As we close out the final weeks of 2022, I would like to highlight another outstanding year for the College of Education, Health and Human Services (EHHS). 4,234 undergraduate- and graduate-level students started at Kent State this fall, many of whom are pursuing degrees in our college. The Class of 2026 is an academically bright group hailing from 31 countries and 39 U.S. states, including Washington, D.C. Fifty-four percent of the freshman class boasts a GPA of 3.5 or higher and nearly 34 percent are the first in their family to attend college.   It was a stellar semester...

KENT, Ohio – Research conducted by Kent State and Illinois State faculty found that a COVID-19 diagnosis lowered same-semester GPA for students at a state university. C. Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., professor of economics at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, along with co-author Timothy Harris, assistant professor of economics at Illinois State, studied data provided by a large public university to help better understand how a COVID-19 diagnosis affected student success in higher education. While the impacts of the pandemic on higher education have been...