Kent Wired

Pamela Grimm retires after 30 years at Kent State

Sydney Pendergast, Reporter • June 17, 2022

After 30 years of being at Kent State, professor, department chair and Faculty Senate Chair Pamela Grimm officially retired on May 31. “I have ambivalent feelings about it,” Grimm said. Grimm...

Pamela Grimm announces her retirement at Faculty Senate

Alexandra Golden, Assigning Editor • April 12, 2022

Kent State’s Faculty Senate Chair Pamela Grimm announced her retirement during the April 11 meeting. “Pam was very good at presenting a multitude of faculty concerns because there were...

Kent State community mourns Kim Winebrenner, English professor who put ‘students first’

Lyndsey Brennan Reporter • January 23, 2021

Editor’s note: Kent State English professor Kimberly Winebrenner, 57, passed away unexpectedly Dec. 3, 2020, at Akron General Cleveland Clinic. The following is an appreciation of her life.Satterfield...

New pressure on Ohio governor, once hailed for virus action

Farnoush Amiri, Julie Carr Smyth and John Seewer, AP/Report for America • July 15, 2020

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Early during the coronavirus outbreak, Ohio's Republican governor appeared prophetic with his decisive steps to ban spectators from a sports expo, shut down all schools before any...

Kent State’s faculty buyout offer receives mixed reactions

Nicholas Hunter • October 28, 2017

Kent State will soon find out how many senior faculty will be retiring through a buyout offer, set to expire Nov. 6.Full-time faculty members who have either accrued at least 15 years of credited time...

Faculty ‘frustrated,’ ‘insulted’ with presidential search involvement

Jimmy Miller • February 9, 2014

Just before the Board of Trustees announced Beverly Warren as the next president of Kent State Jan. 8, a select few Faculty Senate members were interviewing her on the second floor of Rockwell Hall.“We...