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Kenneth Burhanna, ��������’s 2015-2016 Provost’s Fellow and assistant dean of engagement and outreach for University Libraries, is one of the 17 top managers of academic research libraries selected for UCLA’s 2016 Senior Fellows Program. This year marks the 18th year the UCLA Senior Fellows Program has been held. The program is directed by Beverly P. Lynch, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Lynch was a fellow in the first class in 1982. Since 1982, 250 academic library leaders have participated in the program. Burhanna, who is originally from Gen...

For All You Do - This Week's For You!   Stark Campus Employee Appreciation Breakfast Thursday, April 7, 2016 7 - 9 a.m. Conference Center Stark faculty and staff should RSVP by emailing Kelly Simonis at ksimonis@kent.edu. Kent Campus In special recognition of all the things you do that inspire and drive student success, the Office of the Provost and the entire �������� community would like to celebrate you with an entire week of faculty appreciation events on the Kent Campus. View the week's schedule and RSVP for Kent Campus events.   ...

�������� Day at the Cleveland Film Festival is slated for April 6 at Tower City Cinemas in downtown Cleveland. Members of the �������� community will receive a $2 discount on tickets to any film showing any day of the festival. �������� alumni, students, faculty and staff should use the code KSU to obtain the special discount. To see the films playing on �������� Day at the Cleveland Film Festival, visit www.clevelandfilm.org/schedule and select Wednesday, April 6. ��������’s own Michael Loderstedt, professor of art, is the selected artist who designed this year’s Cleve...

The spring edition of HR News Flash, the Division of Human Resources’ quarterly newsletter, is available. Check it out for the latest news and information, including: A recap of the recent State of the State diversity conference Three new faces in the Office of Compliance Employee discount tickets for the performing arts Voluntary life insurance offerings Upcoming employee recognition programs, and more You can access the spring 2016 newsletter at www.kent.edu/hr/hr-newsletter-archive.  ...

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), �������� full-time employees will receive an additional tax form. The new tax form, called the 1095-C tax form, contains important information about medical coverage offered to our employees and their dependents.  The purpose of this 1095-C tax form is to report employer-provided health insurance coverage, or "proof of coverage" to the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service granted an extension on producing and filing the 1095-C tax form.  As such, this form was not required for full-time, benefit-eligible employees to file 2015 taxe...

Visit ��������’s Office of the General Counsel’s website at www.kent.edu/generalcounsel/records. Scroll to “Records” at the bottom of the page and click on the link titled Records Destruction. You will be prompted to login with your FlashLine username and password. Your phone number and email address should load automatically. After completing the form, click submit. Once your request is processed, you will be contacted with details about how and when to proceed with destroying your records. ...

��������’s fourth annual Neuroscience Symposium will cover the latest research findings on “The Neuroscience of The Social Brain” on April 7-8 at the �������� Hotel and Conference Center located in downtown Kent, Ohio. In a keynote address on April 7 at 7:15 p.m., Jacqueline N. Crawley, Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on the use of mouse models to investigate causes and potential treatments for autism from the University of California Davis School of Medicine, will present “Preclinical Discovery of Treatments for Autism.” A reception and poster session will follow. Al...

Senior applied communication studies student Megan Carrasco will be presenting her thesis work, “The Ideal Millennial Working Woman: A Thematic Analysis of How Professional Identity, Image and Career are Constructed Online,” at the upcoming National Honors Conference. The conference is scheduled for April 1-3 in in Richmond, Indiana at Indiana University East. The conference is an opportunity for Honors students from the Mid-East Honors region to share their research. For Carrasco, the presentation will be a result of work from the past two years. “I have been writing my thesis for the p...