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College of Education and Human Services

Ģý's College of Education, Health and Human Service Hosts Second Class of Summer Institute for Diverse Graduate Students

Ģý’s College of Education, Health and Human Services welcomes its second class of the Summer Experience for Emerging Diverse Scholars (SEEDS) program on June 17. The SEEDS program promotes graduate education within the college to prospective graduate students of diverse background…

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Kent Campus

Ģý Hosts Swedish Psychiatrist Harald Blomberg at Rhythmic Movement Training Symposium

Swedish psychiatrist Harald Blomberg, M.D., will share his work, Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT), at a symposium hosted by Ģý’s College of Education, Health and Human Services from July 21-28. RMT has been successful since the 1980s in improving emotional functioning, reading and…

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Kent Campus

Ģý graduate student Lauren Ledzianowski uses video teleconferencing to help students in rural school districts with speech-language therapy.

Video Conferencing Connects Ģý to Students in Rural School Districts

In an office nestled inside Ģý’s Nixson Hall, you can hear the voice of a third grade student coming from a computer screen. “Beach ball,” says the voice from Greenfield Exempted Village Schools in Greenfield, Ohio. Soon after, in the screen directly below, Ģý gradua…

Tags: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology , College of Education and Human Services , Student Success , Success Story

Kent Campus

Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Ģý’s College of Education, Health and Human Services

Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and student personnel at Ģý and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has been named interim dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015.  Todd Diacon, Ģý’s se…

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College of Education and Human Services

Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Ģý’s College of Education, Health and Human Services

Mark Kretovics, Ph.D., associate professor of higher education administration and student personnel at Ģý and a resident of Kent, Ohio, has been named interim dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, effective July 1, 2015.  Todd Diacon, Ģý’s se…

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Mark Kretovics to Serve as Interim Dean of Ģý’s College of Education, Health and Human Services

The First Group of Students With Intellectual Disabilities Gets Ready to Graduate From Ģý’s Career and Community Studies Program

Maddie Morsefield is like any other high-achieving college senior at Ģý. She is a straight-A student. Her résumé is filled with work experience and awards, and she is going through mock interviews to help her land that first job. But what makes Morsefield extra special is that sh…

Tags: College of Education and Human Services , Community & Society

Kent Campus

Ģý to Help Akron Students Earn College Credit Without Leaving High School

  Reading, writing and arithmetic are getting a college-styled makeover in two Akron, Ohio, high schools. Through a $480,000 grant from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation, the partnership called College Today will send Ģý instructors into Ellet High Schoo…

Tags: College of Education and Human Services , Division of Institutional Advancement , College of Sciences and Humanities

Kent Campus

Ģý High-Tech Classroom Fosters Research

At first glance, it looks like a typical classroom. But if you look closer, you will see a state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind teaching facility not found on any other college campus. It is called the AT&T Classroom, located on the bottom floor of Ģý’s Moulton Hall. The classro…

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Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET)

Ģý’s Speech-language Therapy Services Provided to 100 Rural Students Via Video Conferencing

Rural and underserved Ohio students are able to receive speech-language therapy services through Ģý via an innovative online videoconferencing system. More than 100 children enrolled in preschool through high school with identified communication impairments from Montpelier Exempte…

Tags: College of Education and Human Services , College of Education and Human Services , Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology

Kent Campus

Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., and Arden Ruttan, Ph.D., along with their student research team, design, develop and study an app to reduce teen stress.

Ģý Professors Turn to Technology to Reduce Teen Stress

Have too much stress? There is an app for coping. Researchers from Ģý’s College of Arts and Sciences worked together to develop an app that not only measures stress levels in teenagers, but also teaches them how to manage anxiety. The app gathers data in real time using two …

Tags: Department of Psychological Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , College of Education and Human Services , Research and Sponsored Programs , Success Story , Research & Science

Kent Campus