Kent State University at Stark recognizes that the Conference Center has been a valued community resource for many years. However, in a time of tightening budgets and limited state funding for higher education, the campus can no longer absorb the large costs associated with keeping the facility open.To ensure continued focus on its core mission — providing high-quality, student-centered education — the campus will end external event rentals at the Stark Conference Center after Sept. 30, 2025.While the decision was not made lightly, it reflects a broader effort to sustain academic strength and ...

 Based on the hit movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “School of Rock–The Musical” is the story of a slacker who plays in a local band who stumbles into a substitute teaching job at an upscale prep school.    In the classroom he is inspired to turn a group of quiet, straight-A students into a full-on, rollicking rock band in time for a "Battle of the Bands" competition. But can he do it before the school's stuffy headmistress finds out?   The show opened on July 18 at Kent State's Porthouse Theatre, located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center and runs throug...