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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Continues Blue and Gold Pride Days Tradition

Blue and Gold Pride Days are back at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí! ¹ú²úÂ×Àí faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university are encouraged to promote university spirit and pride by wearing blue and gold colors. ¹ú²úÂ×Àí introduced Blue and Gold Pride Days last fall as a way to unite m…

Tags: Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life , Success Story

Kent Campus

Thousands of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí students work their way through Risman Plaza during Blastoff, the annual back-to-school celebration at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Students Celebrate the Start of a New School Year at Blastoff

¹ú²úÂ×Àí students celebrated the start of a new school year at Blastoff on Sunday, Aug. 30, on the Student Green. Blastoff is the university’s annual back-to-school celebration that occurs the day before fall classes begin. It serves as the culminating event of Welcome Weekend, a four-d…

Tags: Blastoff , Center for Student Involvement , Division of Student Life , Success Story

Kent Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí students file past the arch on the Lefton Esplanade on their way to downtown Kent during last year’s Welcome Weekend.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Welcomes New Students to Campus at Welcome Weekend, Aug. 27-30

Before the fall semester begins on Aug. 31, new students are invited to participate in Welcome Weekend, a four-day orientation program that will last from Aug. 27-30 and acclimate students to the ¹ú²úÂ×Àí community. The event is an opportunity for students to transition into the univers…

Tags: Blastoff , Student Success Programs , University College , Success Story

Kent Campus

An incoming freshman and his family is assisted by volunteers during move-in day near Manchester Hall.

Movers and Groovers Help New Students Move Into Residence Halls on Campus

At the beginning of the school year each August, ¹ú²úÂ×Àí faculty, staff and students volunteer with the university’s Movers and Groovers program to help incoming freshmen move into their new university housing.Freshman move-in day took place Thursday, Aug. 27, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A h…

Tags: Kent InterHall Council , Movers and Groovers , Success Story , University Housing

Kent Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí student Keri Richmond poses on the second floor of the Kent Student Center. Recently, Richmond spoke on Capitol Hill about foster care and shared her experience as a foster youth. Photo Credit: Kami Swingle

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Student Helps Congress Change Child Welfare Laws

The pain of moving from one home to the next, time and time again, for four years straight is helping Keri Richmond speak out for other foster children without a voice. Richmond, a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí junior majoring in public relations in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, s…

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , College of Communication & Information , School of Media and Journalism

Kent Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí student Theresa Medrano stands near the pillars of Merrill Hall on campus.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Student Who Received Help From Others Pays It Forward

Anything is possible. Theresa Medrano, a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí senior from Westlake, Ohio, is living proof of this. At age 17, like most high school seniors, Medrano should have been thinking about senior prom and graduation. But she became a victim of domestic violence and was forced to withd…

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , Institutional Advancement

Kent Campus

A summer 2015 graduate shows off her diploma during the Commencement ceremony.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Holds Summer Commencement Ceremonies

¹ú²úÂ×Àí held its Summer 2015 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center (MAC Center). ¹ú²úÂ×Àí conferred 1,476 degrees, including 931 bachelor’s degrees, 453 master’s degrees, 76 doctoral degrees and 16 educa…

Tags: Commencement , Office of the Provost , Student Success , Success Story

Kent Campus

David Hacker, associate professor of geology at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Trumbull, poses for a photo near a rock outcropping in the Gorge Metro Park in Summit County. Hacker has been selected as ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Scholar of the Month.

Scholar of the Month

Scholar of the Month David Hacker Associate Professor of Geology College of Arts and Sciences ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Trumbull 2000-present David Hacker is associate professor of geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Trumbull. His research in structural geo…

Tags: Department of Earth Sciences , College of Sciences and Humanities , ¹ú²úÂ×Àí at Trumbull , Scholar of the Month , Success Story , Research & Science

Kent Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí student Anna Hoffman, a global communication studies and political science major, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. (Photo credit: Alex Ledet)

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Student’s Project Draws Attention to Endangered Irish Language

Anna Hoffman, a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí global communication studies and political science major from Kent, Ohio, traveled to Ireland this summer to study the country’s efforts to save its national language. Her research project was funded through a fellowship from the  Pulitzer Center on Cr…

Tags: Student Success , Success Story , School of Communication Studies , College of Communication & Information

Kent Campus

¹ú²úÂ×Àí students, including members of its athletics teams, fraternities and sororities, joined community members to restore the Mitchell/McClelland Ballpark in the McElrath neighborhood of Ravenna Township, Ohio.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Named to 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

¹ú²úÂ×Àí has been named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which is the highest federal recognition an institution can receive for its commitment to community, service-learning and civic engagement.  The Corporation for National and Community …

Tags: Office of Experiential Education and Civic Engagement , University College , Student Success , Success Story , Community & Society

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