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TV2, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ's independent student-run television station, raised more than $4,000 for Akron Children's Hospital through a 25-hour broadcast on Nov. 4, 2017. The fundraiser was part of ExtraLife, an organization that creates gaming marathons to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. ExtraLife has more than 100,00 members and serves nearly 10 million families across the nation.  The broadcast brought together TV2's news, entertainment and production staff from 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, through 8 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5. The station's18 different sh...

ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ has been awarded the 2017 Encouraging Environmental Excellence (E3) Silver-level award from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The award recognizes ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ as a leading university in environmental stewardship. Melanie Knowles, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s manager for sustainability, received the award on behalf of the university. According to the Ohio EPA, the goal of environmental stewardship is to reduce the impact of business or organizational activities on the environment beyond measures required by any permit or rule, produce a better environment and con...

Students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) have a new opportunity to report on statewide issues and get published in various Ohio news outlets, thanks to a Media in the Public Interest Grant. Through the grant, a small cohort of JMC students will write 12 stories to be published through the Ohio News Connection between now and August 2018. Ohio News Connection is a news service reaching 127 radio stations, 44 print and online outlets and seven television stations throughout Ohio and border states. “Initially the invite to join the grant came through our scholastic ...

This summer, the MultimediaDevices network was launched. The new network replaced the Gaming network in the residence halls and extended the service to all buildings on the Kent Campus. The change resulted from a need for instructors to use such devices as Apple TV or Roku in their classrooms. Devices on this network must be preregistered at multimediadevices.kent.edu. Laptops and smartphones should continue to use the university’s preferred wireless network, ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ Wireless. ...

Information Services is in the process of upgrading ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Banner ERP system from version 8x to 9. Updates to the administrative pages of the system are currently underway with testing in the development environment occurring over the next few months. The new version includes an updated user interface, which eliminates the reliance on the Oracle Forms technology. Additionally, seamless navigation between Banner 9 administrative pages and other areas still on the previous version has been enabled using the Application Navigator tool. According to Ellucian, the company responsible fo...

On September 8, 2017, Information Services hosted its annual 5S Day, a day focused on the LEAN methodology of improving efficiency and effectiveness by organizing and maintaining a clean, high-performance office environment. The five S’s stand for Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. The day started with a short lesson on the 5S Methodology by the Process and Evaluation team with additional information on the retention of records presented by Chris Muller, Manager of Enterprise Application Support. The main focus of the presentation was around the continual practice of staying...

KSUMobile is ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s app for accessing information about the university across all campuses. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, over 4,000 people have downloaded the app with an average of 70 new users each day. Since the initial release of the app, IS has delivered various updates to improve performance and add new features – the latest additions being live bus tracking and book-buying capabilities released last fall. IS is currently working on a new update that strives to make KSUMobile better than ever. Historically, any new changes, features, or functionalities would need t...

Information Services has initiated a project to install a new firewall that will better protect the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ community from Internet threats. ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ users are sent a barrage of malware, phishing attempts, and active hacking attacks. While the current system blocks a great number of these threats, the new firewall will be capable of intelligently, automatically, and proactively identifying and stopping most known malicious software and attacks without any intervention from IS staff, drastically reducing the impacts of these threats and increasing the safety of our network users. In add...

Beginning in Fall 2017, a portion of the university community will begin piloting a security enhancement to FlashLine called Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). MFA provides additional security protections whereby accessing an account requires a username, password and an additional factor that is randomly generated at login time. This additional factor can be distributed to a personal email address, cell phone via call or text, desk phone or through the use of an app on a smartphone. Using this additional authentication factor will drastically reduce and prevent impacts from compromised account...