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In a recent feature, Vogue magazine named Kent State as “One of the Best Fashion Schools for Design, Marketing, and More.” "Given its location, it might come as a surprise that ������ would rank as highly as it does—yet, their programs rival fashion schools in the country’s larger fashion cities thanks to their global approach to education and thoroughness in curating a program that’s outstanding both within and outside of the classroom. For students who are looking for a more classic approach to university, The School of Fashion at ������ is a strong choice....

The World Explorer's Club is an afterschool program that provides emergent, bilingual and multilingual children with a space to explore their strengths, interests, and identities.Launched two years ago by Lidia Traji, an English as a Second Language teacher at Richardson Elementary School in Cuyahoga Falls, and Gumiko Monobe, Ph.D., associate professor in the Early Childhood Education program in the School of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Studies, the club also allows Kent State students to work closely with the parents and guardians of their children, fostering comprehensive engagement a...

What do stilts, steelpan, and Spring have in common? The Trinidad and Tobago celebration of Carnival! Over the Spring semester, associate professor of ethnomusicology Dr. Janine Tiffe and School of Music alumnus Jennalee Quillen participated in the Advanced Pan Fellowship program. The program was held at the University of Trinidad and Tobago during Carnival season. The Carnival Immersion course was held completely “in the field,” which gave Dr. Tiffe and Quillen first-hand experience with steelpan groups in the very place the instrument originated. Jennalee Quillen first met professo...

������ earned first-place honors in the annual Campus Race to Zero Waste, a nationwide college campus recycling competition.Kent State placed first in the large campus division for Food Organics waste, for diverting more food waste than any other large-size university in the competition. Melanie Knowles, manager of sustainability at Kent State, said the university looks broadly at food waste reduction and other waste reduction and recycling strategies.“That starts with University Culinary Services minimizing the creation of food waste. Then edible excess food is donated to ...

Two Ph.D. candidates from ������, Beau Shaniuk and Dana Oleskiewicz, who study gender and LGBTQ+ issues, are working to shed light on the misconceptions and challenges faced by the transgender community. Spectrum News anchor Taylor Bruck spoke to Shaniuk and Oleskiewicz in her report on the rise of anti-trans rhetoric in the United States currently.In the report, Shaniuk and Oleskiewicz provide a historical context for the transgender experience and discuss the challenges the community faces in light of the increasing number of anti-trans bills being introduced across the countr...