International Healthcare Policies, United Kingdom

  While Kent State University may be a smoke-free campus, the state of Ohio is another story.Ohio has the fourth-highest rate of cigarette smoking in the country with about one-fifth of residents reported to still be smoking in 2019. This is 11.5% higher than the national average, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In other parts of the country, increased taxation for smokers has inspired a precipitous decline in rates of smoking. According to a recent article from Ohio Capital Journal, rates of smoking dropped from 20.9% in 2005 to 11.5% in 2021 thanks ...

During the summer of 2023, Sa Nai Russell, a senior at Akron Public Schools' Firestone Community Learning Center, spent five weeks at Kent State participating in a pilot program for the Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom Program.  Through this program, Russell, who attends the Akron School of the Arts program at Firestone, lived in a residence hall, read passages in books and engaged in meaningful discussions with other high school students about the multiple ways in which humans are interconnected with each other and what that interconnectedness means for citizenship, freedom, and h...