Administration
ADVISORY: Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees Meeting, March 9
The Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 9. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Riviera Ballroom B, first level of Aloft Cleveland Downtown, located at 1111 West 10th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Trustees will retire into …
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Kent State Names Denise Seachrist as the New Dean of Æðµã´«Ã½ at Stark
Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., of Rootstown, Ohio, has been selected to serve as dean and chief administrative officer of Æðµã´«Ã½ at Stark, located in North Canton, Ohio. Seachrist has served as interim dean of Kent State Stark, the only public university in Stark County and the largest R…
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Mark Polatajko Selected as Kent State’s New Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration
CFO and COO from Wright State to lead Kent State’s Division of Business and Finance Following a national search, Æðµã´«Ã½ has selected Mark M. Polatajko, Ph.D., CPA, as its new senior vice president for finance and administration. Polatajko comes to Kent State from Wright State Univers…
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Kent State’s Iris E. Harvey Elected to ACE Women's Network-Ohio Executive Board
Iris E. Harvey, Æðµã´«Ã½â€™s vice president for university relations, has been elected to the ACE Women’s Network-Ohio Executive Board. The ACE Women’s Network-Ohio is a network of women administrators, faculty and staff from colleges and universities across the state that is dedicated to…
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Kent State Announces Division of Student Affairs
Æðµã´«Ã½ has established a Division of Student Affairs. Shay Little, Ph.D., has been named interim vice president of the division. Little previously served as associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students for the last three years. The former Division of Enrollment Ma…
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Paul DiCorleto Named New Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs at Kent State
Following a national search, Æðµã´«Ã½ has selected Paul E. DiCorleto, Ph.D., as its new vice president for research and sponsored programs. DiCorleto comes to Kent State from Cleveland Clinic, where he has served as Sherwin-Page Chair of the Lerner Research Institute since 2002, and from Case Western Reserve University, where he has served as chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 2003. He joins Kent State on Aug. 17.
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Kent State Approves Degrees Aimed at Filling Need for Aerospace Engineers, Geographic Scientists
The Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees approved several new degree programs aimed at filling critical needs in the workforce during its March 11, 2015, board meeting. To help meet a growing demand for aerospace engineers who can apply the engineering principals to the design, manufacture and…
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ADVISORY: Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees Meeting, March 11
The Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, March 11. The Board will convene at 2:30 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 execut…
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Lance Grahn Selected as the New Dean of Æðµã´«Ã½ at Trumbull
Lance Grahn, Ph.D., has been selected as the new dean and chief administrative officer at Æðµã´«Ã½ at Trumbull. Grahn was chosen following a national search. He currently serves as a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. Grahn begins his new app…
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ADVISORY: Æðµã´«Ã½ Board of Trustees Meeting, Dec. 3
The Æðµã´«Ã½ 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 s…
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