Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, I write to you amid advancing legislation in Columbus, an expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the potential for more developments in these early months of the 2024 election cycle that will have impacts on our university. I have spent a considerable amount of time speaking on our behalf in meetings with the author of Ohio Senate Bill 83 at the Statehouse, with Gov. Mike DeWine, with Ohio’s higher education chancellor and with presidential colleagues from across the Ohio public universities. I have worked to make clear how our univ...