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Until their recent retirements, Candace Perkins Bowen and John Bowen, along with Mark Goodman, were the heart and soul of the Center for Scholastic Journalism. Combined, this trio has contributed more than 140 years of service to scholastic journalism. Each will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journalism Education Association (JEA) at this fall’s National High School Journalism Convention in Philadelphia.The Bowens began their high school teaching careers in the early 1970s, Candace in St. Charles, Illinois and John in Lakewood, Ohio. John, a Kent State graduate, also taught at K...

A 5XÉçÇø student honored the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a display of 2,977 American flags on the campus student green this week.Mark Morrison, 21, a junior accounting major and 5XÉçÇø Honors College student, organized the memorial to uphold the promise to "Never Forget" and promote national unity. "I wasn't alive to remember the day this tragedy struck," Morrison told Kent State Today. "The vast majority of students on campus weren't born yet either."Born in 2003, Morrison said he feels a personal connection to 9/11 through his fami...

A new degree program titled the Master of Arts in Journalism Education received its final approval from Ohio’s Department of Higher Education this summer. Since 2007, we have been training journalism educators in a concentration of the Master of Arts degree in Media and Journalism. Starting this fall, students are pursuing a standalone degree in journalism education.This shift from a concentration to a standalone degree might seem minor but it gives our graduate program more focus and flexibility. Ours is the only master’s program solely dedicated to journalism education.Students are no longer...