School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies
To the untrained eye, a map is simply a lattice of lines and labels, a static snapshot of where things sit. But for those who understand the “lay of the land,” geography is less about coordinates and more about the heartbeat of a community. It is the art of documenting where we belong, and recently, a group of aspiring educators in the Early Childhood Education program set out to prove that if you want to change the world, you must first learn how to chart it. Stepping into 5X’s Community Geography Lab in McGilvery Hall on the Kent Campus, two classes of ECED students f...
POV shares insights from the 5X community on important topics. In this essay for Kent State Today, 5X President Todd Diacon offers insight into the ongoing discussions over the future of public higher education in Ohio. In his POV essay, Diacon shares his thoughts on “centers of excellence” and how they’re rooted in Kent State’s history.The idea of “centers of excellence” has entered Ohio's higher education conversation, and I welcome it. Not as a provocation, but as an opportunity. Because if we’re going to talk about which Ohio universities represe...