In March 2021, Lacy Starling, '02, got a call from a community organization in northern Kentucky looking for a CEO for a start-up news organization.  They knew Starling only for her business background; after earning her Bachelor of Science in journalism from Kent State University, she went on to earn her M.B.A. For 20 years, she had been an entrepreneur.  "‘We want to start a news organization for northern Kentucky and we need a CEO,’” Starling remembers them saying. “They had no idea that I had a journalism degree, they just knew that I was an entrepreneur.” Starling says ...

Following an initial two-year period, Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) Chairman Richard Morrison recently returned to the Kent State University at Ashtabula Campus to announce a two-year renewal of the MFG Foundation Ashtabula County Scholarship program. As in the program’s first two years, the program is funding $50,000 in scholarships for the 2023-2024 academic year and $50,000 the following year. Scholarships may be applied to tuition, fees, books and supplies. “This scholarship program specifically is very important to us, as is education in general,” Morrison said. “An educated community is...