An employer can provide certain benefits to its employees on a tax-exempt basis. Those benefits can also be extended to spouses and dependents of those employees on the same tax-exempt basis.
Yes. Kent State’s health care plan was established as a cafeteria plan under IRS regulations. This permits employees to have deductions for health care premiums taken from their pay on a pre-tax basis. IRS regulations for cafeteria plans do not allow employee premiums for domestic partner benefits to be taken on a pre-tax basis and must be treated as a taxable benefit. Since this is a federally taxable benefit, you cannot use pre-tax dollars to pay for it.
To apply for domestic partner benefits, an Affidavit of Domestic Partnership form (PDF) must be completed, notarized, and submitted to the Benefits Office along with required supporting documentation and applicable enrollment forms.
Generally, there are three times when you can add your partner to your benefits:
Kent State’s innovative Animation Game Design (AGD) program – offered through the College of Applied and Technical Studies at the Kent and Tuscarawas campuses – climbed three spots on The Princeton Review’s 2026 list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Game Design.The AGD program now ranks 30th nationally. On the list of Midwest regional rankings, the program moved up one spot to the 7th-place position.The Princeton Review's lists of top schools for game design are based on more than 40 data points derived from the company's annual survey of administrators at more than 150 institutions off...
ºÚÁÏÍø will grant domestic partner benefits to registered same gender and opposite gender partners of university employees.
ºÚÁÏÍø’s College of Education, Health and Human Services (EHHS) has awarded two prestigious, endowed professorships that reaffirm the university’s long-standing commitment to leadership in education while positioning the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies (TLC) as a leader in research, external funding and community partnerships within higher education. Karl Kosko, Ph.D., has been awarded the Rebecca Tolle Professorship for Leadership in Education, with a focus on educational leadership through research and grant development. Lisa Borgerding, Ph.D., has bee...
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A team of students representing the Animation Game Design (AGD) program at Kent State Tuscarawas walked away with the Audience Choice award at the recently-held Short.Sweet.Film.Fest at the Atlas Cinema in Cleveland.The filmmakers included students Morgan Campbell, Rae Lumley, Damianna Johnson, Carly Butler, Mya Coblentz, Quinten Jones and Madalina Chiveri. Voice actors were Payton Martin and Rocco Grassi (a psychology major).The short animation film is the result of an AGD senior capstone project and was submitted for judging at the film festival by Justin McCrea, associate lectur...
