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Dear Members of the Kent State University Community: The White House announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, has raised concerns among students and their families — including the Kent State family. The DACA program has provided a path to citizenship for approximately 800,000 undocumented young people, who came to the United States with their parents as small children. These hard-working young people in the DACA program are the living embodiment of the American dream and include students who have enriched our communities. Kent State University will...

On Wednesday, Sept. 6, Master Sergeant Troy Eckenrode and his wife and Kent State University at Trumbull staff member, Maribeth Eckenrode, presented the campus with the Flag of our country, “Old Glory.” The flag was originally flown on Nov. 5, 2016, aboard a C-130H in the face of the enemy during a combat mission against ISIS forces in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. It was on board aircraft 90-9108, call sign Bandage 32, operating over the skies of Iraq. Maribeth presented the flag to teammates in Enrollment Management and Student Services because of their support while Troy was ...

The Kent Stater and TV2 are up for several national awards from the College Media Assocation (CMA) for work produced during the 2016-17 academic year. The Kent Stater, Kent State University’s independent student newspaper, is one of four finalists for CMA's Pinnacle Award for Four-Year Daily Newspaper of the Year.  With this final four distinction, the Stater, joins the ranks of The Daily Northwestern of Northwestern University, The Daily Texan, of the University of Texas at Austin and The Daily Pennsylvanian of the University of Pennsylvania. Alumnus Jimmy Miller, ...

Collaboration is anything but virtual between Kent State University at Stark and Kent State University at Tuscarawas. In fact, the computer design, animation and game design partnership has been a reality for nearly a decade. This fall, Kent State Stark will host students in a newly designed classroom and Virtual Reality Room in Main Hall. “What is it we need to do to accommodate this growing program? That was our first question,” says A. Bathi Kasturiarachi, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs at Kent State Stark. “Prior to this point, the program had been based at Kent Stat...

Herb Page, Kent State University’s director of golf and head men’s golf coach, has been selected to serve as one of the head coaches of the International team at the 2018 Arnold Palmer Cup on July 6-8 at Evian Resort Golf Club in France. Page will team with Stanford University head women’s coach Anne Walker as the top college golfers from around the world take on the top college golfers in the United States. The 2018 event expands the Ryder Cup-style team format that previously featured college players from Europe battling the USA. It is also the only major tournament in the world that will...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2:45 p.m. in the Timken Active Learning Classroom (Room 190) in the new Integrated Sciences Building. Adjacent to the Student Green and Williams Hall, the Integrated Sciences Building is located at 1175 Lefton Esplanade in Kent, Ohio. Trustees will retire into executive session from 7:30-9 a.m. in Room 251G to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” Board committees will meet as follows: Committee of the Whol...