On May 10, 2025, Kent State University at Stark proudly hosted its 52nd Spring Commencement Ceremony at the campus’s Conference Center, celebrating the academic achievements of students who earned associate and bachelor’s degrees. The event marked a pivotal milestone in the lives of 104 graduates and served as a testament to their perseverance, dedication and academic excellence.The ceremony brought together a vibrant community of family members, friends, faculty and staff, who filled the venue with applause and heartfelt emotion. Graduates were honored not only for their academic accomplishme...
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K.S.U. Victory March
Words by Ralph E. Hartzell
Music by Douglas Chapman
Dedicated to the K.S.U. Band and Roy D. Metcalf, Director
Fight for K.S.U.
Bring vict’ry home,
For gold and blue.
We’ll show to all our foes we’re out to win;
With might and main we’ll raise a triumph din,
Thru thick and thin.
Honor team and school
We’ll meet our foes with courage cool,
Then join the welkin, let your voices ring,
And to our Alma Mater sing.
Kent State Hymn
Words by Eric Griebling
Original music composition by Johannes Brahms
Arr. Hugh Glauser
The blue of the morning, the gold of the noon day sky.
Declare Kent State’s glory her colors that proudly wave on high.
Her faith in our future, in our powers, in our daily strife.
Oh! Kent we promise to love thee forever,
Kent Alma Mater the joy of our college days.
Oh, Kent Alma Mater we love and will praise thee always.
Alma Mater
“Hail to Thee, Our Alma Mater”
Words by E. Turner Stump
Music by Dwight Steeere
From the beauty land Ohio comes a universal praise,
'Tis the song of Alma Mater that her sons and daughters raise.
'Tis a Hail to Kent forever, on the Cuyahoga shore,
Now we join the loving thousands as they sing it o'er and o'er.
Hail to Thee, our Alma Mater.
O, how beautiful Thou art,
High enthroned upon the hilltop,
Reigning over every heart.
Fight Song
“Fight On For K.S.U.”
Words and Music by Ed Siennicki
Dedicated to the K.S.U. Band and Roy D. Metcalf, Director
Fight on for KSU,
Fight for the Blue and Gold!
We're out to beat the foe;
Fight on brave and bold!
Fight on for victory,
Don't stop until we're through.
We're all together,
Let's go forward, K-S-U!
Explore Special Collections and Archives in University Libraries
Special Collections and Archives, housed by University Libraries, has a variety of digital collections that can be browsed online.
Explore Past Issues of the Daily Kent Stater
The Daily Kent Stater Digital Archive includes every print edition issue of the Kent Stater/Daily Kent Stater campus newspaper. The project, funded by the Kent State University Libraries, includes issues dating from February 1926 as well as issues of Kent Summer News/Summer Kent Stater issues from the 1950s through the 2000s.
Explore the Chestnut Burr Digital Archive
Take a trip down memory lane and browse through old editions of Kent State’s yearbook, the Chestnut Burr. The Chestnut Burr was the Kent State University student-produced yearbook, published from 1914 through 1985.