Two-time Kent State University alumnus Eli Kalil, who is finishing up his first year as a Presidential Management Fellow at Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said his degrees prepared him well for the field of healthcare administration. Kalil, 26, was selected from among more than 8,000 candidates nationally to serve as a presidential management fellow, a role created in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter as a leadership development program to groom future generations of leaders for federal administrative positions.  He will spend two years as a f...

FLA Professor Tara Hudson conducted research with two students that uses the Loss/Momentum Framework to identify common barriers encountered by Ohio students at various phases of their journeys to transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. The study, which was funded by Ascendium Education Group, was featured in an article that recently appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Research reveals that the vast majority of first-year community college students have a desire to earn a bachelor’s degree. However, only about a third of those students actually transfer to a four-year ins...

In honor of Kent State University’s 113th birthday, Kent State launched its second annual Day of Giving May 19. This Day of Giving, the blue and gold community joined together to celebrate another trip around the sun for Kent State with more than 500 generous donors giving in support of student scholarships. The campaign also encouraged students to get involved by educating them about philanthropy and asking them to vote for the first annual Day of Giving Student Choice Award.  Voters could select from four key student support funds held in the KSU Foundation and created by the univers...