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�鶹��Ƶ’s College of Business Administration and Department of Economics are ranked in the top 25 percent of research institutions in Ohio by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In addition, �鶹��Ƶ’s Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., an associate professor of economics, is ranked in the top 100 economists worldwide whose first publication was five or fewer years ago. “The Department of Economics at �鶹��Ƶ is ranked among the top 25 percent of institutions in Ohio in a study which analyzes data on authors of scholarly work done by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Lou...

The documentary film May 4th Voices: �鶹��Ƶ, 1970, created by two �鶹��Ƶ collaborators, is a recipient of the 2014 Oral History Association’s Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award. The Oral History Association is an organization that seeks to bring together all people interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity. Kenneth Bindas, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of History, and David Hassler, the director of the Wick Poetry Center, both in �鶹��Ƶ’s College of Arts and Sciences, worke...

A new on-campus mediation service is underway at �鶹��Ƶ for students experiencing conflict. Student Mediation Services, which began this fall, is led by Jacquelyn Bleak and is located at 118 Twin Towers on the Kent Campus. Although the office is providing services now for students, its main focus this semester is conducting a needs assessment of all students. The assessment includes formal and informal surveys, as well as focus groups, to narrow down the particular needs of �鶹��Ƶ students. “If I know how students deal with conflict in their everyday life, I can ...

The �鶹��Ƶ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Dec. 3. The Board will convene at 2 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the Kent Campus Library. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”   Trustees will meet as a Committee of the Whole from 8:45-10:20 a.m. This will be followed by Board standing committee meetings as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 10:...

Dr. Patrick Coy, Director of �鶹��Ƶ's Center for Applied Conflict Management, was interviewed by WAKR about what positive, constructive conflict management steps can now be taken in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury failed to return an indictment in the Michael Brown shooting.   ...