Annie (Phuong) Tran is living her dream at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. An engineering technology student, Annie and her mother, Nhung Quan, are from Vietnam and have been in the states for the past five years. While completing an internship with the Kent State Tuscarawas Makerspace in the Academic Learning Commons for her associate degree in computer science at Columbus State last year, Tran soon realized that she had found a new home and transferred to the Tuscarawas Campus. “We are so excited to have Annie transfer to the Tuscarawas Campus,” said Cherie Bronkar, Kent St...
Kent State University’s Honors College is a place of enrichment, learning, and fun for an ever-growing number of students. This year, the number of Honors College freshmen reached a new record, totaling 572 students. In addition to Stopher and Johnson Halls, which house the administrative offices of the Honors College as well as provide housing and community to hundreds of honors students, the Honors Living-Learning Community has expanded to include Centennial Court B as of fall 2019. Already, the Honors College class of 2023 demonstrates a great deal of academic potential: their ...
While the daily news is full of tumultuous conversations about Russia and China, Kent State University has been helping some area high school students learn to converse in Russian and Chinese to facilitate greater global understanding and a less contentious tomorrow. Kent State’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences received federal funding for the 12th consecutive year to host the fully immersive STARTALK Summer Foreign Language Academy this past summer. Twenty students from Northeast Ohio learned Russian or Chinese language a...
Love, loss and hope. These are three critical elements Maria Jacobs brings – along with her considerable professional experience – to the Kent State University community. Jacobs is a part-time instructor in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and a nationally known jazz singer. “Every day that I teach, I learn a tremendous amount,” Jacobs said. “Students come in with ideas and goals for not only their voices, but also knowledge of the ‘Great American Songbook’ and music theory. It brings me immeasurable joy to see their faces light up when they love a song I introduce for the first time.” Ja...
All students will be evaluated on a Reflection Essay that examines the impact of the study away experience. This assignment should be 3-5 pages.
Students should submit the Reflection Essay to Dr. Kim Hahn in Rockwell, 218C.
Reflective Essay Prompts
Utilize the list below to guide your Reflective Essay:
A complete proposal includes:
- A completed Online Proposal Form
- A completed Signature Form (download from the Proposal Form)
- A Proposal Description of the experience and planned assessment
Proposal Description
The Proposal Description must be 2-3 pages and should include the following information:
Introduction: A brief overview of what you plan to do as your study away experience.
Global Learning is the critical analysis and engagement with complex, interdependent global systems, and their implications for people's lives and the Earth's sustainability. Through Global Learning, students should:
- Become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences,
- seek to understand how their actions affect both local and global communities, and
- address the world's most pressing and enduring issues collaboratively and equitably.
The Women’s Center is excited to announce the (R)Evolution Leadership program is officially on the books as a Kent State University Fall 2019 course! “We started this program because we knew we needed a way to bring students together with their peers and provide networking opportunities with leaders across campus and the community,” shared Women’s Center Director, Cassandra Pegg-Kirby. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), there is a need for women leadership programs. Although women make up more than half of the population, “In universities, businesses and...
The Student Multicultural Center (SMC) kicked off our Academic Year by welcoming over 240 first year and new transfer students to Kent State University during our Kupita/Transiciones (K/T) cultural orientation program. The program focuses on ways to culturally affirm our students, build community and enhance their sense of belonging to Kent State University. By the end of the fourth day of K/T, we really felt the sense of family amongst the new students, our upperclassmen, and our faculty and staff. In Fall 2020, The Male Empowerment Network (MEN) will be celebrating the 10th an...
On Saturday, September 21, 2019, the Kent State University LGBTQ+ Center participated in the annual Homecoming Parade, as well as hosting the fourth annual Homecoming TailGAYte at Bricco Kent. Around 20 students, faculty and staff members marched in the Parade, and passed out rainbow bead necklaces as well as information about the upcoming Rainbow Run fundraiser. The TailGAYte event was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Center and the KSU LGBTQ+ Alumni Chapter. The event brought together nearly 100 attendees, representing a mix of current students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. Als...