Kent State University will hold its Spring 2016 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center, and on Friday, May 20, at Cartwright Hall. Kent State will confer 4,210 degrees, including 3,067 bachelor’s degrees, 968 master’s degrees, 169 doctoral degrees and six educational specialist degrees. Across the university’s eight-campus system, 5,226 students will graduate from Kent State this spring, including those receiving associate degrees. Friday, May 13, at 6 p.m. The 6 p.m. ceremony on Friday, May ...
The annual fashion show, “FS²: Crescendo,” highlighted the outstanding talents of the Kent State University Fashion School’s design and merchandising students. ...
Kent State University at Stark faculty and staff gathered in the Campus Center to recognize the 2016 Staff Excellence Award recipients. Bobbi Groves, administrative clerk for Student Services, was the staff recipient, and Jared Weber, senior IT user support analyst with Network Services, was the administrator recipient. Several weeks prior to the ceremony, the campus community was asked to nominate a staff member or administrator with a written recommendation supporting the person they thought deserved to be recognized. Criteria for nominations included: Gives 1...
Athletics attracts students from around the globe Many international student-athletes say that Kent State University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has gone above and beyond to make their transition to the U.S. as comfortable as possible. The university offers international students a welcoming and team-driven environment, both academically and athletically. “Kent State University has allowed me to do just about everything I have wanted to do,” says Dior Delophont, senior fashion design major and standout women’s track and field competitor at Kent State. Putting Empha...
Kent State competes in national fitness initiative Kent State University is competing against employers across the country in the On The Move Challenge, a 12-week corporate fitness challenge promoting more movement throughout the workday. Nationwide, On The Move has 84 participating companies and 78,075 total participants. The companies are grouped by enterprises, businesses with more than 100 employees and small businesses – companies with fewer than 100 employees. Kent State is competing in the enterprise category and ranks between 25 and 27 of 55 companies, depending on the week. Te...
Students from Kent State East Liverpool’s occupational therapy assistant program gathered at the downtown entrance ramp to the city to help spruce up the “serpentine” landscape of that area by pulling weeds, trimming shrubs, raking mulch and picking up litter. They joined efforts with the East Liverpool-Calcutta Garden Club members, who maintain that area of the city’s landscape. Once finished, the students walked to The Locke House and cleaned up the landscaping and lawn at that location. # # # Inside Photo: East Liverpool Mayor Ryan Stovall caught up with OTA students who were w...
In 2014, less than four years after Continental and United announced that the airlines were merging operations, the newly expanded United shut down its hub at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Since that time, the number of nonstop flights from the airport has dwindled from 58 to 15 – a nearly 75 percent decrease in two years. The loss of direct access to a long list of destinations across the country was another blow to air travel at nearby large regional airports. In the past decade, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati also lost their hub status. Beginning May 3 and airing on four consecutive Tuesdays, WK...
Kent State University at East Liverpool received a contribution from Heritage Thermal Services that will benefit the students in its physical therapist assistant program by giving them the latest technology for learning bedside documentation. Four laptop computers and four special carts were purchased by Heritage Thermal that will allow the students to learn point-of-care documentation as part of their curriculum. “We are thrilled that Heritage Thermal could provide our program with these point-of-treatment documentation stations,” noted Dr. Darryl Hancock, associate professor of physical th...
The Kent State Salem Campus paid tribute to community members, faculty, students and staff who are U.S. military veterans during a flag raising ceremony at the new front entrance to the building. Under a beautiful blue sky and with a crisp breeze, members of the Salem AMVETS Post 45 honor guard raised the U.S. flag while Peggy Elliott, a member of the Communiversity Choir, sang the national anthem. Following the flag-raising, drill team members performed a 21-gun salute. Over recent months, the front entrance was completely redesigned and renovated, which eliminated the previous flag pole. ...
More than 100 reel-to-reel audio recordings pertaining to the May 4, 1970, Kent State University shootings and their aftermath are now accessible through the Kent State University Special Collections and Archives’ digital repository. Some of the recently digitized items include previously inaccessible audio recordings of radio call-in forums, a speech by Kent State President Robert I. White the day after the shootings, a press conference with six students who met with President Richard M. Nixon just days after the shootings, the Scranton Commission hearings and a speech made by Dick Gregory at...