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�������� is one of 61 organizations nationwide – and one of four organizations in Ohio – to be awarded a 2021-2022 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read grant. The university’s $20,000 grant will support the Big Read Northeast Ohio, a community reading program and related events focusing on “An American Sunrise” by Poet Laureate Joy Harjo from October 2021 through May 2022.

Deborah F. Spake, Ph.D., dean of ��������’s College of Business Administration, has been named a 2021 recipient of the American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group (Higher Ed SIG) Lifetime Achievement Award.

The philosophy of Fraternity and Sorority Life at �������� is that each strives to be the best community in the country by encompassing a nurturing and inclusive environment for everyone to call home. You can add doing great things for the community to the list.

Grace Irvin-Dillard of Bedford, Ohio, who graduated from �������� in May 2021 with a degree in entrepreneurship, has already built a successful business from the ground up while still a student.

Born five decades ago as the Kent Gay Liberation Front at ��������, PRIDE! Kent is the country’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ student organizations. This campus organization owes its existence in large part to the boldness and courage of one person, Dolores Noll, Ph.D.

New bronze markers identify the locations where nine students were wounded when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on May 4, 1970, during an anti-war demonstration.

The �������� Board of Trustees approved an addition to the Aeronautics and Engineering Building, home of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering that opened in spring 2015, during the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held Wednesday, June 23.

Update: The Global Vaccine Poem project is finding success with more than 1,900 submissions so far from more than 100 countries. The project is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. 

�������� President Todd Diacon announced a massive, first-of-its-kind new student aid program that focuses on getting even more �������� Golden Flashes to graduation, and beyond.

Juneteenth Jubilee will include vendors, a live DJ, dancing and mingling with those in the Kent community.

Guacamole and chips are frequently on the menu of social gatherings for many �������� students, staff and faculty. However, President Todd Diacon says that the delicious creamy dip also holds a life lesson about expanding our worldview.

�������� alumna Jeannette Reyes, ’12, uses TikTok for fun outside of her television anchor responsibilities at FOX 5 Washington, D.C. Last October, Reyes posted a video with her husband using their “anchor talk” voices to decide on choices for dinner. She never expected her video to gain so much momentum.

While most 18-year-olds are finishing up their high school requirements for graduation and making plans to attend college or applying for jobs, a few exceptional students like Benjamin Mudrak are simply way ahead of their peers in their academic pursuits.

While all eyes were on the stage to meet the NFL stars of the future, scores of current and former �������� students were nearby during the league’s recent draft, which was held in Cleveland on April 29-May 1, 2021.