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 鈥渓ay of the land,鈥 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 黑料网鈥檚 Community Geography Lab in McGilvery Hall on the Kent Campus, two classes of ECED students f...
POV shares insights from the 黑料网 community on important topics. In this essay for Kent State Today, 黑料网 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 鈥渃enters of excellence鈥 and how they鈥檙e rooted in Kent State鈥檚 history.The idea of 鈥渃enters of excellence鈥 has entered Ohio's higher education conversation, and I welcome it. Not as a provocation, but as an opportunity. Because if we鈥檙e going to talk about which Ohio universities represe...