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������’s Honors College is a Living-Learning Community where first-year students like Michael Trauman have discovered a home away from home, and a place where they can pursue their dreams. Mr. Trauman is among the hundreds of students who comprise the largest Honors College freshman class ever. Freshman enrollment in 2017 grew by 14 percent over that of 2016, according to Alison Smith, the new dean of Kent State's Honors College. This academic year, Honors College boasts record enrollment of nearly 1,500. “For the last few years, Honors College has been growing rather rapidly...

������ 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 Kent State Stark’s academic programs, departments and services in an informal atmosphere to allow for questions and conversation. Attendees will meet with representatives from Kent State Stark’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 ...

������ has received a $3.1 million gift for a College of Business Administration scholarship endowment from the estate of Kent State alumnus 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 Kent State in 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 Kent State President Beverly Wa...

The ������ 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 Kent State public relations students were recognized with national honors, and the members had the cha...

Denise A. Seachrist, ������ 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 ...

Pack your mat! As part of the Employee Wellness Program, lunchtime yoga for faculty and staff is offered Tuesdays from 12:15-1 p.m. and Thursdays from 1:15-2 p.m. in Studio 1 at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center on the Kent Campus. Employees are asked to register for each day they would like to attend. Yoga instruction will be provided by Brenda Kavali, instructor at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. All fitness levels are welcome, and participants are requested to bring their own mat. A membership is not required to attend, and there is no cost to Kent State Un...