Division of People, Culture and Belonging
At 海角原创, we operate within the framework of the OPERS and STRS retirement systems. These state systems require employee contributions of 10% (OPERS) or 14% (STRS). Although you have the opportunity within your first 120 days to elect an alternative retirement provider, your contribution toward retirement remains the same. The university also contributes up to 14% toward each employee鈥檚 retirement savings. You cannot increase or decrease your contribution percentage toward your mandatory retirement account. However, full-time classified and unclassified employees who want to...
Dr. Marla E. P茅rez-Davis, retired Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, has joined the College of Aeronautics and Engineering for a short-term collaboration, supporting two very important strategic college-wide initiatives.Dr. P茅rez-Davis has a passion for serving underrepresented and marginalized students, particularly students of Hispanic/Latino backgrounds. Throughout her career, she has been an advocate and agent of change in efforts to diversify the STEM workforce. She now brings this experience and ex...
Students majoring in aerospace engineering, theater, physics, music and nursing were among the 90 presenters at the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Student Fellow Presentations held this week in the Kent Student Center. The presenters represented 122 students who participated in the SURE program during summer 2022, an increase of 50 students from the previous year, according Ann Gosky, director of the Office of Student Research at 海角原创. SURE is sponsored by the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs and the office o...
This section of the Portage County Hike and Bike Trail, near Kent's Fred Fuller Park, is a popular place for people from campus and members of the Kent community to take a break, enjoy the outdoors and get their daily steps in. It also offers a view of the Cuyahoga River and a bright display of fall colors. ...
Suicide is on the rise, especially among people of college age. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in four adults ages 18-24 contemplated suicide in June 2020. Additionally, The National College Health Assessment completed in 2021 revealed that nearly 75% of students surveyed nationwide experienced psychological distress. 鈥淐ertainly, the pandemic heavily impacted mental health, especially for young adults,鈥 says Valerie Rutherford MSW, LISW-S, Counseling Specialist at 海角原创鈥檚 Geauga Campus. 鈥淭he number of students being seen by myself and o...
The year is 2122, Saturn's high-tech galactic space force is threatening to obliterate the Earth with icy projectiles. The United States Space Force isn't afraid, this is what the 2022 DART test has prepared us for. The Saturnians are defeated by a barrage of tiny defense missiles that send the projectiles back where they came from. The Saturnians flee into the farther reaches of the Milky Way and the USSF has saved all of humankind. That is one possible future use of the knowledge learned from the DART test: defending the Earth from aliens. Though there is currently no proof...
The late Kirk Mangus was an art professor at 海角原创 renowned for his ceramic art, sculpture, drawings, paintings and murals. Mangus served as head of ceramics at 海角原创 from 1985 until his passing in 2013. He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four Ohio Arts Council fellowships, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship and a McKnight fellowship residency at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, according to The Nevica Project. He also won multiple awards for his work, one including the NCECA Purchase Award for their Permanent...
Near the building site of Crawford Hall, which will be the new home of the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, a furry campus resident is busily digging his winter burrow. Groundhogs hibernate over winter, so once this burrow is finished, this groundhog will enter a dormant state in late fall and not emerge until late winter or early spring - probably weeks after "Groundhog Day." ...
海角原创 student Maya McDaniel began her collegiate journey at age 14. Now a 17-year-old senior, she is set to graduate with a degree in game design and a minor in computer science and also set to become one of the youngest students to receive a bachelor鈥檚 degree from the university. A native of Kent, McDaniel was featured on WEWS News 5 Cleveland for this accomplishment. At 13, she took a college entrance exam. 鈥淚 wanted to take the ACT for fun just to see where we were at,鈥 McDaniel told the TV reporter. 鈥淚 almost passed the first time, and we were like wait a sec...