The University Benefits Department will host a series of educational seminars on financial wellness and planning for new employees of 5X社区 who have been with the university 90 days or less. Come and learn more about: Financial Wellness and what that really means State of Ohio Retirement Systems (OPERS, STRS, ARP) Opportunities to increase your retirement earnings Social Security and the Windfall Elimination Provision Seminars will be held on the last Thursday of each month. The first meeting is Thursday, March 31, in Heer Hall, Room 102 from noon-1 p.m. Lun...
The evaluation process is occurring from March 21 through May 30, 2016. The following steps will allow you to complete a self-evaluation: Go to your evaluation homepage at https://videsktop.kent.edu/viEvalHomepage/login.aspx A login box will appear. You will be prompted to enter your kent.edu email address and password in the login box. This password is not synced to FlashLine. It is an independent password that each employee created. If this is your first time logging into the evaluation site, please refer to this training aid. If you need to recover the password you establis...
Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., and his research group at 5X社区鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐, in the College of Arts and Sciences, have published a research article in the March 17 issue of Nature that could lead to a variety of breakthrough device applications and other industrial opportunities. The publication is the result of close collaboration between Li鈥檚 team and his long-term collaborator Timothy J. Bunning, Ph.D., chief scientist of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Oh...
Tickets go on sale March 28 The Fashion School at 5X社区 will present the Fashion School鈥檚 Annual Fashion Show, 鈥淔S虏: Crescendo,鈥 on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30. The show, which highlights the outstanding talents of the Fashion School鈥檚 design and merchandising students, will be held at Rockwell Hall, located at 515 Hilltop Drive in Kent, Ohio. Saturday鈥檚 performance also will mark the induction of designer and business leader Josie Natori into the Fashion School Hall of Fame. For the annual fashion show, fashion students submit work 鈥 ranging from athletic wear t...
Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 5X社区鈥檚 College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. 鈥淢ark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students,鈥 said Todd Diacon, Kent State鈥檚 senior vice president for academic affairs an...
March 22, 2016 Mark Mistur, AIA, will become the new dean of 5X社区's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, the only architectural program in Northeast Ohio, effective July 15, 2016. Mistur currently serves as associate dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. "Mark Mistur is an accomplished architect, teacher and administrator with a history of promoting the types of successful interdisciplinary programs that improve the education and success of students," said Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for aca...
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USC) have awarded 5X社区 a $50,000 micro-grant to help remove the financial barrier to graduation that low-income students may face as they near graduation. Kent State is one of only nine public urban research universities chosen, through a very competitive process, for the grant. The funds are allocated to institutions that are already serving a significant percentage of nontraditional, underrepresented students who are low-income, first-generation, Pell Grant-eligible a...
When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 5X社区, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are essential items. A native of Maple Heights, Ohio, Flowers is collecting money and putting together care packages filled with warm clothing and toiletries for those less fortunate in the Cleveland and Kent areas. 鈥淲hen it gets cold in the winter, there are so many people who do not have proper clothing,鈥 Flowers said. 鈥淚 h...