Lou Holtz, ’59, one of the most successful college football coaches of all time, proudly received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump in December. Holtz is the only coach in the history of collegiate football who took six different teams to a bowl game, won five bowl games with different teams and had four college teams ranked in the final Top 20 poll. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Kent State University and a master's degree in arts and education from Iowa. Read about Holtz’s Kent State experiences excerpted from a 2010 interview:&n...
Kent State University’s inaugural drive-thru food distribution event on Dec. 16 in partnership with the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank served more than 200 households. The event was also an unofficial kickoff to an impactful partnership. The Campus Kitchen at Kent State teamed up with the food bank to host a contactless food distribution event at Dix Stadium to help those in need and marked the beginning of a multimonth initiative. The team from the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank reached out to the Campus Kitchen at Kent State after receiving a grant from Feeding America to b...
The Kent State University Police Department was recently awarded national accreditation for the ninth time by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) in the Law Enforcement program. The Kent State Police Department was first accredited in 1991. Following four annual documentation reviews and a meticulous site-based assessment of community engagement, policy, procedures, equipment and facilities by CALEA assessors, the Kent State Police Department was presented for review at CALEA’s 2020 Conference. Each agency being reviewed goes before CALEA’s 21-member Bo...
Kent State University will implement a new administrative policy regarding painting the Rock, which is located on Hilltop Drive on the Kent Campus. The policy, which goes into effect Jan. 11, 2021, is one of the institutional responses to racially offensive language that was painted on the Rock in 2020 and aimed at African American students. The purpose of the policy is to promote consistency between the use of the Rock and other similar policies that provide procedures that will not interfere with the university functions of teaching, research, public service, administration or autho...
Dean Angela Spalsbury invited faculty, staff, and students to nominate Kent State Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center full-time and part-time faculty members as well as a full-time or part-time staff member to be selected for the Fall 2020 Excellence Awards. The faculty award recognizes the importance placed on superior teaching and encourages teaching achievement. The staff award is equally important but emphasizes an employee who supports the day-to-day operations of the two-site campus and the Students First priority. Dean Spalsbury is thrilled to announce the Fall 2020 Excellence Aw...
Division of People, Culture and Belonging
Richard Feinberg, Anthropology, Authored a journal article Cross-Cultural Fieldwork: The Heart of Anthropological Research, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Anthropologia culturalis, Jakub Havlicek, Volume 10, Issue 1, (2020): 5-17. ...