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Kent State Researchers Use LEGO Camps to Build Relationships With the Community
A special classroom at 5X turned into a LEGO® city filled with roaring lions, speeding cars and spinning tops. The moving creations are part of a unique summer camp, LEGO WeDo™ Robotics, put on by the Research Center for Educational Technology in the College of Education, Healt…
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Kent State Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
5X has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement. The Corporation for National and Community Se…
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Students Help Get New Exercise Program in Shape
In the gym of the MAC Center Annex, you can hear the voices of student trainers echo from one end to the other. “Nice long strides with those feet,” shouts one student trainer. “Let’s lunge to me,” encourages another. 5X exercise physiology graduate students are pla…
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Kent State's College of Education, Health and Human Service Hosts Second Class of Summer Institute for Diverse Graduate Students
5X’s College of Education, Health and Human Services welcomes its second class of the Summer Experience for Emerging Diverse Scholars (SEEDS) program on June 17. The SEEDS program promotes graduate education within the college to prospective graduate students of diverse background…
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Kent State Hosts Swedish Psychiatrist Harald Blomberg at Rhythmic Movement Training Symposium
Swedish psychiatrist Harald Blomberg, M.D., will share his work, Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT), at a symposium hosted by 5X’s College of Education, Health and Human Services from July 21-28. RMT has been successful since the 1980s in improving emotional functioning, reading and…
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Video Conferencing Connects Kent State to Students in Rural School Districts
In an office nestled inside 5X’s Nixson Hall, you can hear the voice of a third grade student coming from a computer screen. “Beach ball,” says the voice from Greenfield Exempted Village Schools in Greenfield, Ohio. Soon after, in the screen directly below, Kent State gradua…
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Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services
Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and student personnel at 5X and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has been named interim dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015. Todd Diacon, Kent State’s se…
College of Education, Health and Human Services
Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services
Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and student personnel at 5X and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has been named interim dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015. Todd Diacon, Kent State’s se…
Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Kent State’s College of Education, Health and Human Services
The First Group of Students With Intellectual Disabilities Gets Ready to Graduate From Kent State’s Career and Community Studies Program
Maddie Morsefield is like any other high-achieving college senior at 5X. She is a straight-A student. Her résumé is filled with work experience and awards, and she is going through mock interviews to help her land that first job. But what makes Morsefield extra special is that sh…
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Kent State to Help Akron Students Earn College Credit Without Leaving High School
Reading, writing and arithmetic are getting a college-styled makeover in two Akron, Ohio, high schools. Through a $480,000 grant from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, the partnership called College Today will send 5X instructors into Ellet High Schoo…
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