Kent State University faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit or call 330-346-0100.
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In this final feature, e-Inside presents some of Kent State University employees’ favorite summer vacation photos.
Online final grading for summer 2 2017 (S2) began Thursday, Aug. 3, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any summer 2017 course section that was flexibly scheduled. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Any final grades for summer 2017 courses not reported in FlashFAST by the grades processing deadline will have to be submitted using the Grade Change Workflow. These summer 2017 courses will be available in the Workflow on Thursday, Aug. 10.

The National League for Nursing has again designated Kent State University’s College of Nursing as a Center of Excellence for 2017-2022 in the category of “Advance the Science of Nursing Education.”

Kent State University alumnus and professional golfer Mackenzie Hughes returned to his alma mater for a “Welcome Back” reception in his honor organized by Herb Page, Kent State’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach.
Peter C. Kratcoski Sr., Department of Sociology at Kent State University at Stark, delivered the presentation “Gerontological Criminology (Gero-Crimology): Crime Policy and Legislation” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 23, 2017.
Christine A. Hudak, Ph.D., School of Information, was featured in the “Meet an Expert” section of the February 2017 HIMSS Information Xchange e-newsletter. The article focuses on her role as editor of The HIMSS HIT Dictionary, Fourth Edition, which was released earlier this year.
Robin Selinger, Liquid Crystal Institute; Michael Varga, graduate student, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program; and Andrew Konya, former graduate student in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, authored "Making Waves in a Photoactive Polymer Film" in Nature, 546, Issue 29 June 2017, (2017): 632-636.

Familiar Face
landon e. hancock
Associate Professpor
School of Peace and Conflict Studies
Kent Campus

New Face
kathleen norman
Marketing and Public Relations Communications Specialist
College of Nursing
Kent Campus
Jonathan Maletic, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, has received a three-year, $290,610 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help support basic research on how programmers write and develop large-scale software systems.
Dear Employees of the Kent State University Community,
This message serves to provide you with guidance should local, state and/or federal law enforcement visit our university campuses for the purposes of immigration law. As a public institution, Kent State must comply with all federal laws and directives, including those related to law enforcement activities.
Dear Colleagues:
Please take note of the following important information regarding your 2024 Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
Kent State University's holiday closure for 2024 will begin Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, at 10:30 p.m. All offices will re-open on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. Employees not eligible for the paid leave include student employees, classified temporary staff, temporary agency staff, short-term unclassified appointments, unclassified intermittent appointments and employees in a lay-off status. More information on the holiday schedule, including how employees should report time during that period, will be available later this month.