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Stories and Highlights from Across the Regional Campuses
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May 13, 2025
After nearly four decades at Kent State University, Denise A. Seachrist, Ph.D., is retiring from her role as dean and chief administrative officer of Kent State University at Stark and Kent State University at Salem. Her retirement on June 30, 2025, marks the conclusion of a…
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May 8, 2025
This weekend marks a significant milestone for Kent State University’s Regional Campus system as more than 1,700 graduates are honored in commencement ceremonies across Northeast Ohio. On campuses spanning from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, these celebrations highlight the…
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May 6, 2025
Just two years after its launch, Kent State University’s Bachelor of Social Work program is seeing its first cohort of students graduate this semester. Nearly 20 students will walk across stages at the Ashtabula, Salem and Tuscarawas campuses this month, the latest milestone in…
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April 25, 2025
Kent State University at Trumbull utilized an Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) Super RAPIDS grant to add a state-of-the-art lab for its electrical/electronic engineering technology program.
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April 22, 2025
Kent State’s Regional Campuses were well-represented at the Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) annual conference, during which Olivia Rice, a psychology student from Kent State Salem, earned a first-place…
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April 22, 2025
While more than 90% of Ohio’s wetlands have vanished over the past few centuries, a new nature docuseries aims to show there is hope — and a lot of work being done to protect what remains.
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April 18, 2025
As part of Kent State’s 55-Year Commemoration of May 4, 1970, Mahli Mechenbier, a senior lecturer at Kent State University at Geauga's Twinsburg Academic Center will present “Operation: Babylift: A 50-Year Retrospective and Personal History” on May 3 at 1 p.m. with her…
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Feb. 28, 2025
When setting off on a journey, it may be necessary to reverse direction and find another way to reach the destination. That could easily describe the route Nicole Grimm is taking to find her place in the working world.
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Feb. 12, 2025
Kent State University Professor Mary Russell, Ph.D., recalls the very day she realized that her participation in the Belonging Champions program was transforming her and her classroom.