Learning, Teaching, & Research Resources

Bureau of Research Training & Services
A bureau that supports health care and educational institutions in need of research design, analysis and interpretation, survey and test development, or consultation and assessment services. The bureau also provides transcription services, consultation for the development of grant proposals, and data verification and entry.

Faculty Affairs
This KSU page provides downloadable information on RTP guidelines for KSU faculty.

Faculty Senate
The Faculty Senate Forums provide faculty the opportunity to focus and discuss issues of common concern among all KSU faculty as an eight-campus community. 

Information Literacy
Successful teaching and learning requires understanding of fundamental information literacy standards. This link will take you to Kent State's Libraries and Media Services' introduction to information literacy standards, which involves information seeking skills, independent learning, and social responsibility. 

Institute for CyberInformation
Located in Moulton Hall is an interdisciplinary research center whose mission includes conducting collaborative research and supporting university-industry partnerships as they relate to the application and integration of digital information technologies for knowledge management.  The Institute's current focus is on network publishing and portable reading devices, such as e-books and tablets.  Research projects involve faculty and students from schools and departments throughout Kent State's eight-campus network.  The institute also relies on a professional board of advisers comprised of representatives from public and private organizations as well as from Kent State University to provide guidance and to help shape its research agenda. 

Research Center for Educational Technology
The research conducted within RCET takes place in the Ameritech classroom in Moulton Hall.  The center's purpose  is to provide a collegial network for university researchers and preK-16 educators committed to studying the impact of technology on teaching and learning.

Research and Graduate Studies (RAGS)
A division comprised of three main branches: one that oversees all university graduate programs, one that handles details concerning all university research and one responsible for Technology Transfer and Outreach Coordination. 

University Research Council (URC)
The URC fosters and stimulates the research mission of the University by studying and recommending policies respecting research; recommending priorities for support of research; recommending faculty research appointments; collecting information on research; and publicizing research efforts of the University.

University Teaching Council (UTC)
Among their many responsibilities related to supporting the scholarship of teaching, the UTC funds teaching and curriculum development projects and hosts, with support of the fpdc, the annual October teaching conference.   

 

 

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