Dear Kent State University Faculty, Staff and Students, In preparation for honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Kent State’s Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee is requesting that university divisions, departments and student organizations submit programming, activities and events (scheduled Jan. 25-31, 2021) to the MLK Events Calendar. We recommend that programming follows the university’s Events and Activities Guidelines. Please click here to a submit a program for inclusion to the MLK Events Calendar by Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Direc...

 “We recognize the most important members of our team aren't on the football field” Kent State President Todd Diacon said in a new video honoring the university’s MVPs – our front line employees.   The video included Golden Flashes quarterback Dustin Crum, wide receiver Isaac Vance and defensive end Zayin West who each thanked those who continue to work behind the scenes and on the frontline to keep the Kent State community safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. This commercial was produced by Kent State's University Communications and Marketing staff.   West shouted out Mich...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m. to consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. All actions of the Board will be taken at this business meeting.   Due to current public health restrictions at the Kent Campus limiting meetings to 10 or fewer participants, the Board of Trustees meetings will be held as follows. All meetings will be conducted remotely in accordance with Amended Substitute House Bill 197.   On Dec. 1, meetings of the full Boar...

Through multiple organizations and collaborations on and off campus, Kent State University ended 2019 as a more sustainable campus. Those who contributed to sustainable efforts worked hard to reduce the university’s carbon footprint leading to the university being honored as a finalist for the 2020 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Campus Sustainability Achievement Award  along with the 2019 Keep Ohio Beautiful award for Colleges and Universities. Kent State was chosen as a finalist out of about 400 submissions toAASHE. The AASHE Sustainabili...

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI, is a standardized psychometric test that was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1943 and quickly became the gold standard for assessing psychopathology. Kent State University has played a key role throughout the history of this test and a Kent State faculty member led the revision for the recently published and updated 2020 MMPI-3.  Yossef Ben-Porath, Ph.D., continues Kent State’s legacy as a major contributor of research for the MMPI. A professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Ar...

Congratulations to professor Yuko Kurahashi, Ph.D. on her receipt of Kent State University's 2020 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award for her exceptional contribution to theatre scholarship and research.  Professor Kurahashi's areas of specialty include multicultural theatre, community-based theatre, and intercultural theatre. She is the author of Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players (Garland, 1999) and Multicultural Theatre (Kendall/Hunt, 2004 & 2006). Most recently, she authored the first autobiography of world renown...