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The IRS recently issued the Health Savings Account contribution limits for the 2024 coverage year. Employee contributions will increase to the following: 2024 Contribution Limits  Plan type Total Contribution Limit (IRS regulated) Employer Contribution Employee Contribution Limit Single $4,150 $1,100 $3,050* Family $8,300 $2,000 $6,300* *Employees that are 55 or older can elect to contribute an additional $1000 to their Health Savings Account. What does this m...

Online final grading for Summer 2023 Full Term, Second 7 Weeks, and Summer 3 (POT 1, W2, S3) begins Tuesday, Aug. 15 via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Summer 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20. Any final grades for Summer 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Summer 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Tuesday, Aug. 22.   Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To ...

����ԭ�� Employee Benefits announces Open Enrollment 2023 dates Save the date for the 2023 open enrollment period: Oct. 16 to Nov. 3, 2023. Outside of a qualifying life event, this period is the only time you may select and make changes to your 2024 coverage. Please note that all benefits-eligible employees are strongly encouraged to go through Open Enrollment as some benefits selections do not carry over without the employee's annual approval. During Open Enrollment, ����ԭ�� employees can Enroll in, change or drop medical, dental or vision pl...

The Division of Enrollment Management together with the Division of Finance and Administration developed a new process to decrease the number of students subject to schedule cancellation due to non-payment. What changed? For Fall 2023, only students with a prior semester balance of $200 or more will be subject to schedule cancellation. Previously, students with a balance of $1500 or more were subject to schedule cancellation. Fall 2023 examples: Student owes $1500 for the Fall 2023 and $0 for Summer 2023 or prior. They will not be canceled. Student owes $300 for Summer 2023 and...

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����ԭ�� at Stark has announced its Dean’s List and President’s List for the spring 2023 semester.  Requirements for the Dean’s List include a 3.40 grade point average or above for the spring 2023 semester and at least 12 letter-graded (A, B, etc.) credit hours completed by the end of the semester. President’s List criteria are a 4.00 grade point and at least 15 letter-graded credit hours completed by the end of the semester. A part-time Dean's List follows the President's and Dean's List.   SPRING 2023 PRESIDENT'S* & DEAN'S LIST The fo...

Online final grading for Summer 2023 (POT W1) begins Tuesday, Jun. 27, 2023, via FlashFAST. Grading is also now available for any Summer 2023 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is 11:59 pm on Sunday, Jul. 2. Any final grades for Summer 2023 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These Summer 2023 courses will be available in the Workflow on Tuesday, Jul. 4, 2023. Submit Final grades using Final Grades roster To submit final grades via the Final Grades roste...

  Félix Latimer is a Junior and majors in environmental and conservation biology with a concentration in environmental policy and management. During his time in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, he worked alongside Dr. Andrea Case, Ph.D., and Dr. Christopher L. Blackwood, Ph.D., studying geographical data about subspecies of lobelia across the United States. Félix is hoping to use this experiment as a reference for how research is conducted on the ground for a future career as a policy analyst on environmental issues in the Environmental Protect...

"Poetry and science are not opposites, they’re actually allies," said David Hassler, director of ����ԭ��’s Wick Poetry Center.  Hassler paraphrases American poet Jane Hirshfield, who, in 2017, contacted him to collaborate on a Poets for Science project, which is now an interactive exhibit and writing invitation housed at the Wick Poetry Center on the Kent Campus. The pair recently performed together at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit: “Truth, Trust and Hope,” in Washington, D.C.  Poetry and science, Hassler said, come together to create meani...

����ԭ�� alumna Sonia Karkare, BS ‘93, MS ‘96, has worked on three continents, served in one of the largest nonprofits in the U.S. that leads global digital transformations in the humanitarian sector, promoted women in STEM fields and worked as a professor, a public speaker and a philanthropist.   After 27 years of travel and pivoting to various international endeavors, Karkare, a native of Mumbai, India, is now back at ����ԭ�� as an adjunct faculty member with the Ambassador&...