The LGBTQ Student Center is hosting its annual Rainbow Run this year on September 21, 2018 at 7pm in Risman Plaza. Formerly known as That Gay 5K, the Rainbow Run is a fun 5k where participants can run, walk, and roll their way to the finish line! The event started 3 years ago when former intern, Blake Kinsel, saw the financial challenges a lot of LGBTQ+ students face and wanted to create a sustainable fundraiser for the Center鈥檚 Emergency Fund. He researched and planned a color run, which had 100 people register and 50 people actively participate. The second year the glow run that continues to...
Faculty, staff, students and visitors to Kent State University will no longer have to deal with orange barrels, detours, and traffic delays on Summit Street. After more than two years of construction, the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of fall classes. Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume in the construction area on Aug. 15, weather permitting. The project, which was managed by the City of Kent, began in the spring of 2016 and made improvements to a one-mile...
Kent State President Beverly Warren to Share Lessons, Learnings and Remembrances of May 4, Wednesday at Chautauqua Institution
Kent State University President Beverly J. Warren will be among the featured lecturers during the Chautauqua Institution鈥檚 weeklong investigation of 鈥淭he Forgotten: History and Memory in the 21st Century,鈥 which runs through Aug. 18. President Warren will speak at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Chautauqua Amphitheater on the institution grounds. Kent State鈥檚 global family of alumni, scholars, students and friends are invited to visit the Kent State May 4 50 Years Commemoration page to watch the speech live and to join in this opportunity to reflect and share l...
Video: New Roundabout and HAWK Beacons at Kent State
A new roundabout, at the intersection of Campus Center Drive and Risman Drive, has multiple lanes and HAWK Beacons. ...
Summit Street Improvement Project Nearing Completion
Faculty, staff, students and visitors to Kent State University will no longer have to deal with orange barrels, detours and traffic delays on Summit Street. After more than two years of construction, the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project is scheduled to be completed in time for the start of fall classes. Two-way traffic is scheduled to resume in the construction area on Aug. 15, weather permitting. The project, which was managed by the city of Kent, began in the spring of 2016 and made improvements to a one-mile stretch of roadway between Lincoln...
The Kent State University alumni network will again grow its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes get their degrees. Kent State University will hold its Summer 2018 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). The Kent Campus will confer 1,325 degrees, including 834 bachelor鈥檚 degrees, 410 master鈥檚 degrees, 68 doctoral degrees and 13 educational specialist degrees. Across the university鈥檚 eight-campus system, 1,487 students will graduate from Kent State this summer, including those rec...
Kent State University at Geauga has a long-standing tradition of a Dean鈥檚 Advisory Board. The members of this board give of their time and talents to advise & connect Dean Spalsbury and her staff for the betterment of our students. Recently they went one-step further by giving of their treasures as well. They established the Kent State University Geauga and Regional Academic Center, Advisory Board Scholarship. 鈥淭he scholarship will be for one student from the Burton campus and one student at the Regional Academic Center in Twinsburg,鈥 said Rich Frenchie, volunteer Advisory Board chair.&...
There are a few guaranteed things in Geauga County. Like it will snow, probably a lot, maple sugaring is a holiday here, and the Great Geauga County Fair is a Labor Day weekend tradition. This year Kent State University at Geauga will be hosting a pre-fair tailgate on Saturday, September 1, 2018 at the Burton campus. We are inviting current KSU at Geauga students and ALL KSU alums that live in Geauga County to join us from 11a.m. 鈥 1p.m. at the Burton Campus for close parking, burgers and dogs, fun games, a visit from Flash the mascot, some great photo ops AND a FREE ticket to t...