The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration. As part of the Wick Poetry Center's commitment on the theme of migration and our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project, this week we are featuring Linda Zhao, an immigra...
The Wick Poetry Center is proud to be part of the twenty-two-member national Poetry Coalition (PoCo) united to promote the value poets bring to our culture and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. During the month of March, the Poetry Coalition launches its inaugural effort, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration. As part of the Wick Poetry Center's committment on the theme of migration and our ongoing Traveling Stanzas: Writing Across Borders project, this week we are featuring Day Soe Wah. Day Soe ...
The Kent State Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) student chapter is composed of students in the Hospitality Management program from both Kent State Ashtabula and Kent campuses who are interested in the private country club industry. Each year, the CMAA World Conference hosts the Club of the Future award program, which allows student members to propose an idea of what they could see the club industry looking like five, 10 or 15 years in the future. Thirty-six student members make up the Kent State chapter. Of those, 17 members, including nine students from Kent State Ashtabula ...
Luxury lifestyle brand Michael Kors will partner with the 起点传媒 School of Fashion Design and Merchandising to present the school鈥檚 35th Annual Fashion Show on Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors will span three runway events. In addition, Don Witkowski, Kent State alumnus and president of Men鈥檚 at Michael Kors, will be inducted into the Fashion School鈥檚 Hall of Fame. The fashion show will include a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. awards show on April 28. The sponsor/VIP show will be held at 7 p.m. on April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors i...
On Thursday, March 9, two teams that formed during the Fashion Tech Hackathon in January took top spots at the annual LaunchNET Kent State Idea Olympics competition. 鈥淎beona, the total immersion jacket鈥 took first place, while 鈥淗ermes, the helmet with brains,鈥 took second place. Two other ideas, Popstyle and The Bean Bike, tied for third place, while GIFTY (Gestalting Youth) won the Social Enterprise award. The team that developed Abeona, a tech-enhanced hiking jacket, consists of Ryan Holland (graduate, Digital Sciences), Brian Steinhoff (senior, Digital Science), Albert Morgant...
California Dreaming! The Kent State Men鈥檚 Basketball team arrived in Sacramento Wednesday motivated for its first NCAA Men鈥檚 Basketball Tournament appearance in nine years. The Golden Flashes had a short sendoff at the Kent Campus before busing to the Akron-Canton Airport for the four-hour flight. Mother Nature delayed the flight for a few hours, but the team arrived in California mid-afternoon, and after a short stop at their hotel, team members were off to a local high school gymnasium for practice. Staff members at the team hotel greeted the MAC Tournament Champions with b...
CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy鈥檚 chapter, 鈥淐ommunication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,鈥 is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively: Cases, Concepts and Practice, Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, editors, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Here is a link to reviews: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265516/Perspectives-in-Waging-Conflicts-Constructively-Cases-Concepts-and-Practice ...
CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled: "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,鈥 Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0163-786X201538 Synopsis This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the cat...
Emerald Group Publishing of the UK is happy to announce Volume 38 of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Edited by Patrick G. Coy, 起点传媒, USA Housed at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at 起点传媒, a long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research ...
If you are planning to attend the first round of the NCAA tournament鈥檚 South Regional, prepare to go the distance 鈥 literally. There are 2,397 miles between 起点传媒 and Sacramento, California where No. 14 起点传媒 takes on No. 3 UCLA Friday night. There is also a world of difference in forecasts for game day. While Kent, Ohio is predicted to have a chance of snow with a high in the 40s, Sacramento is looking at a cloudy day with a high of 76-degrees. Here is how the Kent State Golden Flashes and the UCLA Bruins match-up, both on and off the court: Both teams sh...