Welcome to the start of the Fall 2023 semester! Whether you are on campus for the first time or well along in your college journey, we're here to help you every step of the way.  Starting with this special message from Interim Dean Bill Ayres. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/52TSbCExDDA.jpg?itok=3xVEK0j6","video_url":"https://youtu.be/52TSbCExDDA","settings":{"responsive":1,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":0},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]} ...

Kent State University graduate and award-winning photojournalist Matthew Thayer has spent the past 43 years in Hawaii, working as a photojournalist for The Maui News. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism news, with a concentration in photojournalism, from Kent State in 1981. He’s won more than 35 state and national awards for his work, including for his photographs covering the tragic Aloha Airlines disaster in 1988. When Thayer was sent out to cover horse evacuations from the upcountry fires on Maui on Aug. 8, he never expected he would end up covering one of the worst ...