Dear Kent State University Students, Faculty and Staff,   As this semester progresses, the health and well-being of our university community continue to drive the decisions we make about safety practices on our campuses.  As the delta variant accelerates its spread throughout Northeast Ohio, exponentially increasing the number of new cases of COVID-19, we are moving to amend our Aug. 4 directive requiring face coverings for everyone in indoor settings on all Kent State campuses. Today, we are expanding that requirement to recreation centers on all campuses as well as all i...

Join the Growing Democracy Project for the first event of the new Race and Democracy in Northeast Ohio Series!  A program on "Race, Place and Political Boundaries" will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2022, from 2 - 6 pm in Oscar Ritchie Hall, room 250.  The event will also be live-streamed for those who are unable to attend in person.The Race and Democracy in Northeast Ohio Series is a collaboration with the School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS) and the Center for Pan-African Culture (CPAC).The program will explore the relationship between race and place, focusing on the sig...

The Kent State University Board of Trustees recently welcomed four new trustees to serve the university including Haley Crews, a graduate student in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Sociology. She was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to a two-year term as the graduate student trustee.   Crews is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in sociology at Kent State and her research interests include social psychology, neurosociology, and higher education. She earned her B.S. in Neuroscience and Sociology from the University of Mount Union. To learn more about Haley’s research,...