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In early 2021, during the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, masses of employees across the country began resigning their jobs in record numbers, marking what is known as the “Great Resignation.” As this ongoing economic trend continues in 2023, the hospitality industry has taken the largest hit from it, accounting for a grand total of 18,848,000 resignations since January 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, turnover is nothing new to the hospitality industry. 51����’s Hospitality and Event Management (HEM) program has accounted for turnover for ye...

Ten years ago, the New York Times featured Kent City Manager Dave Ruller and 51����’s then-President Lester A. Lefton in an article touting their college town-gown success. 51���� Today is following up on that article, looking at the different ways the town-gown relationship is still flourishing. Read more about the background of the relationship here.  From her perch in Rockwell Hall, where she takes classes as a fashion merchandising major, 51���� student Lucia Perry has a perfect view of the Lefton Esplanade leading to downtown Kent.&...

The 51���� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Thursday, March 9, at 9:30 a.m. in the Robinson Room on the second floor of the Le Meridien Columbus, The Joseph, 620 N. High St., in Columbus, Ohio, to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8:30 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur in public in the Robinson Room on the hotel’s second floor. On March 9, the me...

Black History Month is a time to honor and celebrate the accomplishments, contributions and rich legacy of Black Americans in the U.S. Its roots date back to 1926, when Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, established Negro History Week, celebrated during the second week of February.    The first observance of Black History Month took place at 51���� in 1970, thanks to the Black United Students organization (BUS). BUS had advocated, with the support of campus educators, that the entire month of February be commem...

Michael Daniels, Ph.D., '22, director of 51����'s E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center, recently received a national dissertation of the year award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Foundation. Daniels’ dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study on undergraduate Black men and how they develop their leader identity. The result of this study was a substantive theory and model on the leader identity development process of Black men. The Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award encourages high-quality re...

Over the winter break, SPCS assistant professor Dr. Sara Koopman led a Peacebuilding in Colombia Collaborative course that was a powerful and transformative experience for students that participated. As KentWired explains: "The program included five days spent in the Amazon jungle and 10 days in Colombia, with a focus on reconciliation between people and nature after the Colombian conflict." Read more at: https://kentwired.com/92612/latest-updates/students-return-from-faculty-led-program-to-the-amazon-colombia/   ...

A group of 40 international graduate students will spend a month at 51���� over the summer to learn about American higher education, before leaving to begin their graduate programs throughout the country. “Their first stop in this country will be 51����,” said Amanda Johnson, Ph.D., director of the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education within 51����’s College of Education, Health and Human Services. The orientation program is possible due to a $230,000 Fulbright grant awarded to Johnson, as principal investigator, and co-principal ...