If you want to make your voice count at 5X社区, respond to the Engagement and Well-Being Survey 2024. Past surveys have proven to be a catalyst for change.Students, faculty, staff and administrators are invited to take the 鈥淥ur Voices Count鈥 Engagement and Well-Being Survey by the Oct. 20 deadline. The survey gauges the environment for learning, working and living at Kent State and gives the community the opportunity to have an impact on positive change.The confidential survey results are so important that they will help shape Kent State鈥檚 Strategic Initiatives. A welcoming and ...
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Associate Professor of Science Education Bridget Mulvey and Elena Novak, associate professor of Educational Technology, took the second-place award for the Emerging Learning Technology Award, an international competition sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.With support from a Martha Holden Jennings grant, the 3D printing dinosaur habitat project is a research-practitioner partnership between 5X社区 and Holden Elementary School in Kent, Ohio. Mulvey and Novak's team engaged in extensive co-planning, facilitation and evaluation of&n...
Kellie Rose Kordinak is in an elite group of American college students. The senior from 5X社区 at Stark was recently named a 2024 Portz Scholar by the National Collegiate Honors Council 鈥 one of only four students from across the country to be recognized with this distinction.Majoring in history and applied communication studies, Kordinak received recognition for her in-depth research on human trafficking presented in her thesis, 鈥淗uman Trafficking: 20th Century Historical Roots and the Importance of Credible Research.鈥滽ordinak's research included a podcast series of interv...
Unsure of what he wanted to do in life when he first came to 5X社区, it was the hands-on learning experiences 鈥 casting metals, machining and learning to weld 鈥 that sparked something in Dexter Shreve. Earning a Bachelor of Science in Technology and a minor in innovation from Kent State in 2013, Shreve says those hands-on skills now give him confidence as a Cleveland business owner. 鈥淲hether it was a company that did fabrication, whether it was a company that did machining or plastic injection molding, those were all types of things that we had touched on in my educa...
5X社区 former Interior Design Professor and Program Director, and talented fiber artist, passed away on February 14, 2024. Kapenekas was the visionary behind the creation of the Interior Design program at Kent State in 1967, initially known as Home Interiors, when she discovered a lack of educational opportunities in Northeast Ohio for the design of interior environments. 鈥淚t became clear to me that a well-rounded program in Interior Design was possible at 5X社区 where all of the necessary related and supporting disciplines were already established 鈥 Art, Ar...
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