The Secret Is Out: Kent Named 1 of Zillow’s Top 2 College Towns for 2023

A cyclist bikes through Risman Plaza on the Kent State University Kent Campus.

The home base for Kent State University was named among the top two college towns in the U.S. (defined as a city with at least 20% of the population enrolled in higher education) by online real estate platform Zillow, coming in second to West Chester, Pennsylvania. Among the list of Top 10 most popular markets on Zillow this year were two other Northeast Ohio locations: Twinsburg (where the Kent State Twinsburg Academic Center just happens to be located) and Stow, a neighboring community to our beloved college town and home of the Kent State University Airport. Vermillion, Ohio, w...

The Vocal Majority: 1969

The Vocal Majority: 1969 is an exhibit of the May 4 Visitors Center. The exhibit was created by Skylar Wrisley, designed by Ariel Bradford and Jennifer Goubeaux, and was temporarily on display in the May 4 Reflections Gallery in the Spring and Summer of 2023. 

This exhibit is meant to complement Kent State's story of May 4, 1970 by presenting some of the preceding events in the Fall of 1969. While the Vocal Majority highlights the experiences of Kent State students, this story has national significance and massive participation in a series of the largest antiwar demonstrations in U.S. history. These experiences are captured in photos, newspaper articles, flyers, posters, and artifacts. The protest in the Fall Antiwar Offensive in 1969 can be used to better understand what prompted the following events in the Spring of 1970.

Section Officers

Section Officers 2026-2027 

 Chair: Courtney S. Thomas Tobin, University of California, Los Angeles

 Chair Elect: Christy Erving, University of Texas at Austin
 Past Chair: Anna Mueller, Indiana University

 Secretary-Treasurer: Jun Zhao, University of South Carolina
 Council Member-at-Large: Marta Elliott, University of Nevada-Reno
 Nominations Committee Chair: Jason L. Cummings, Loyola University Chicago

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Brains on Tap and the Brain Health Research Institute present:

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Mentorship Program

Mission Statement

The purpose of this program is to connect graduate students with research interests in the sociology of mental health to a faculty mentor with a similar research area of interest at a different institutional setting.  

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