Alumnus Ben Fischer, '04, Mandy's husband, announced the scholarship last month at the @ONA Conference, where Mandy received the Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award posthumously.
📷 Ceremony Photos: Joe Mac Company for the Online News Association
The Mandy Jenkins Memorial Scholarship has raised more than $19,000! The scholarship will support a @KentState student in a student media leadership role.
Be part of honoring this extraordinary alumna's legacy by making your gift here: https://t.co/9xMYukCxQ1
We will never Forget 9/11. Today marks 22 years since the tragedy. Read about the aftermath of 9/11 for the Daily Kent Stater and what they remember on September 11, 2001. https://t.co/ou2PxT3mxN
Mandy loved the work, friends and mission of student media. She felt very strongly that journalism suffers if it excludes the working and middle classes. This scholarship will support a student who is in a @KentState_SM newsroom leadership role.
We are pleased to announce the Mandy Jenkins Memorial Scholarship, which will honor the legacy of Mandy Jenkins, a two-time alum of @kentstate and our school.
Learn more, and make your gift here: https://t.co/9xMYukCxQ1
They're ready for their red carpet moment 🤩
Tune in tomorrow (6/17) at 7:45pm EST to watch as our students produce the backstage livestream of the @GreatLakesEmmys Awards. Watch at: https://t.co/QXSVAMhyke
Public Relations and Advertising seniors are wrapping up their capstone projects with @SherwinWilliams! We're looking forward to their presentations next week.
Assistant Professor and filmmaker Dana White is an Individual Excellence Award recipient from @OhioArtsCouncil for 2023 🎬
Read more about her work and this honor: https://t.co/6543bQyyCh
We're so proud of senior Sophie Young, who will be interning at @nytimes this summer through the @DJNF (Dow Jones News Fund)!
🔗Read more about her here: https://t.co/fgLQRlGsGK
I’m so excited to finally announce my favorite news! I will be an intern at The New York Times this summer through the @DJNF multiplatform editing program. I wouldn’t be here without @szake1961, @jacquiemarino, @mmckenney, @kmdilley and my family. I’m so blessed.
#djnfedit2023
So proud to share these photos from alumna Ailene Joven's short film screening at @CIFF last week 🤩
More on her accomplishment: https://t.co/GINjkIDuRn
#flashesforever#CIFF47@KSUAlumni
In honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, we want to thank all of our graduate students for their hard work and contributions across the college!
Check out the week of activities hosted by @GradCollege_KSU and campus partners: https://t.co/VeZf4HuPiI
Connie Schultz, ’79, is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist @USAToday and author of the New York Times bestselling novel, “The Daughters of Erietown.” She is also a Professional in Residence @KentStateMDJ. For nearly 20 years, Schultz was a reporter and columnist @ThePlainDealer.
Thursday was “KSU at CIFF night” and a group of Kent State faculty and students attended a screening of “Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities” at Cleveland’s historic Allen Theater on Playhouse Square. https://t.co/82W4aI8Skr
Digital media production alumna Ailene Joven, '21, began creating the short film "Define" as a @kentstate student during the early days of the pandemic.
Several years later, it will screen at @CIFF — a "phenomenal" achievement.
#CIFF47@KSUAlumni
https://t.co/GINjkIDuRn
🎙In this episode of Around the Sphere podcast, two MDJ students, Lauren Blue (advertising) and Kaitlyn Finchler (journalism), discuss how they feel about graduation, how they are dealing with the job search and their time at Kent State.
Listen here: https://t.co/87LpG5yJZo
It was an honor to host Terry O'Reilly, nat'l chair of @TheEmmys & @AdamS, NATAS CEO, for a discussion with @kentstate students last week.
Read about their visit & the opportunity students will have to produce the @GreatLakesEmmys backstage stream soon: https://t.co/yobpJavc4n
It’s time to PRactice Publishing with MDJ Professor, Bestselling Author AND Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist Connie Schultz. This is going to be an awesome event! We also want to welcome everyone to come at 6:30 p.m. for a Youngstown cookie table!📚