Kent State President Todd Diacon cheers on the graduating students during the university's fall 2025 commencement.

POV shares insights from the Kent State University community on important topics. In this essay for Kent State Today, Kent State University President Todd Diacon offers insight into the ongoing discussions over the future of public higher education in Ohio.  In his POV essay, Diacon shares his thoughts on “centers of excellence” and how they’re rooted in Kent State’s history.The idea of “centers of excellence” has entered Ohio's higher education conversation, and I welcome it. Not as a provocation, but as an opportunity. Because if we’re going to talk about which Ohio universities represe...

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