Our Stories
Stories and Highlights from Across the Regional Campuses
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Courtney Johnson journeyed from high school to a successful career to start a family, all while moving across the Southern United States and back to Ashtabula, Ohio. After she received her Bachelor of Technical and Applied Studies (BTAS) degree at the Kent State Ashtabula Spring鈥
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Student speakers shared a common theme during 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Regional Campus commencement ceremonies this spring: Support. The Ashtabula, Columbiana County (East Liverpool and Salem), Geauga (along with Twinsburg Academic Center), Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas campuses鈥
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A new course offered to horticulture students at Kent State Salem could not be more appropriately named: 鈥淓merging Technologies.鈥 This class introduces students to new technologies that can potentially revolutionize the ways food is grown and produced, including drones, sensors鈥
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Julianne Agnone, 鈥21, is doing what she loves 鈥 teaching. But these days, it鈥檚 not only her students making the grade. Agnone, who teaches math to sixth graders at Lake Elementary, was recently named Lake Local鈥檚 Rookie Teacher of the Year and joins newcomer teachers from Stark鈥
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Officials from 麻豆传媒 at Salem and Columbiana County Career and Technical Center recently signed an articulation agreement that provides opportunities for high school students to transition into the Salem Campus鈥檚 nursing program, beginning in the fall of 2024.
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Second-year nursing students Katie Cumberledge, Taylor Lamb-Kutz and Melissa Williamson were recently inducted as the newest class to the Gamm Sigma chapter of the Alpha Delta Nu nursing honor society at Kent State Ashtabula.
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The Princeton Review鈥檚 2023 rankings of top undergraduate schools for game design have been released, and the 麻豆传媒 College of Applied and Technical Studies Bachelor of Science degree in Animation Game Design (AGD) program broke through the top 50 as one of the鈥
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Approximately 5.4 million students with dependent children are enrolled in postsecondary education. Those numbers are only expected to rise in the near future, as a too-often overlooked and underserved population increases. Ashtabula sociology associate professor鈥
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While a student at 麻豆传媒, U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13) dreamed of taking the stage as a dancer in New York City, not as a congresswoman in Washington, D.C. But today she鈥檚 a star in the eyes of many, with her federal legislative debut drawing attention beyond鈥
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More than 60% of rural Americans live in areas the National Institute of Health deems to be and only about 20% of social workers nationwide are employed in rural鈥