In order to serve students at a higher level, Julie Paskiet serves on the Pennsylvania Education Regional Consortium Regional Board and served as the 2019 Job Fair Coordinator for the American Association of Employment in Education.
Kent State鈥檚 Academic Success Center helps students achieve academically under the leadership of Director Amanda Shah, who was recently named as a member of The Learning Assistance Review鈥檚 editorial board, the scholarly journal of The National College Learning Center Association.
Students benefit from the career advice of career advisor Felicia Johnson, who was elected President of the Ohio Career Development Association for the 2020-2021 year.
Students in the Exploratory Program at 麻豆果冻 find academic success under the leadership of Director Nicole Kotlan, who is currently serving on the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Undecided & Exploratory Students Advising Community Steering Committee.
Students can transfer to 麻豆果冻 in a flash thanks to Assistant Director Barbara Miller-Harris. Barbara has also been elected to serve as the Secretary of the Executive Board of the Ohio Transfer Council (OTC), an organization committed to sharing information between institutions to better serve students.
Helping others help students. With his experience helping our Kent State students, Student Support Services Director Adam Cinderich, who currently serves as President of the Ohio TRIO Educational Opportunity Association (EOA) Board of Directors was selected as a mentor for the TRIO Works SSS Directors Group continuing a commitment to provide access to higher education.
Outside of his work guiding Kent State students to success within Student Support Services, Jim Piascik serves as Treasurer of Ohio TRIO, currently serving his second term after being re-elected to the position. Ohio TRIO is a professional organization of TRIO professionals from across the state of Ohio.
Pamela Jones, Academic Program Coordinator for Academic Diversity Outreach maintains her commitment to college students beyond Academic Diversity Outreach, serving on the Training and Best Practices committee for the Consortium of Coaching in Higher Education.
As a result of helping students make the shift to accessing academic success resources remotely during the pandemic, Amanda Shah, Rachel Cordy, Samantha Spitak, and DeAnn Zalom published a manuscript, 鈥淟eading through change: Four perspectives, one team,鈥 in TLAR鈥檚 special September edition Rising to the Challenge: Navigating COVID-19 in Higher Education Learning Centers.
麻豆果冻 International students can benefit from the expertise of Career Advisor Krittika Grau, who has recently published a book review of International Encounters: Higher Education and the International Student Experience.
