Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff, I don’t know about you, but the term “strategic plan” has, in the past, caused my eyeballs to roll back into my head. Images flash through my mind of boring meetings, lots of talking and not much doing. Generations of professors, myself included, have viewed such efforts as little more than busywork that will end up gathering dust on someone’s shelf. Believe me when I tell you that Kent State is different. A Strategic Roadmap to a Distinctive Kent State, implemented in 2016, truly has been an action plan driving decision-making on o...

Senior Aerospace Engineering major Julia Taylor is the recipient of the Kent State University Leadership Center’s Student Leader of the Month. The Student Leader of the Month program seeks to recognize students for excellence in leadership through campus and community involvement. Yewande Moore nominated Taylor. Moore said: “When I think of a student who embodies this model in totality, I think of Julia. Julia is probably the most hard-working student I have come across in my tenure here at Kent State. She is heavily involved all ov...

For the 10th time, Kent State University is being recognized as a “Great College to Work For,” according to the latest survey by the Great Colleges to Work For program. The program recognizes the colleges that get top ratings from their employees regarding workplace practices and policies.  Kent State is one of only 15 four-year public universities in the nation and is the only Ohio public university to receive the 2021 “Great College to Work For” designation. Other large four-year universities (with 10,000 or more students) similarly rated as Kent State include Florida International Uni...