The Stow-Munroe Falls City School District in Northeast Ohio is sending a group of educators to attend Peace Education in an Era of Crisis, a conference in Kigali, Rwanda, being sponsored by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education.  Jeffrey Hartmann, Ph.D., principal of Stow-Munroe Falls High School, said he was interested in attending the conference to learn skills to deal with his school district’s changing landscape.  “Stow is a community that is increasing in its diversity,...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, today struck down the long-standing policy of affirmative action in college admissions on the grounds it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.   Kent State University Professor Christopher Banks, Ph.D., J.D., says the high court already had tipped its hand that the court was “positioned to jettison” the policy, so the ruling was not surprising.  Affirmative action in college admissions, firmly in place since 1978, allowed higher education institutions to consider race as an advantage factor in college admissions. T...

Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, The country has been awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on two cases that would decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education and, as we expected, the court struck down affirmative action as we have known it. The lawsuits – Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina – challenged the use of race-conscious admissions practices by colleges and universities. Kent State monitored the cases, and we have begun to ...