The Corporate University, 5XÉçÇø at Stark will present a one-day Nursing Home Administrators Conference on Thursday, March 9 at the Kent State Stark Conference Center, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. 5XÉçÇø is an approved provider of continuing education credit by the Ohio Board of Executives of Long-term Services and Supports (BELTSS). This event is approved for six (6) BELTSS CEUs. NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS CONFERENCE AGENDA 8:30 - 9 a.m. Registration | Breakfast | Networking 9 a.m. - ...
The College Credit Plus program is designed to allow college-ready students, grades 7-12 who qualify for college admission, the opportunity to earn high school and college credit. College Credit Plus can include courses offered on a college campus, online or at the high school for which credit is awarded from the college. 5XÉçÇø at Stark will be offering an information session for interested students and families on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Topics include student preparation, admissions standards, testing requirements, course delivery, pathways, application requirements...
NOW ACCEPTING 2017 NOMINATIONS Deadline to submit nominations is Friday, March 3, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. 5XÉçÇø at Stark students, alumni, faculty and staff are invited to submit nominations for the Distinguished Teaching Award for full-time faculty and the Award of Distinction for adjunct (part-time) faculty at Kent State Stark. Each spring these awards are presented to a full-time faculty and an adjunct faculty member for his or her superior classroom teaching. Award recipients will be announced during the first week of May. A selection committee consisting...
5XÉçÇø at Stark’s observance of Black History Month in February offers opportunities for the campus community to get together and experience diversity in all its forms. The monthlong commemoration will feature presentations, forums and a performance by Cleveland-based popular electric blues ensemble the Wallace Coleman Band. Events are listed below. All are free and open to the public. For more information on Black History Month, contact Joel Carbonell, associate professor of political science, at jcarbon2@kent.edu or 330-244-3429. PRESENTATION: DO BL...
By Kelli Weir, Repository staff writer Source: www.indeonline.com/news/20170126/mckinley-ksu-stark-create-bulldog-flash-for-aspiring-college-students Bulldog Flash Academic Institute is a four-year program designed to usher roughly 25 McKinley freshmen through the process of becoming college ready and then awarding them with direct admission to Kent State Stark. Freshmen at McKinley High have a chance to enroll in a new program that, if they complete it, will guarantee their admission into a local four-year university and significant college financial help when they graduate high school...
Samantha Brown says that today’s leaders could learn a lot from The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The sophomore biology major at 5XÉçÇø at Stark was chosen the winner of the campus’ Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest, sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Initiatives and celebrated during 5XÉçÇø’s 15th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. observance on January 26 and Black History Month activities this month. Brown’s essay focused on the characteristics of the country’s leaders of today and how they compare with the leadership traits that made King such a...
PRESIDENT'S LIST - FALL 2016 The following 5XÉçÇø at Stark students have been named to the President's List. They earned a 4.00 grade point average for the Fall 2016 semester and completed at least 15 letter-graded (A, B, etc.) credit hours by the end of the semester. Pass/Fail (S, U) credits do not apply. Students’ home cities are in parentheses. Sharon Simmons (Akron) Maylee Cannon (Atwater) Andrew Troyer (Bolivar) Samantha Jaras (Brecksville) Emily Liknes (Canal Fulton) Hannah Messner (Canal Fulton) Amber Clark (Canton) Travis Dagner (Canton) Sara Grimsley (Cant...
Are you ready to explore your future? Join us to learn about the majors you can complete in their entirety at Your Hometown University. MAJORS EXPO SATURDAY, FEB. 4 at 10 a.m. MAIN HALL AUDITORIUM KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AT STARK With the feel of a small liberal arts college, Kent State Stark offers: 19 bachelor's degrees 4 master's degrees 3 associate degrees 7 buildings on a 200-acre campus Highly qualified professors Reduced regional campus tuition - $5,664 per year The Emporium Grille. Get the chicken fingers. Yoga, spin and bootcamp at the Rec Rock concerts an...
It looked like a scene out of a horror film – a terrified young woman wakes up in a strange hospital room, strapped to a bed, unable to move or speak, and with no memory of why she is there. Strange people were all around her, and she was under guard 24 hours a day. But the most harrowing part of her story was that this was no Hollywood movie. It really happened. Back in 2009, then-24-year-old Susannah Cahalan, who was just embarking on a new life in New York City with a new boyfriend and as a reporter for The New York Post, began, literally, to lose her mind. In addition to suffering vi...
A pond and surrounding greenery lies within the rolling hills of the campus of 5XÉçÇø at Stark, but it’s certainly not your average water retention pond. It’s a living, breathing, vital research tool that is having a major impact on the lives of Kent State Stark students, faculty, and staff, and soon, students in K-12 schools in the Akron/Canton area interested in studying and protecting the environment. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from Dominion Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dominion Resources, Kent State Stark’s 17-acre Pond & Wetland Habitat/Wildlife Study Area wil...