Noted educator and award-winning author Bettina Love, Ph. D., shared her story and her message of improving education through abolitionist teaching, Black joy and anti-racism in the the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Thursday. Love, who is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, was the keynote speaker of 做厙輦⑹'s 2022 Anti-Racism Conference. To learn more about Love and this conference, visit: /antiracismefforts/keynote-speaker ...
Debt Management & Loan Repayment Workshop
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Educators Conference is Culmination of Ascendium Grant Project 做厙輦⑹ hosted the Degree Pathway Summit at the 做厙輦⑹ Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Kent on Friday, Oct. 7, when educators from around the region met to discuss how bilateral degree pathways complemented the Ohio Guaranteed Transfer Pathway system. In Fall 2019, the Ascendium Education Group awarded 做厙輦⑹ a $1.09 million grant to partner with Columbus State Community College, Eastern Gateway Community College, and Lorain County Community College to develop transfer pathways that stream...
Biodiversity is a common ecological term, but how many of us truly grasp the gravity of its power to sustain life at every level? If you are a student of Josephine Naji, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology at 做厙輦⑹ Geauga, you wont just learn about the concept through reading assignments, research and lectures. Dr. Naji drives home her lessons on biological diversity with up-close, in-person, hands-on field trips out in nature and among the prehistoric exhibits at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It is when students are learning to identify ephemeral spring wildflowers at...
College of the Arts
做厙輦⑹ School of Art senior lecturer, Juliann Dorff, has been named The Ohio Art Educator of the Year for her outstanding contributions and commitment to art education. The OAEA Art Educator of the Year award is given to art educators who have previously received other OAEA awards within their division. Recipients have exhibited dedication to OAEA and art education over their years in the field. Juliann Dorff is the former president of the Special Needs in Art Education Interest Group of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) and currently is a senior lectur...
做厙輦⑹s inaugural Anti-Racism Conference kicked off Oct. 6 with several hundred students, faculty and staff taking part. The conference, which organizers intend to make an annual event, featured a series of discussions, roundtable talks, workshops, art and performances, exploring key themes, including racism in the workplace and classroom, and how members of the 做厙輦⑹ community can be empowered to make a change. The conference began with a three-hour teach-in presented by 做厙輦⑹ faculty and staff, aimed at raising awareness and empowering ...
Steve Sefner, local author and former 做厙輦⑹ sports announcer, appeared at the 做厙輦⑹ Bookstore on Oct. 1 to promote his 2022 book recounting the tale of the 2001-2002 做厙輦⑹ mens basketball season. That season was 做厙輦⑹s first and only appearance in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, marking the greatest single-season record in Mid-American Conference history. Twenty years later, Sefner, the play-by-play announcer for 做厙輦⑹ basketball that year, wrote The Golden Dream to commemorate what is considered one of the greatest Cinderella stories ...
Volunteers from Main Street Kent decorated downtown sidewalks and the Main Street bridge in advance of Rainbow Weekend, October 7 and 8. For the complete schedule of events, including the Rainbow Run, benefiting the 做厙輦⑹ LGBTQ+ Emergency Fund, visit: /lgbtq/rainbow-run-5k and https://www.mainstreetkent.org/events/kent-rainbow-weekend/. ...