Division of People, Culture and Belonging
August 2017 Volume 15 | Issue 2 PageUp is Coming to Kent State University As you may be aware, the Talent Acquisition Team is improving its recruiting and hiring process by introducing a new online Applicant Tracking System (ATS) called PageUp, which will replace our current vendor, PeopleAdmin. Some of the benefits for the new ATS include: Enhanced brand for recruiting top talent Increased automation of recruitment process administration Redesign and streamline of existing recruitment procedures Ability to build a candidate database/talent pools Enhanced candidate exper...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
July 2017 Volume 15 | Issue 1 DocuSign Comes to Kent State University The Division of Human Resources is excited to introduce our new electronic signature program, DocuSign. With the implementation of the DocuSign application, the process of routing new hire documents for signature, approving requests and tracking timeline progress is simpler and more efficient. Documents will soon be signed and forwarded digitally and instantly, on any device with ease. This will reduce time and effort and minimize the potential for lost paperwork. The benefits of using DocuSign ar...
Kent State鈥檚 Columbiana County campuses hosted orientation sessions on each of the two campuses to help welcome new and transfer students for the 2017-18 academic year. Destination Kent State, or DKS, was a day-long event for students, parents and family members to learn the ins and outs of being a college student at Kent State Salem and Kent State East Liverpool. Faculty, staff and administrators led information sessions to help explain topics such as financial aid, scholarships, technical support, time management, library resources, study techniques and learning support services. At the en...
It鈥檚 that nagging question you ask yourself every Thanksgiving after you have piled the food sky-high on your plate and savored every last morsel: 鈥淲hat happened? Were my eyes bigger than my stomach?鈥 For many years, doctors and dieticians have focused on overeating as part of the reason for the obesity epidemic in America. There is sound science behind the predisposition to fill our plates with what we think is a reasonable portion, only to find ourselves overeating anyway. However, a new study by Kent State University researchers aims to help us use the tricks that our eyes play on us ...
A jog after work can be healthy and fun 鈥 but your desktop computer does not need to run. ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE Shut down your computer at the end of the day and work week. Activate sleep settings instead of a screensaver. Plug electronics into a smart power strip. DID YOU KNOW? A computer left running 24/7 is wasting energy about 70 percent of the time! A computer with a screensaver uses significantly more energy than an idle computer! ...
By Karen Farkas, cleveland.com kfarkas@cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Oberlin College, Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University have been named "Cool Schools" by Sierra Magazine for their commitment to sustainability. The magazine, the official publication of the Sierra Club, ranked 239 colleges on their environmental practices in areas including food, transportation systems, water and waste management, purchasing procedures and investments. Sustainability is important to students and more than a quarter of prospective college students cite a school's sustainability co...
He is best known as "The Fonz" on "Happy Days." On Oct. 10, Henry Winkler will share the story of his career and living with undiagnoised dyslexia.
College of Communication & Information
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2017. The school will mark the occasion with its annual alumni and friends award ceremony, held in conjunction with the opening of the newly renovated Taylor Hall, on Friday, Sept. 22. Though JMC made the move into the newly renovated Franklin Hall in 2007, much of its history is rooted in Taylor, which now houses the College of Communication and Information鈥檚 (CCI) Schools of Communication Studies and Visual Communication Design. The Friday celebration will kick off at 4 p.m. with the 80th Anniv...