College of Arts and Sciences
![A group of students from the University of Fort Hare, in Alice, South Africa, are visiting Kent State. A group of students from the University of Fort Hare, in Alice, South Africa, are visiting Kent State.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/South%20African%20Students%20visit.jpg?VersionId=_XOHad6sDNTEabYnw8uB.xnA3kQjZAXz&itok=af0gh4dg)
Sounds of joyful singing could be heard coming from Oscar Ritchie Hall, when a group of nine students and their professor from the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa, were welcomed to Kent State University as part of an exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in South Africa.
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Testing Your Faith Act (H.B. 353) was enacted in the Spring 2023 semester. In ordinance with this bill, Kent State University created a new administrative policy for religious and spiritual accommodations. This administrative policy allows students to report up to three days of unexcused absences to participate in religious holidays or community-held events in alignment with their spirituality.
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Jennifer MacLure's book, The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction, was released in hardcover and digital on Nov. 2. In this book, MacLure examines the works of authors George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens and William Morris through the lens of necroeconomics. This book examines, in MacLure's words, how Victorian authors "depict the feelings that circulate around capitalism's death function."
![Image of book with pages tucked into heart shape: 4836 Free Book Images and Royalty-Free Stock Photos.” Freeimages, www.freeimages.com/search/book. Accessed 20 Nov. 2023. Image of book with pages tucked into heart shape: 4836 Free Book Images and Royalty-Free Stock Photos.” Freeimages, www.freeimages.com/search/book. Accessed 20 Nov. 2023.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/Paige_Book_Image.jpg?VersionId=UKppGdB3D2kgYd5eX_B.EDNl2jOsZ9eI&itok=Od1QMggo)
![The Herrick Conservatory by night. The Herrick Conservatory by night.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/384554764_333422866050470_6845440941825847826_n.jpg?VersionId=AYixrG1KTkFicDuzJrs6Fv1w_Pkk3DNK&itok=hezqJ8Ui)
The greenhouses behind Cunningham Hall cast a warm glow at night.
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![Ofrendas in the Kent Student Center for the Day of the Dead Ofrenda in the Kent Student Center for Day of the Dead](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/394117897_1069474507545093_122340460776355979_n.jpg?VersionId=WXbQpmup2TIpsp65_yvMHCb.mShqffJc&itok=LiCtyXRk)
The president of the Spanish and Latine Students Association shares the tradition of the Day of the Dead.
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![Kent State class of 2027 stands outside for class photo during ice cream social.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/styles/1_5_2_thumbnail/public/processed-A5F590C1-3FF2-47D0-9718-BEC861CAEEFE-0103E191-2DE3-4ACC-870C-E355917D66A0.jpeg?VersionId=ClLgzuQxe3G8vqhh0xDjb4ExvaTbKpJN&itok=QpSpZLja)