Community Impact
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).
A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.
Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some С»ÆƬÊÓƵ professors.
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited С»ÆƬÊÓƵ at Stark.
Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with С»ÆƬÊÓƵ's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.
Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover С»ÆƬÊÓƵ at Preview KSU.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, few disciplines have seen as many changes as psychology. In order to help students address these emerging challenges, С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s Department of Psychological Sciences is offering a slate of courses relevant to the changing trends impacting mental health today.
Time in nature, the spirit of competition and bonding are just a few of the many benefits of a golf outing. For the past 25 years, the Glenn Davis Golf League has played a vital role in building a deeper sense of community for С»ÆƬÊÓƵ, on and off the green.