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The ����ɬ���� Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) student chapter is composed of students in the Hospitality Management program from both ����ɬ���� Ashtabula and Kent campuses who are interested in the private country club industry. Each year, the CMAA World Conference hosts the Club of the Future award program, which allows student members to propose an idea of what they could see the club industry looking like five, 10 or 15 years in the future. Thirty-six student members make up the ����ɬ���� chapter. Of those, 17 members, including nine students from ����ɬ���� Ashtabula ...

Luxury lifestyle brand Michael Kors will partner with the ����ɬ���� School of Fashion Design and Merchandising to present the school’s 35th Annual Fashion Show on Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors will span three runway events. In addition, Don Witkowski, ����ɬ���� alumnus and president of Men’s at Michael Kors, will be inducted into the Fashion School’s Hall of Fame. The fashion show will include a 2 p.m. matinee and 7 p.m. awards show on April 28. The sponsor/VIP show will be held at 7 p.m. on April 29. FS2 Presented by Michael Kors i...

Recently, a delegation from Xi'An International Studies University (XISU) in China led by President Wang Junzhe met with members of the ����ɬ���� faculty and staff to sign a partnership agreement between the two universities. Xi’An International Studies University provides an important strategic partnership for ����ɬ����. XISU is a renowned university located in the historically significant city of Xi’An. Through the partnership, XISU students will be welcomed to ����ɬ����, and XISU will become the newest education-abroad destination for ����ɬ���� students. At XISU, ����ɬ���� s...

On Thursday, March 9, two teams that formed during the Fashion Tech Hackathon in January took top spots at the annual LaunchNET ����ɬ���� Idea Olympics competition. “Abeona, the total immersion jacket” took first place, while “Hermes, the helmet with brains,” took second place. Two other ideas, Popstyle and The Bean Bike, tied for third place, while GIFTY (Gestalting Youth) won the Social Enterprise award.   The team that developed Abeona, a tech-enhanced hiking jacket, consists of Ryan Holland (graduate, Digital Sciences), Brian Steinhoff (senior, Digital Science), Albert Morgant...

California Dreaming!  The ����ɬ���� Men’s Basketball team arrived in Sacramento Wednesday motivated for its first NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance in nine years. The Golden Flashes had a short sendoff at the Kent Campus before busing to the Akron-Canton Airport for the four-hour flight.  Mother Nature delayed the flight for a few hours, but the team arrived in California mid-afternoon, and after a short stop at their hotel, team members were off to a local high school gymnasium for practice. Staff members at the team hotel greeted the MAC Tournament Champions with b...

CACM Director Patrick Coy has published a chapter in a new book focused on constructive conflict management. Coy’s chapter, “Communication, Constructiveness, and Asymmetry in Nonviolent Action Theory and Practice,” is chapter two in Perspectives in Waging Conflicts Constructively: Cases, Concepts and Practice, Bruce Dayton and Louis Kriesberg, editors, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. Here is a link to reviews:  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442265516/Perspectives-in-Waging-Conflicts-Constructively-Cases-Concepts-and-Practice     ...

  CACM Associate Professor, Landon Hancock, has published a new edited book, his third, this one entitled:  "Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change,” Emerald Publishing Group, Bingley, UK, 2016.   http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0163-786X201538   Synopsis This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the cat...

Emerald Group Publishing of the UK is happy to announce Volume 38 of  Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change   Edited by Patrick G. Coy, ����ɬ����, USA   Housed at the Center for Applied Conflict Management at ����ɬ����, a long-standing characteristic of the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series is publishing new theoretical and empirical work that connects previously disparate sub-fields. This volume continues that tradition by opening with five papers that join social movements research ...

If you are planning to attend the first round of the NCAA tournament’s South Regional, prepare to go the distance – literally. There are 2,397 miles between ����ɬ���� and Sacramento, California where No. 14 ����ɬ���� takes on No. 3 UCLA Friday night. There is also a world of difference in forecasts for game day. While Kent, Ohio is predicted to have a chance of snow with a high in the 40s, Sacramento is looking at a cloudy day with a high of 76-degrees. Here is how the ����ɬ���� Golden Flashes and the UCLA Bruins match-up, both on and off the court: Both teams sh...

����ɬ���� is competing with nearly 200 colleges and universities during RecycleMania through April 1, to promote recycling and prevent waste from going into landfills. RecycleMania is an eight-week competition during which colleges report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week. They are then ranked based on which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, which schools recycle the most per capita and which schools have the least amount of trash and recycling combined. In the last two years, ����ɬ���� was in the top 25 percen...