May 4 Visitors Center
A Year with a Flash Kent State Today will be following a group of Golden Flashes for the 2023-24 academic year chronicling their efforts and successes during the fall and spring semesters. The group includes students, faculty and administrators who are at different places on their Kent State journeys. Alison Capla...
A Year with a Flash Kent State Today will be following a group of Golden Flashes for the 2023-24 academic year chronicling their efforts and successes during the fall and spring semesters. The group includes students, faculty and administrators who are at different places on their Kent State journeys. Alison Caplan grew u...
This recently discovered photo of Jeffrey Miller is part of "Snapshots in Time: The Lives of Four Students" exhibition on display at the Kent State University May 4 Visitors Center. Miller was one of the four students killed on May 4, 1970, on the Kent Campus. He is the fallen student who Mary Ann Vecchio is kneeling nea...
After a national search, Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center, a museum that tells the story of the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, set in the context of the 1960s. Caplan currently serves as director of education at the National First Ladies’ Library in Canton, Ohio. ...
On May 15, a group of educators from Brazil arrived on the Kent Campus of Kent State University to begin a two-week program, designed to help them explore models of education in Northeast Ohio and determine how they might implement them in their schools and throughout Brazil’s network of educational institutions. The program, called the...
Tears, hugs, happy reunions and solemn remembrance marked the 53rd Commemoration of May 4, 1970. Donald Scott Mackenzie (center), one of the nine students wounded in the tragedy, walks with Kent State University President Todd Diacon (right) and Amy Reynolds, dean of Kent State's College of Communication and Information (CCI). Mac...
A prayer was read in Hebrew at the B'nai B'rith Hillel Marker on the May 4 memorial site as part of the annual candlelight walk and vigil on May 3. The silent walk around campus begins each year at at 11 p.m. and takes about 60 minutes. Afterward, at midnight, the vigil begins as one person with a candle stands in the each of the four...
The May 4 Visitors Center (M4VC) is observing its 10th anniversary this spring. Following a “soft” opening in fall 2012, the center was officially dedicated as part of the May 4 Commemoration in 2013. The center was created through the efforts and passion of Laura Davis, Professor Emerita of English, and Carole Barbato, professor of com...
In 2017, Kent State alumna Taylor Pierce, BS '18, had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interview iconic singer/songwriter David Crosby, who performed the protest song “Ohio” as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Crosby, who died this week at the age of 81, visited Kent State in 2017 and toured the ...
During the 51st May 4 Commemoration, Kent State unveiled new bronze markers to honor the nine students who were wounded by gunfire on May 4, 1970, and to designate their location on the site during the tragic incident. The markers, which are 11 inches in diameter and recessed in limestone bases, identify the locations where the nin...