Ohio Gov. John Kasich has appointed a new trustee to the 5XÉçÇø Board of Trustees. Kasich named Shawn M. Riley of Gates Mills, Ohio, to a nine-year term as a trustee. Riley’s appointment began May 17, 2016, and ends May 16, 2025. Riley serves as president-elect of McDonald Hopkins LLC and will become president of the firm on Oct. 1, 2016. He will oversee 140 attorneys at six office locations. Currently, he leads the firm’s Cleveland office. Riley joined McDonald Hopkins in 1995 and has served in a variety of roles, including founder and head of the firm’s Business Restructurin...
Team will present integrated marketing campaign to V8®+Energy brand team For the first time, a team of 5XÉçÇø students and alumni will compete as finalists in the Collegiate Effie Competition later this month. The students – Ellie Schering, ’17, of Malvern, Ohio; Emily Wahl, ’16, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Matt Varga, ’16, of Canal Fulton, Ohio – are all advertising majors within Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. They earned finalist status for the integrated marketing campaign for V8®+Energy they worked on throughout the 2016 Spring Semester. The nationa...
Elizabeth Z. Bartz, President and CEO of State and Federal Communications, has provided a $30,000 endowment to 5XÉçÇø at Trumbull, in Warren, Ohio, to provide scholarships for graduating seniors from Howland High School. Ms. Bartz graduated from Howland High School in Warren 40 years ago, and enrolled at the KSU Trumbull Campus that fall, where she attended for two years before completing her Journalism studies at the 5XÉçÇø main campus in Kent, Ohio in 1980. She explains why she endowed this scholarship… “In honor of my 40-year graduation anniversary from H...
Graduates from the School of Communication Studies will now have an easier way to stay connected to the school thanks to the launch of the COMMunicator, an electronic newsletter. The e-newsletter will provide readers with school news, alumni and student success stories, updates on faculty research and news relating to the field of communication studies. The e-newsletter will be delivered to inboxes quarterly. The COMMunicator will be sent to the email address currently on file for each graduate. Alumni are encouraged to make sure their contact information is updated by visiting www.kent.edu...
The School of Art's newly completed Center for the Visual Arts celebrated its grand opening on May 6. A large crowd filled the building lobby for the opening ceremony, which was followed by tours, live music, student exhibitions and a keynote lecture by visiting artist Mel Chin. Watch the video, which excerpts opening remarks by Beverly Warren (Kent State president), John Crawford-Spinelli (College of the Arts dean), Christine Havice (School of Art director) and Dennis Eckart (Board of Trustees chair): In a recent editorial, Kent's Record Courier praised the Center f...
Filmmaker Richard Myers (emeritus professor) and Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh (School of Art alumnus) will be subjects of retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland and Akron Art Museum. "Richard Myers: Aberrations" and "Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia" will run at MOCA Cleveland May 27 - August 28, while "Myopia" also spans a second, complementary exhibition at Akron Art Museum, open May 28 - August 28. The Akron Art Museum will be selling signed and numbered Mothersbaugh prints as part of a fundraiser. These prints were produced here at the School of Art by Prof...
Recognizing the financial strength of the university and the long-term responsible management of university resources, the 5XÉçÇø Board of Trustees recently approved a $686 million operating budget for the university’s eight-campus system for fiscal year 2017 (July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017). The budget recognizes the importance of affordability as well as the need to provide a high-quality educational environment and adequate resources for the success of all students. Priorities in the new budget include investments in student financial aid, investments in academic programs, compe...
Kent State at Salem held its annual nursing convocation and pinning ceremony at The Links at Firestone Farms, during which 48 students received their nursing pins and recited the nursing pledge. All are receiving degrees this year through the bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) program on the Salem campus. Dr. Mary Lou Ferranto, coordinator of the BSN program at Salem, presented the 2015 class of graduates, while nursing faculty members presented various awards and the students’ pins. Special guests included Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of the Kent State Salem Campus, and Dr. Barbara Broome, dea...
5XÉçÇø at East Liverpool held its annual nursing pinning ceremony May 10, during which 34 students were recognized for receiving degrees this year through the associate degree in nursing (ADN) program. Dr. Christina Riter, academic program director for the ADN program, presented the 2016 class of graduates, while nursing faculty members presented the students’ pins. Special guests included Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of the Kent State East Liverpool Campus, and Linda Warino, executive director of the Ohio Nurses Association, District 3. Warino served as the keynote speaker and also...
Commencement ceremonies were held May 13 for the Kent State Salem Campus. Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of the Kent State Columbiana County Campuses, presided over the event, along with Dr. Celeste Oprean, assistant dean for the Salem Campus. The keynote speaker was Rep. Timothy Ginter, State Representative for the 5th Ohio House District. Student speakers included Lisa Kesseg of the Insurance Studies program and Devyn Rothbrust of the Horticulture program. Nearly 400 degrees were awarded this semester between the Kent State Salem and East Liverpool campuses. ...