(Faculty and staff, please encourage your students to participate in this student-only contest.) Kent State University is channeling its inner Willy Wonka with the university's latest incentive drawing for students who register their COVID-19 vaccine. About the Golden Tickets We’re giving away five Golden Tickets that allow you to park for free during the 2022 Spring Semester in nearly all Kent Campus parking lots. Imagine being able to park in almost any lot you want for as long as you want without fear of getting a parking ticket.  The drawing is open to all students on any ...

James O’Neil is a 2021 Kent State Geauga graduate with a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing (BSN). As a non-traditional student, he was a bit older than many of his classmates, juggling the responsibilities of adult life while going back to school. Despite all of these additional obligations, O’Neil excelled academically. Rather than patting himself on the back, he credits his Kent State Geauga instructors for propelling him to greater heights. Among his accolades, O’Neil was elected to represent the Geauga Campus in a health care policy debate in 2019, he served as a nursing tutor,...

Kent State University’s Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Lamar R. Hylton, Ph.D., has had a pretty good year in one month. Hylton has been named the recipient of the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-East Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Senior Student Affairs Officer for 2021, named to Crain’s Cleveland Business Forty Under 40, selected as a recipient of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Diamond Honoree award and is a member of the 2022 class of the NASPA Pillars of the Profession award. According to NASPA.or...

The Rubber City Theatre in Akron, Ohio, will host the play “Love in Reserve” by career storyteller, U.S. Army veteran, award-winning journalist and playwright Eric Mansfield. At Kent State University, many know Mansfield from his role as assistant vice president for content strategy and communications in the Division of University Communications and Marketing. The show is set to run from Nov. 5-20, 2021. This love story centers around Army wife Kate Strong, who is counting down the final days for her husband Ray’s return home from the Iraq War when she views a news report of a deadl...

Part of the recent homecoming festivities on the Salem Campus included a time to observe the 10th anniversary of the opening of the James and Coralie Centofanti Hall. Several faculty and staff members, students, alumni, community members gathered to reflect on how the James and Coralie Centofanti Hall has changed lives over the last 10 years. Special guest Joe Centofanti, son of the late James and Coralie Centofanti, shared how his father came to the United States from Italy and, through hard work and wise planning, built a successful business in the area. The business created jobs, built st...

Story published in Gazette News (10/22/2021) ASHTABULA - A Kent State University at Ashtabula student recently was able to earn her required internship hours through the Ashtabula County Educational Service Center OT/PT Department.  Briana Ellwood was the most recent Kent State University at Ashtabula occupational therapy assistant student to intern at the ACESC.  “At the Ashtabula County Educational Service Center, we have had a long standing relationship with Kent State Ashtabula and the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program,” said Krysten Nichols, MS, OTR/L, supervising occupa...