Kent State University Stark Campus

Motto	Imagine
Established	1946
Type	State University
Dean	Betsy Vogel Boze, CEO and Dean
Faculty	218 (Fall 2006)
Undergraduates	5,386 (2005-2006)
Location	North Canton, Ohio, United States
Campus	200 suburban acres
Mascot	Golden Flashes
Website	www.stark.kent.edu

Kent State University Stark Campus (also known as Kent State Stark) is an institution of higher learning offering 11 baccalaureate and two masters degree programs. Kent State Stark is located in North Canton, Ohio and is the largest regional campus of Kent State University, an eight-campus network serving northeast Ohio. A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ... Betsy V. Boze Betsy V. Boze is an American academic and university administrator. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Mascots at the Mascot Olympics in Orlando, Florida. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... North Canton is a city located in Stark County, Ohio. ... Kent State University (also known as Kent State or KSU) is an institution of higher learning located in Kent, Ohio, United States, which is about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, 12 miles east of Akron, and 30 miles west of Youngstown. ...

Location

Kent State Stark's mailing address is 6000 Frank Avenue, N.W., North Canton, Ohio 44720-7599.

This beautiful, surburban campus in a park-like setting consists of a protected wetland pond, athletic fields and six major buildings:

• Main Hall
• Learning Resource Center (Library)
• Fine Arts Building
• Campus Center
• Physical Education Facility
• Professional Education and Conference Center

The Kent Stark campus is located on 200 rolling acres in Jackson Township / North Canton, Stark County Ohio, with a population over 380,000 people. Stark County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ...

The campus is approximately:

• four miles from the Akron-Canton Airport
• five miles from the National Football League (NFL) Pro Football Hall of Fame
• conveniently located to restaurants and two major shopping malls, less than one mile from campus, including:
• The Westfield Shoppingtown/Belden Village Mall one mile away
• The Strip shopping center with major dining and retailing one mile away

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Academic Programs

Kent State Stark Main Hall opened in 1967.

Kent State Stark offers credit course work at the master, baccalaureate, and associate degree levels. Master is a term that indicates a person from stanton). ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course that generally lasts three or four years. ... An associates degree is the degree awarded by community colleges in Canada and the United States upon completion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. ...

Two Masters Degrees:

• Professional Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
• M.A. or M.Ed. in Curriculum and Teaching Studies.

Eleven Bachelor Degrees: Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... The Master of Education (M.Ed or M.A.E.) is a degree conferred by American institutions for educators moving on in their field. ...

• Applied Communication
• Business Management
• English
• History
• General Studies
• Justice Studies
• Middle Childhood Education
• Mathematics
• Nursing
• Psychology
• Technology

Undergraduate students can also begin any of Kent State University's 282 majors and programs of study at Kent State Stark.

Three Associate Degrees:

• Associate of Arts
• Associate of Science
• Associate of Justice Studies

Enrollment

Kent State Stark serves over 10,000 students each academic year, comprised of 5,386 students in undergraduate and graduate course work (fall, spring and summer semesters) and over 5,000 in non-credit executive and professional education through the Office of Corporate and Community Services. In addition, over 200 high school students take advantage of the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option Program. In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... A graduate school or grad school is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelors) degree. ...

History

Although Canton and the surrounding area had utilized the services of Kent State's extension programs since 1912, the real growth of Kent State in Stark County began in 1946, with an unprecedented surge of college students utilizing the new GI Bill. In order to accommodate the large number of people seeking a college education during the postwar years, Kent State created the "Canton Division" of the university and located it in the McKinley High School building on Market Street. Stark County is a county located in the state of Ohio. ... The G. I. Bill of Rights or Servicemens Readjustment Act of 1944 provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. ...

In 1965, the State legislature authorized the creation of a Kent State "branch" campus in Stark County, and appropriated over $2 million for its construction. Since Stark County was expected to provide partial financial support for the project, a citizen's committee was given the responsibility of finding a suitable site for the new campus. In March 1965, the committee submitted its top four site prospects to the Kent State Trustees; they chose an accessible and geographically central site near the new interstate highway. Most of the land for the approved site was owned by Leo A. Frank and John Wyles, who had farmed it with their families for many years before selling it to the university. Once the sale was approved, the Stark County committee set out to raise its share of the purchase price--just over $600,000--from local businesses and individuals. This task was completed by September 1965; ground breaking and construction for the first building began on January 7, 1966.

The new facility, known as Main Hall, opened in the fall of 1967. Since then, Kent State Stark has grown to include five academic campus buildings, a pond and nature trail, and the Professional Education and Conference Center which provides businesses and community partners with workforce development opportunities.

Faculty

As of Fall 2006, Kent State Stark has 218 faculty (94 full- and 124 part-time). 90% of full-time faculty hold a Ph.D. or a equivalent terminal degree in their field. All instructors hold at least a masters degree in their teaching field. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ...

Classes are small (most are under 25 students) and Kent State Stark does not have graduate assistants teaching classes. Every student is taught by a qualified faculty member.

Dean Betsy V. Boze

Betsy V. Boze

A native of Shreveport, LA, Betsy Vogel Boze earned her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and her Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. Her doctoral degree in marketing was conferred by the University of Arkansas. Betsy V. Boze Betsy V. Boze is an American academic and university administrator. ... Southern Methodist University (also known as SMU) is a private, coeducational university in University Park, Texas, (an enclave of Dallas). ... The University of Arkansas, known also as the U of A or UA, is a public co-educational land-grant university. ...

After extensive teaching experience, Dr. Boze began her administrative career as the chair of the Business Administration Department at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Following five years in that position, she was appointed as the dean of the School of Business at the University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas, a position she held for 11 years. From 2003 - 2004, she was an American Council on Education Fellow at Tulane University, serving as assistant to the university’s president. The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest member of the University of Alaska System, with over 17,000 students (14,000 of which attend classes at the campus in Anchorage proper). ... Texas Southmost College was established in 1926 under the name of The Junior College of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and admitted its first class on September twenty-first of that year. ... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

In July 2005, Dr. Boze began her appointment as the dean and CEO of Kent State University Stark Campus in North Canton, Ohio. Since her appointment as Kent State Stark’s dean, Dr. Boze has accepted several board positions with Canton organizations. In addition to serving as the president of the Ohio Association of Regional Campuses, she is also an active board member of the following organizations: the American Cancer Society of Stark County, Canton Regional Area Health Education Center, the Jackson-Belden Township Economic Development Committee, the Stark Education Partnership, Canton Museum of Art, Leadership Stark County, Stark Development Board and the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Boze is an avid adventure-seeker, enjoying activities such as sky diving, snorkeling and rock climbing. She has three children, Christopher, a fishing guide in Alaska; Lee-Gray, a geology major at the University of Montana; and Broox, who is earning her doctoral degree in zoology at Colorado State University. University of Montana The University of Montana campus, 1999. ... Colorado State University Colorado State University is a public land grant institution of higher learning located in Fort Collins, Colorado in the United States. ...

Student Life

Kent State Stark has over 30 active student life organizations ranging from academic organizations to social clubs. Kent State Stark also has a Physical Education Facility that offers open gym hours when classes are not in session. The facility has a half-court basketball and volleyball court, weight room, dance studio, Nautilus equipment, treadmills, stair climbers, elliptical walkers, stationary bikes and a full-service locker room for men and women. The campus sponsors several wellness initiatives each year and participates in many community service projects.

Office of Corporate and Community Services

Since 1990, Kent State Stark's Office of Corporate and Community Services has offered professional development courses and training to the Stark County area. The office provides professional development programs, customized employee training, organization development consulting, research and assessment projects and business counseling and training.

Professional Education and Conference Center

The Professional Education and Conference Center at Kent State Stark is northeast Ohio's most technologically advanced facility and serves 50,000 clients each year. It is one of ten facilities in Ohio affiliated with IACC, the International Association of Conference Centers. The Conference Center provides business and community partners with meeting, training and conference rooms, a full-service dining room and the Timken Great Hall that can seat 600 guests. The Timken Company is a major manufacturer of tapered roller bearings and specialty steels located in Canton, Ohio. ...

Alumni

The Kent State Stark County Alumni Chapter is an official chapter of the Kent State University Alumni Association. This chapter is available to and serves the 30,000 Kent State University graduates who live in Stark County. The chapter was established in 1995 to promote the involvement of former students and to support the academic programs, current students, faculty and staff of the Kent State University Stark Campus. The chapter is governed by a board of directors. The chapter’s annual fundraiser, the Reverse Raffle and Auction, supports student scholarships, student-life programming, a faculty luncheon, distinguished alumni awards program and alumni networking events. An alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine) of a college, university, or school is a former student. ...

Distinguished Alumni

• Brannon Braga (1983 – 1985) Writer, Producer, Television and Film. Hugo Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing; credits include these Star Trek features: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Mission Impossible 11, Star Trek: Enterprise.

• Frances H. Cicchinelli Jr. (1969 - 1973) Mayor Massillon, Ohio 1987-present.

• Lynne S. Dragomier (1968 - 1969) VP Marketing, Mercy Medical Center, VP Administration The Hoover Company, Board of Trustees Kent State University, Stark Community Foundation.

• Jack Fisher (1946, 1947) Owner, Fisher Foods, National First Ladies' Museum Advisory Board.

• Richard L. Hardgrove(1980 -1982) CEO, First National Bank of Ohio, COO, FirstMerit, Deputy Superintendent Banks State of Ohio, President and CEO, Sky Bank.

• Ronald Harris (1967 - 1968) 1968 Olympic gold medal for boxing, three-time National AAU Champion and bronze medal winner Pan American Games.

• William J. Healy (1961) Twelve terms Ohio House of Representatives, Chair, House Judiciary Committee, Chair, House Government Committee

• James R. Hillibish (1968 - 1971) Military Instructor, Defense Information School. Golden Quill Award, meritorious service medal from Joint Chiefs of Staff, Media Editor, Canton Repository.

• Michael Howard (1975) Judge Stark County Court of Common Pleas, CPA Deloitte & Touche senior tax manager.

• Darrell Issa (1973 -1976)US House of Representatives 49TH district of California, 2000-present. Co-chaired California Civil Rights. Initiative ending quotas in state contracting and college admissions. Founded Directed Electronics, Inc. famous for Viper car alarm.

• Jeffrey D. Jennings (1975 - 1977) Managing Director Morgan Stanley, New York City. Attorney, Division of Enforcement Securities and Exchange Commission Philadelphia and New York Stock Exchange.

• David A. Kidd (1972 - 1977) Founder, American Free Tree Program, resulting in planting 8.5 million trees, mobilizing one million volunteers.

• Johnnie Maier Jr. (1969 - 1976) Five term Ohio House of Representatives, Assistant Minority Leader of Ohio House

• Dr. Norma Marcere (1950's) Leader African-American Community, author two books and subject of play about her life

• Joseph Niamtu III, MD (1969 - 1971) Founder, Niamtu Imaging System, computerized modeling to assist cosmetic surgery.

• Stephen A. Perry (1963 - 1965) President and CEO, NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame, Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration, VP Human Resources and Logistics, Timken Company, Cabinet of Ohio Gov. George Voinovich, Director, Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Ohio Board of Regents

• Charles B. Scheurer (1960 -1963) VP Human Resources, Diebold Incorporated.

• Kirk Schuring (1970 – 1973, 1976) Ohio State Representative, House District 55, Ohio State Senator District 29

• Lee Sinclair (1969 - 1971) Judge, Common Pleas Court Stark County. Partner Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs.

• Mary Volpe (1978 - 1982) Foster Mother to 102 children, Canton "Citizen of the Year."

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