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The ������ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, June 6. The Board is scheduled to convene at 1:45 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of University Library.   Trustees will retire into executive session from 8-10 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”   Board committees will meet as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 10:15-11:15 a.m. in the Urban Conference Room. Audit ...

Anything your heart desires will come to you, especially if you put in the work. Just ask Sarah Heavner.  Heavner, who is majoring in communication and minoring in theatre, recently earned an internship with Walt Disney World for this coming fall. While there, she will dress and play the role of a costumed character on one of the largest stages in the world, Disney World.  At LaBrae High School, she dreamed of becoming an actor. Even though she had spent years participating in front of crowds in cheer, dance, and gymnastics, she lacked confidence to act on stage.  “It has...

Kent State at Salem held its annual nursing convocation and pinning ceremony during which 23 students received their nursing pins and recited the nursing pledge. All are receiving degrees this year through the Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) program on the Salem campus. Dr. Mary Lou Ferranto, coordinator of the BSN program at Salem, presented the 2018 class of graduates, while nursing faculty members presented various awards and the students’ pins. Special guests included Dr. David Dees, dean of the Kent State Salem Campus and Dr. Celeste Oprean, assistant dean. Several students were r...

A mix of faculty and students from the ������ School of Communication Studies (COMM) will present their latest research during the 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) May 24 to 28 in Prague. With more than 80 percent of its global communication faculty presenting papers and several other professors participating in a range of proceedings, the school's faculty members are living the conference theme, "Voices," by using theirs to prove their impact on the communication studies industry. All COMM-specific sessions are l...

After attending a conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology last spring in Santa Fe, Dr. Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome and Professor Mokros Natale decided to collaborate in creating a course. They share a background and love for interdisciplinary study and wanted to create a course that would offer Geauga Campus students the opportunity to experience the intellectual richness provided by interdisciplinary study. These natural connection points between disciplines support learning how to transfer and connect concepts−skills that support their lifelong learning process−and add value to...