The Stevens Family Scholarship Becomes University’s Largest Gift of Fiscal Year 2017 Kent State University has received a $3.1 million gift for a College of Business Administration scholarship endowment from the estate of Kent State alumnus Joseph Stevens. The Stevens Family Scholarship for the College of Business Administration was established by Joseph and Frances Stevens. Mr. Stevens earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Kent State in 1941. “We are grateful that the Stevens family’s tremendous support will enable us to provide additional scholarship opportunitie...
You can break the mold and help shape the future for Kent State University at Tuscarawas students this fall! Join the Tuscarawas County University Foundation as it launches the 2017 For the Future annual campaign to benefit local Kent State Tuscarawas students. The campaign will kick off at Kent State Tuscarawas October 18 with an open house and luncheon for the campus community and business and civic leaders from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Remarks will be made at 12:15 p.m. As part of the public fund drive, the Foundation will have a special business campaign. The corpora...
WHAT: As the university ushers in a new academic year of learning and service, Kent State University President Beverly Warren looks forward to sharing the accomplishments that Kent State students, faculty, staff and alumni make each day. The 2017 State of the University Address will occur Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva. Kent State faculty, staff, students and members of the community are invited to attend the event to reflect on the achievements of the past year and focus on the future as the university community moves Kent State forward with purpose and p...
Fossilized dinosaur feces, dating back 75-million years ago, has scientists rethinking the eating habits of certain dinosaurs. Instead of consuming plants, some herbivores from the Cretaceous period also snacked on crustaceans, including lobsters, crab and shrimp. Kent State University’s Professor Emeritus Rodney Feldmann and Jessica Tashman, a doctoral student in the Department of Geology in Kent State’s College of Arts and Sciences, authored the study along with Karen Chin, associate professor and curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Museum of Natural Histo...
College of Communication & Information
Written By Stephanie Walton, TeleProductions Public Relations Assistant TeleProductions is saying goodbye to three of its graduating student employees; Madison Bitzel, Susanne Ketchum, and Patrick Kern will be walking across the Kent State University stage this fall and into their new careers. TeleProductions is an important aspect of these students’ college career because it gives them relevant work experience and will serve as a stepping stone into their career of choice. All three graduating seniors have received the opportunity to work in many differe...
Kent Campus
Come one, come all to help attempt to break the world record of the World's Largest Barefoot Painted Mural! Painting began Sept. 30 at the Kent Creativity Festival. Everyone from newborn to 105 can help make this 30,000-square-foot mural a reality and a sign of hope to all of the negativity flooding the news. Help paint the mural on Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. at the Kent State University Commons. Let's paint the world, step by step! Read more from the Record Courier. ...
College of Communication & Information
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) held its September 2017 “Super-Regional” BEA On-Location conference at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Penn. Zachary Humphries, doctoral student of the Kent State University College of Communication and Information, and Paul Haridakis, Ph.D., School of Communication Studies professor, earned second place Debut Research Paper for their work on, “The President and the Executive Order: Cable News Coverage of President Trump’s Travel Ban.” “During the first two weeks of his Presidency, for example, President Donald Tru...
Our Mission
At Kent State, we recognize in order to become a distinctive university, we must champion a community which speaks to meaningful voice; not for some, but for all. Therefore, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has to be paramount in transforming lives of those whom we serve. The Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) recognizes that embracing diversity is essential to sustaining an inclusive, non-discriminatory, welcoming and highly productive workplace and learning environment for all members of the university community.