KENT, Ohio – Research conducted by Kent State and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university. C. Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., professor of economics at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, along with co-author Timothy Harris, assistant professor of economics at Illinois State, studied data provided by a large public university to help better understand how a COVID-19 diagnosis affected student success in higher education. While the impacts of the pandemic on higher education have been...

The Student Nurses Association at Kent State East Liverpool spearheaded a project to help provide gifts for 100 local children through the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree project. Students, faculty and staff across campus participated in the outreach effort, collecting baby dolls, trucks, games, Legos, other toys, coats, clothing and four bikes. Angela Douglass, senior lecturer in the ADN program on the East Liverpool Campus, helped the students organize the outreach project and noted that this partnership has continued for 20 years. “The spirit of giving is evident each year,” she said. ...