a long-standing interest in wome...

In February, Rockwell Automation hosted a hackathon, 24toCode, to get the word out about what they do. They defined their hackathon as an intense problem-solving event lasting 24 hours at their Mayfield Heights location. Students were invited to bring a team or show up as an individual and form a team with other participants. Patrick Baker, an engineering student from the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and Jacob Lebowitz from the College of Arts and Sciences, a computer science major, won first place in the competition. “We were given a manufacturing dataset which we analyzed and th...

If you don’t know Abby Clarke yet, it’s just a matter of time!  Abby is a poster child for ������ Geauga, in living color. You’ll find Abby at the front desk, leading campus tours or supporting admissions by posting on social media and speaking in auditoriums packed with high school students. At every turn, Abby is extolling the multiple benefits of ������’s Geauga campus. “I love Kent State Geauga!” Abby enthuses. “I will be sad when I have to leave in a year to take classes at the Kent campus. The professors here recognize I’m capable of more, so they...

Learning by doing is the most effective way to help nursing students master their vital roles as troubleshooters, patient advocates and agents of healing. According to Melissa Owen, MSN, RN, that’s why her hands-on instructional approach makes the Kent State Geauga nursing program so successful. As a Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) coordinator and lecturer for the Kent State Geauga College of Nursing for the past two years, Owen points to three major accomplishments since she took leadership in the program: 100% NCLEX pass rates. This means that each Kent State Geauga graduate in 2018 ...

Kent State is a Great College to Work For When you asked for a “one campus” feel, we consolidated all graduations to provide a consistent experience, and offered more webinars and regional activities across all shifts to better connect employees. When you wanted the option to be identified by a “preferred name” at work, we added a feature to your personal information on Flashline that facilitates an inclusive environment. ������ is again participating in the Great Colleges to Work For program. By doing so, we can continue to track our progress in responding to your insi...

At this point every winter, cabin fever has set in and most of us are daydreaming about springtime. As land steward for Geauga Park District (GPD) in Chardon, Joel Firem is especially eager to get his hands back into the springtime soil to plant tree and wildflower seedlings. Thanks to an ongoing collaboration with Kent State Geauga and the Regional Academic Center, Firem doesn’t have to wait until May to start the planting season. Every March, he nurtures seeds at the Kent State Geauga greenhouse in Burton so the seedlings are ready to plant outdoors two to three months later. Through this...

Kristen Brett, a fourth year student in ������'s College of Podiatric Medicine, has been elected president of the American Podiatric Medical Students' Association (APMSA). Ms. Brett attended the 2019 APMSA House of Delegates meeting in Nashville, Tennessee in February, along with 140 podiatric medical students from around the country, including student leadership from the other eight podiatry colleges. Founded in 1954, the APMSA provides equal representation from each podiatric medical college, and exists to provide a forum to address and solve student issues; to further t...