KENT, Ohio – Research conducted by two Kent State accounting faculty members has shown that tribal governments pay 22% to 87% higher borrowing costs on municipal bonds (government borrowing) compared to state and local entities. Serena Loftus, Ph.D., and R.Z. Zhang, Ph.D., both assistant professors of accounting at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, along with colleague Sarah Shonka McCoy, Ph.D., assistant professor of accounting at the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management, recently presented their study, “Native American Government...

Changes are coming to the Kent State University at Tuscarawas nursing program this spring. Starting in January of 2023, the Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program will begin offering admissions to the program two times a year, for both the fall and spring semesters. This transition will benefit those students who might have had to delay starting in the fall. Previously, students applying to the program in the summer needed to wait a year to enter the ADN program. Now, students will be able to start nursing classes in January. Offering all nursing courses each semester will also provide s...

Kent State University's Explore Kent, Go! web pages give the Kent State community the ability to explore Kent State’s campus, downtown Kent and surrounding cities.  Next in the “Where on the Web?” series, the focal point is the Explore Kent, Go! web pages at www.kent.edu/go. The Explore Kent, Go! web pages are an introduction to the diverse opportunities offered by the university’s niche area in the Midwest, according to Lin Danes, director of Web Services and Interactive Media at Kent State. Although the web pages are mainly for prospective and current Kent State students, staff...