As we prepare for fall 2021, we are loosening our campus health guidelines. Given the recent changes in recommended health and safety protocols by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), changes in health requirements in Ohio and local communities, including the city of Kent, as well as the rapidly improving disease situation, we are revising our university practices. ...

Division of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement

Jeannette Reyes

Kent State University alumna Jeannette Reyes, ’12, uses TikTok for fun outside of her television anchor responsibilities at FOX 5 Washington, D.C. Last October, Reyes posted a video with her husband using their “anchor talk” voices to decide on choices for dinner. She never expected her video to gain so much momentum. “This video got 5 million views on Twitter and gained attraction from Jimmy Kimmel and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez commenting and retweeting,” Reyes said. “At that time, I probably had 25,000 followers on TikTok, and since then, it's grown to almost 700,000. After eight mont...

photo of students in competition

For the third year in a row, Kent State students have earned semi-finalist recognition in the national Effie Collegiate Brand Challenge. Advertising majors Mikayla Bailey, Julia O’Laughlin and Madelyn Tomkos, and public relations major Morgan Cummings, earned the recognition for their work on a marketing/communications challenge for the headphones brand Bose. Effie Collegiate is modeled after the professional U.S. competition of the same name. For the 2020-21 challenge, Bose and Effie Collegiate challenged the students to develop a comprehensive marketing campaign for the holiday season,...

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