The Women’s Center is excited to announce the (R)Evolution Leadership program is officially on the books as a Kent State University Fall 2019 course!  “We started this program because we knew we needed a way to bring students together with their peers and provide networking opportunities with leaders across campus and the community,” shared Women’s Center Director, Cassandra Pegg-Kirby. According to the American Association of University Women (AAUW), there is a need for women leadership programs. Although women make up more than half of the population, “In universities, businesses and...

The Student Multicultural Center (SMC) kicked off our Academic Year by welcoming over 240 first year and new transfer students to Kent State University during our Kupita/Transiciones (K/T) cultural orientation program. The program focuses on ways to culturally affirm our students, build community and enhance their sense of belonging to Kent State University. By the end of the fourth day of K/T, we really felt the sense of family amongst the new students, our upperclassmen, and our faculty and staff.    In Fall 2020, The Male Empowerment Network (MEN) will be celebrating the 10th an...

On Saturday, September 21, 2019, the Kent State University LGBTQ+ Center participated in the annual Homecoming Parade, as well as hosting the fourth annual Homecoming TailGAYte at Bricco Kent. Around 20 students, faculty and staff members marched in the Parade, and passed out rainbow bead necklaces as well as information about the upcoming Rainbow Run fundraiser. The TailGAYte event was co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Center and the KSU LGBTQ+ Alumni Chapter. The event brought together nearly 100 attendees, representing a mix of current students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members. Als...

Kent State University Police arrested Christopher Eugene Clark, age 21, of Newton Falls, Ohio, for gross sexual imposition, assault and obstructing official business in connection to an incident that occurred Tuesday morning near the fitness track behind DeWeese Health Center on the Kent Campus. Clark is not a Kent State student. At approximately 10 a.m., a female student was walking on the west side of the fitness track. A white male about six feet tall with dark shorter hair and facial scruff approached the female and pulled her lower garments down. The female fell during the encounter, s...

Even Kent State University’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when Kent State faces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison. Diacon and Furtado hold graduate degrees from UW-Madison and met at the university more than 30 years ago. Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from UW-Madison in 2007 and p...

*For media planning purposes, Kent State University is providing this monthly email that outlines all planned events for the upcoming month related to the 50th commemoration of May 4. For the latest updates on events, visit www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/event-schedule. ‘PTSD: From May 4 Through Today’ Panel Discussion (Oct. 2, Kent Student Center Kiva) Kent State University alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless will share her story of May 4 as part of a panel discussion titled “PTSD: From May 4 Through Present Day” during the Kent State College of Nursing’s May 4 Commemoration event. The pa...