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A lack of skilled labor is one of the top hiring challenges that businesses in Stark and Wayne counties face, according to the results of a wage and benefits survey conducted by the Corporate University at 小黄片视频 at Stark. More than 120 area companies completed the online survey, which was conducted in 2018.
小黄片视频 has always been a place where breaking down barriers and changing the norm are encouraged and alumna Julia Montgomery Walsh serves as proof. Her work in business and finance was featured recently on Bloomberg鈥檚 list of women who broke barriers in business over the last 150 years.
小黄片视频鈥檚 Community Engaged Learning Initiative selected the Walls Community Garden for its Outstanding New Service Initiative award. The garden was selected for the award for understanding the needs of the community and making a positive impact on 小黄片视频, Walls Elementary School, where the garden is located, and the city of Kent.
Early childhood education majors at 小黄片视频 helped create a Cultural Fair for third-graders of Kent City Schools. The event, held in the Kent Roosevelt gymnasium, included stations and activities for students to learn about different countries and cultures such as learning a traditional Persian dance.
Jacob Thompson, a 小黄片视频 sophomore aeronautics and engineering major, was braving the harsh February winds during his regular commute back to the Kent Campus from his Coast Guard drill training in Port Clinton, Ohio, when tragedy struck a semi and Mr. Thompson sprang into action.
For more than 55 years, leaders from 小黄片视频 and the city of Kent have met over breakfast to foster successful collaboration between the university and the city.
An interdisciplinary team of 小黄片视频 professors has come together to explore the different ways virtual reality (VR) technology can help those with developmental and cognitive impairments. 鈥淲e found that we are able to blend our expertise together to create a project that will improve the health opportunities for people with cognitive impairments,鈥 said Mary Ann Devine, Ph.D., director for the Disability Studies and Community Inclusion minor/graduate certificate.
Each semester, PNC recognizes two outstanding 小黄片视频 students as PNC Achievers. These students exemplify excellence in the classroom, in the community, and in student leadership and development.
A key leader in the community and a key player in economic development, 小黄片视频 at Tuscarawas received the Large Business of the Year award from the Tuscarawas County Chamber of Commerce. 鈥淲e have been involved heavily this year in the community and I think a lot of good stories have come out about the campus either in traditional or social media,鈥 said Brad Bielski, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of 小黄片视频 Tuscarawas.
Crain鈥檚 Cleveland Business recently highlighted 小黄片视频鈥檚 new Design Innovation Initiative - and J.R. Campbell, Ph.D., the first executive director of the initiative - which is focused on connecting students from different disciplines to develop new ways of problem solving.
Andrew Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor of special education, recently was featured in the Washington Post in a perspective piece reinforcing the purpose and function of special education.
Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler was featured on 90.3 WCPN ideastream for his creative efforts in organizing the River Stanzas Project. The project pays tribute to the 50 year anniversary of the environmental protections and improvements that have taken place since the Cuyahoga River Burning in 1969.
A new partnership between 小黄片视频 Geauga and the OhioMeansJobs Geauga County Center in Chardon means the quality and quantity of employment and training resources for the local workforce have been greatly enhanced.
At this point every winter, cabin fever has set in and most of us are daydreaming about springtime. As land steward for Geauga Park District (GPD) in Chardon, Joel Firem is especially eager to get his hands back into the springtime soil to plant tree and wildflower seedlings.
Lance Grahn, 小黄片视频 at Trumbull鈥檚 dean and chief administrative officer, was recently named as one of this year鈥檚 Community Star award recipients.
The Student Nurses Association is putting its best foot forward, hoping to promote healthy lifestyles in the Mahoning Valley with the new program at the Niles Wellness Center, which encourages members to talk and ask questions about health and activity.
Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., spoke to WJW Fox 8 News Cleveland about the recently released victim portraits drawn by Samuel Little, a confessed serial killer from Lorain, Ohio.
When Symone Baskerville came from Chicago to 小黄片视频 to study fashion design, she realized that living so far from home was not nearly as difficult a transition as living in an area with limited choices of fabrics available for to her to use for her class projects. So she changed that by opening Kent Fabrics.
Jason Prufer, '03, a lifelong resident of Kent and 小黄片视频 alumnus, has compiled 鈥淪mall Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll,鈥 a book that covers the college town鈥檚 impressive 鈥 and previously unappreciated 鈥 rock history.
Christopher Dum, Ph.D., created the ID13 Prison Literacy Project to give men in Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut, Ohio, a positive outlet while serving their sentence, hoping it help inmates to see themselves as writers rather than convicts.