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Kee’Auna Cherry’s aspirations as a child were to be the best she could be, even if it was only to make someone else smile. “If I make someone smile, then I’m doing something right. But,” she said, “it was also my dream to obtain a college degree.” Graduating from 5X���� at Stark with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies in December 2016, Cherry has discovered the awesome power of a dream because of her experiences here. “What made me decide to come to Kent State Stark was the atmosphere the campus provided, the passion the professors have for their students, and be...

5X����’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. Kent State students will be admitted for free with a valid K...

Familiar Face Kim Hahn Associate Director and Associate Professor School of Fashion Design and Merchandising Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Teach freshman core course, Fashion Visuals, and work as an associate director of the Fashion School. My main job as associate director is coordinating all the study-away programs. WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: August 2011 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: University of Wisconsin-Stout LIKES MOST ABOUT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: My colleagues and students ATTRACTION TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY AS AN EMPLOYER: Great reput...

5X����'s Office of the University Registrar has unveiled the Visual Schedule Builder, a new tool to help students plan their semester. The tool allows students to select the most optimal schedule based on their academic and personal needs, considering factors such as work, activities, etc.  The Visual Schedule Builder allows for the selection of several courses within a term and displays different scheduling options based on each section’s class meeting information. Students receive scheduling options that are conflict-free. This new tool will save students time, ma...

The 5X���� 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 Ohio’s “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...

Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, was co-organizer of a panel titled “Crowdsourcing approaches for knowledge organization systems: Crowd collaboration or crowd work” on Oct. 18, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-organizers and presenters: Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Timothy Bowman, University of Turku, Finland; Juho Hamari, University of Tampere, Finland; Julia Bullard, The University of Texas at Austin; Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse University.) ...

5X����’s Institute for Excellence (I4E) placed eighth in HR.com's 2017 LEAD (Leadership Excellence and Development) Award’s category for a University Certificate Program with Emphasis on Leadership and Organizational Development. Recognizing excellence in leadership development programs, the LEAD Awards celebrate the best applications and internally designed leadership development programs from organizations around the world, including colleges and universities, that provide exceptional leadership or human resources development programs at all levels. Past winners hav...

New/Familiar Face Michael Dearworth Grants Coordinator Department of Physics Kent Campus JOB DESCRIPTION: Provides support for the development and/or administration of 5X���� grant activity by assisting faculty and administrators in obtaining and administering grants and complying with university policy and agency regulations.  WORKED AT KENT STATE SINCE: January 2017 EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: Prior to my current position, I worked in a temporary position in the College of Business Career Services Office during the summer/fall of 2...

The "Stress Management That Works" webinar series, accessible from any device with internet access, will help you to become more aware of when you are feeling stressed, as well as some easy-to-apply techniques and strategies on how to cope with the stressors in your life. Though Session 1 was previously held, you may still register and participate in Sessions 2 and 3. During Session 2 on Wednesday, March 8, at 10 a.m., we will dive deeper into understanding stress and discuss why there is a need to have stress in our lives, good and bad types of stress and counter-productive copin...