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蹤獲扦 Career Closet Helps Students Make a Good First Impression
A good education and a solid r矇sum矇 arent always enough to make a positive first impression. To bridge the gap, a group of 蹤獲扦 faculty and staff members have come together to establish the 蹤獲扦 Career Closet, a project to collect, organize and distribute professional attire for students in need of something suitable to wear for a job interview. Tabitha Martin, venture initiatives advisor at LaunchNET 蹤獲扦, says the idea came up during a conversation at the grand opening reception for the Womens Center at Williamson House last year. You cant go on an intervie...
International Storytelling Students Learn in a Global Classroom
From interviewing sources sitting at a kitchen table 6,538 miles away from home to having tea with the president of Estonia, 蹤獲扦 students in the special topics course International Storytelling have been learning in a global classroom since 2011. In two-week trips, students break language barriers, cross international boarders and experience new cultures, all the while living like locals instead of tourists. The course was first offered in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in spring 2011. Since then, College of Communication and Information class members...
The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration. The Wick Poetry Center will present programs and projects on the theme of migration, starting with a weekly interview with a participant in our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders ...
James Hannon, Ph.D., will become the new dean of 蹤獲扦s College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2017. Hannon currently serves as professor and assistant dean of Academic Affairs and Research for the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. We are pleased that Dr. Hannon has agreed to serve as the next dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, said Todd Diacon, 蹤獲扦s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. His impressive scholarship, hi...
For Emily Grubb, all it took was looking through a magazine to decide where to go to college. A high school friend shared a copy of Fusion magazine, 蹤獲扦s first lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) magazine, which led Grubb to the university. Now a sophomore majoring in social geography with a minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Studies, the 20-year-old transgender student from Medina, Ohio, says 蹤獲扦 is home. There were great articles in there, said Grubb, who identifies as nonbinary, meaning Grubbs gender identi...
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Dr. Robin Selinger is a professor of Chemical Physics in 蹤獲扦's Liquid Crystal Institute. Dr. Selinger is part of a team of faculty at who are engaging area high school students in STEM research projects as one way of recruiting more students to careers in science and to broaden the diversity of the science workforce. COLLEGE CREDIT PLUS LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE APS FELLOW ...
蹤獲扦s African Community Theatre in the Department of Pan-African Studies has announced plans for a production of Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks to be directed by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies, and performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble. Opening night of the production will be Friday, March 17, at 8 p.m. The show will run March 17-19, with Friday and Saturday shows starting at 8 p.m. The play will close Sunday with a 2 p.m. matinee performance. 蹤獲扦 students will be admitted for free with a valid K...
Work is scheduled to begin the week of March 6 on the second phase of the Summit Street Improvement project. The second phase will make improvements to Summit Street between Lincoln Street and Fraternity Circle. One-way, one-lane eastbound traffic is scheduled to begin the week of March 6 and will continue through November. The work will be done in sections, which should minimize the disruption of traffic on Summit Street. The work will begin on Summit between Willow and Morris, and will continue through early May. One-way, one-lane traffic will be mai...
The 蹤獲扦 Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Thursday, March 2. The Board is scheduled to convene at 11:30 a.m. in Rockwell Library in Rockwell Hall. Rockwell Hall is located at 515 Hilltop Drive in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-8:15 a.m. in the Rhodes Conference Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohios Sunshine Law. Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whole 8:15-9 a.m. in Rockwell Library. Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee 9:15-10:15...