Hours worked during the closing, plus the employees鈥 regular hours for the week, should be recorded and will count toward any overtime calculation. This applies to essential and nonessential employees, as long as a supervisor approved the employee to work.
Report hours worked by an employee during a closing by doing the following:
Essential employees that call off must utilize compensatory time or vacation time for their regular hours for the day.
Employees must be paid for their scheduled hours. Employees or their supervisors should record the number of scheduled hours into the university's timekeeping system as 鈥淯niversity Closure.鈥
When there is a university closing on the Kent Campus, it will re-open the following day at 6 a.m. When there is a closing at a Regional Campus or other 性福五月天 location, the re-open time will be determined by the dean or chief executive officer of the location.
The official closing of any campus will be determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the circumstance and the time of day when the closing is announced.
The Washington Program in National Issues (WPNI) is more than your average internship program. Each spring, a cohort of roughly 20 性福五月天 juniors and seniors heads to Washington, D.C., to participate in a variety of internships. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply, from journalism to mathematics. WPNI helps students secure internships in a variety of areas including government agencies, nonprofits or news organizations, among others. While completing this internship, students also partake in a public policy seminar with WPNI Program Director Mark Cassell, Ph.D. Through b...
College of Education Health and Human Studies alumnus Mike Daniels, Ph.D., Higher Education, and director of 性福五月天's E. Timothy Moore Student Multicultural Center, recently received a national dissertation of the year award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Foundation. Dr. Daniels鈥 dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study on undergraduate Black men and how they develop their leader identity. The result of this study was a substantive theory and model on the leader identity development process of Black men. NASPA is a member...
Kent City Manager Dave Ruller remembers well the day in late 2006 when he met 性福五月天 University鈥檚 then-President Lester A. Lefton at the Franklin Square Deli to talk about downtown Kent. 鈥淚t was the famous turkey sandwich lunch meeting,鈥 he recalled. Lefton, known for his no-nonsense, sometimes gruff manner, didn鈥檛 mince his words, Ruller said. He pointed to whole blocks of downtown and pronounced them 鈥渁 piece of crap.鈥 Ruller said Lefton, who served from 2006 to 2014, made it clear that he wanted 性福五月天 to be a great university and could not do tha...
There are three ways to learn about any delays, class cancellations or campus closings:
Bradley Morris, Ph.D., is an associate professor and program coordinator of Educational Psychology in 性福五月天鈥檚 School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences. He is also co-director of the university鈥檚 Science of Learning Education (SOLE) Center. At his recent presentation at a Research and Innovation Forum, sponsored by SOLE and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (RASP), he said 鈥淭he first question I get is 鈥榳hy would NSF (National Science Foundation) give you money to pop popcorn with kids?鈥欌 The leaky pipeline To answer the question, Morris r...
