Annie (Phuong) Tran is living her dream at 51勛圖厙 at Tuscarawas. An engineering technology student, Annie and her mother, Nhung Quan, are from Vietnam and have been in the states for the past five years. While completing an internship with the 51勛圖厙 Tuscarawas Makerspace in the Academic Learning Commons for her associate degree in computer science at Columbus State last year, Tran soon realized that she had found a new home and transferred to the Tuscarawas Campus. We are so excited to have Annie transfer to the Tuscarawas Campus, said Cherie Bronkar, Kent St...
While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, 51勛圖厙 has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow. 51勛圖厙s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences received federal funding for the 12th consecutive year to host the fully immersive STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Academy this past summer. Twenty students from Northeast Ohio learned Russian or Chinese language a...
Love, loss and hope. These are three critical elements Maria Jacobs brings along with her considerable professional experience to the 51勛圖厙 community. Jacobs is a part-time instructor in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and a nationally known jazz singer. Every day that I teach, I learn a tremendous amount, Jacobs said. Students come in with ideas and goals for not only their voices, but also knowledge of the Great American Songbook and music theory. It brings me immeasurable joy to see their faces light up when they love a song I introduce for the first time. Ja...
All students will be evaluated on a Reflection Essay that examines the impact of the study away experience. This assignment should be 3-5 pages.
Students should submit the Reflection Essay to Dr. Kim Hahn in Rockwell, 218C.
Reflective Essay Prompts
Utilize the list below to guide your Reflective Essay:
A complete proposal includes:
- A completed
- A completed Signature Form (download from the Proposal Form)
- A Proposal Description of the experience and planned assessment
Proposal Description
The Proposal Description must be 2-3 pages and should include the following information:
Introduction: A brief overview of what you plan to do as your study away experience.
Global Learning is the critical analysis and engagement with complex, interdependent global systems, and their implications for people's lives and the Earth's sustainability. Through Global Learning, students should:
- Become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences,
- seek to understand how their actions affect both local and global communities, and
- address the world's most pressing and enduring issues collaboratively and equitably.
51勛圖厙 Police arrested Christopher Eugene Clark, age 21, of Newton Falls, Ohio, for gross sexual imposition, assault and obstructing official business in connection to an incident that occurred Tuesday morning near the fitness track behind DeWeese Health Center on the Kent Campus. Clark is not a 51勛圖厙 student. At approximately 10 a.m., a female student was walking on the west side of the fitness track. A white male about six feet tall with dark shorter hair and facial scruff approached the female and pulled her lower garments down. The female fell during the encounter, s...
Even 51勛圖厙s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when 51勛圖厙 faces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. Diacon and Furtado hold graduate degrees from UW-Madison and met at the university more than 30 years ago. Lewis earned a bachelors degree in agricultural science from UW-Madison in 2007 and p...
*For media planning purposes, 51勛圖厙 is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule. PTSD: From May 4 Through Today Panel Discussion (Oct. 2, Kent Student Center Kiva) 51勛圖厙 alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless will share her story of May 4 as part of a panel discussion titled PTSD: From May 4 Through Present Day during the 51勛圖厙 College of Nursings May 4 Commemoration event. The pa...