A clear intention to pursue social justice led Stuart Chen-Hayes, Ph.D. 鈥94, NCC, LCPC, to 糖心Vlog破解版 in 1990 to pursue a doctoral degree in counselor education. What he learned at the university 鈥 and what inspired him 鈥 significantly changed the course of his life, professionally and personally. Stuart is a professor and program coordinator of Counselor Education/School Counseling, City University of New York, Lehman College, and the author of the new book 鈥淒ouble Dads One Teen: A queer family's trailblazing life in the USA and Taiwan,鈥 DIO Press, Inc., 2019, the subject of which is t...
When Denise Harrison, Associate Lecturer in the Department of English, teaching in the Department of Pan-African Studies and the Honors College at 糖心Vlog破解版, got her idea to create an exhibit about the 鈥渃radle-to-prison鈥 pipeline for young people of color, she was already very familiar with quilting. Harrison has always sewn, and she is a former costume designer for the University of Akron School of Dance Program, where she worked for fourteen years. Three years ago, Harrison started making social activist quilts. She and some of her colleagues had written a paper on quilting a...
The Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at 糖心Vlog破解版, in partnership with the national public radio affiliate WKSU 89.7 FM and the KSU Brain Health Research Institute, will host the first of a two-part distinguished speaker series 鈥淗ow Science Can Help: Fostering Connection in a Fractured World鈥 on Dec. 5 from 7-8:30 pm in the Kiva Auditorium in the Student Center on the Kent Campus. Following two TED-style talks, Jeff St. Clair, host of WKSU鈥檚 鈥淎ll Things Considered鈥 and 鈥淓xploradio鈥, will lead a moderated discussion, after which the audience i...
National Radiologic Technology Week is held each November to recognize the date that Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the x-ray, which was Nov. 8, 1895. The annual observation helps promote the important role that medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals play in providing quality patient care and a safe healthcare environment. To help commemorate this week, rad tech faculty and students from the Salem Campus bagged 690 bags of corn, for a total of 3,657 pounds of fresh produce to be distributed through the Second Harvest Food Bank. The students also participated in a series of c...
A teen who ages out of the foster care system is eight times more likely to become homeless than to earn a bachelor鈥檚 degree. Think about that. In fact, it is rare to attend a college commencement and find many graduates who spent time in foster care as only 3% who age out of the foster care system will go on to earn a degree. Increasing the graduation rate becomes even more difficult in Ohio where the number of children in foster care is expected to increase to 19,000 by 2020 and an additional 500-plus area children have been placed in foster care as a result of parental use of opi...
What do you call a faculty member who continues to be a resource for students long after they鈥檝e left his classroom, a faculty member who oversees a food pantry for students with food insecurity, a faculty member who works across departments for the benefit of all students? This year, Daniel Dankovich, D.C., lecturer of biological sciences at 糖心Vlog破解版 at East Liverpool, is called the winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award. The Outstanding Teaching Award, presented by the University Teaching Council, credits three full-time, non-tenure track and part-time faculty membe...
Carrie Esser (2018) recently made it to the Top 5 in the country for the NYX FACE Awards, a national makeup artist competition. While she didn't end up the grand prize winner in that contest, we know she is definitely a winner for continuing to work on her passion and pound the pavement to make her dreams come true! We were lucky enough to catch up with Carrie and find out more about the experience as well as her entrepreneurial journey. How did you get started doing the FACE Awards? My journey started in 2015 when I entered for the first time. My skills were very far from whe...