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Kent State Celebrates Milestones and Memories at This Year’s Homecoming
It’s time to wear blue and gold as the Â鶹´«Ã½ Golden Flashes family reunites for Homecoming 2022. Kent State will celebrate Homecoming with activities and events leading up to the Oct. 1 Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game.
IN A FLASH: Kent State's First Female Athletes
Kent State's history of women's athletics goes back more than 100 years.
Wanna be Confident as Boss? LaunchNET Has Just the Course for You Â
Black Women Bosses (BWB) is designed to help participants learn leadership and business skills, gain community and practice self-care and confidence as an entrepreneur.
A Decade of Diversity Excellence: Kent State’s Diversity Commitment Recognized for 10th Consecutive Year
Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognized with the 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. The annual award recognizes U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.
In Puerto Rico and Kent, Hurricane Fiona Awakens Trauma Left by Maria Â
The family of Astrid N. Sambolin Morales, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Kent State, is dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. They have been without electricity since the storm hit Sunday Sept. 18, 2022.
Get Ready for the Most Spirited Week at Kent State
The first full week of fall is also the most spirited week at Â鶹´«Ã½. The week of Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 is Spirit Week and includes homecoming weekend at Kent State. The week will be full of events celebrating Kent State spirit.
Professors Who Train Future Teachers Travel to Rwanda to Exchange Ideas, Develop Partnerships
Two professors from Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s College of Education, Health and Human Services returned from a trip to the University of Rwanda (UR) energized by the new partnerships and collaborations they formed there.
Kent State Board of Trustees Welcomes Class of 2026, Approves Pizzuti Park Naming
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Board of Trustees welcomed the Class of 2026 at the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held Sept. 21 at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Airport. Kent State’s freshman class began classes on the Kent Campus nearly 7% larger than the previous year with 4,251 students – the eighth largest incoming class in the university’s 112-year history.
Kent State Is the Place to Be! First-Year Student Numbers Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Class of 2026 has arrived on the Kent Campus in strong numbers – 4,251 to be exact – an increase of nearly 7% over the previous year, the largest class since before the pandemic and the eighth largest incoming class in the university’s 112-year history.
IN A FLASH: Do you remember? It was the 21st night of September.
On this 21st day of September, we remember when Earth, Wind and Fire played at the Kent Student Center in October 1973.