'Mama Drake' honors family through endowed scholarships
Alumnus' gift removes financial obstacles for students with unpaid internships
Couples' decades-long partnership helps direct their Centennial Campaign giving
Scholarships are the Centennial Campaign's largest priority. Learn more.
Alumna's Centennial Campaign commitment provides diversity scholarships
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The Centennial Campaign is raising $250 million from donors like you to help support Kent State's talented and deserving students.
Your contribution, during this critical time of growth at the university, helps lay the foundation and create resources for the next 100 years of excellence in education and research. And there are many ways to provide support, whether through a tax-deductible outright donation, planned gift that offers you guaranteed retirement income, or bequest.
Your Centennial Campaign support opens the door to help students walk through to their future. Learn more by visiting the links below and throughout this page.
Centennial Campaign Latest News
- Kent State Breaks Fundraising Record for Third Straight Year For the first time in its history, supporters to Kent State University have contributed more than $40 million in one year, breaking the institution’s fundraising record for the third year in a row. During the fiscal year ending June 30, private contributions to the public research university reached $42.1 million, beating last year’s total by more than $2 million.
- Posted Jul. 11, 2011 - ‘What do we love about the university?’ Couple’s decades-long partnership helps direct their Centennial Campaign gift
- Posted Apr. 12, 2011 - To Intern or Not Intern Alumnus’ Donation Removes Financial Obstacles for Unpaid Student Internships
- Posted Apr. 12, 2011 - 'Insuring' Future Student Success 'Mama Drake' Honors Family With Scholarship Endowments
- Posted Apr. 12, 2011 - From Vice President Gene Finn: Your Passions Drive Faculty and Staff Campaign Head of Institutional Advancement tells why annual internal fundraising effort gets its strength from individuals' vision of Kent State.
- Posted Apr. 8, 2011 - Kent State Student Philanthropy Campaign Awards First Scholarship Kent State's Campaign for Change, the university's student philanthropy initiative, celebrated a major milestone this month in awarding its first scholarship to Kenneth Smith, a junior aeronautical systems engineering major.
- Posted Jan. 31, 2011 - View Photos from the Dedication of the Roe Green Center Theatre and dance facility unites performing arts under one roof for the first time at Kent State.
- Posted Nov. 17, 2010
Actual year-to-date
$256 million
Goal exceeded...Thank You!
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Kent, OH 44242-0001
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