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The first priority of С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s strategic roadmap is to ensure that students have the education, experiences and support they need to graduate and to live successful, satisfying lives in their work and in their commitment to become engaged citizens. The university’s Academic Success Center team is making that priority its priority with the creation of the Academic Success Plan (ASP), a new application that gives students easier and quicker access to resources that will help them succeed in class.
While student voting nationwide doubled since 2014, the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ student voting rate has increased 135% from 2014 to 2018, according to a recent report from the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, conducted by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life.
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ celebrated the launch of a dynamic new space, the Design Innovation (DI) Hub, in May that will bring innovations from many disciplines together in a 68,000 square foot building near the center of the Kent Campus.
Even С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s highest-ranking officials can experience a tug on their loyalties when the Golden Flashes take on their alma maters in athletic contests. President Todd Diacon, his wife, Moema Furtado, and head football coach Sean Lewis all will experience that dual loyalty on Saturday when С»ÆƬÊÓƵ faces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
In the spring of 1970, two-time С»ÆƬÊÓƵ alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s inaugural nursing program. While in class on Monday, May 4, a professor rushed into her classroom and warned students who could leave campus to do so. Fifty years later, Gless now reflects on the events surrounding that tragedy and how they have impacted her life and nursing career.
An ecology student testing water in a river. A nursing student assisting a patient. A music student performing onstage. These are just three of the 30 С»ÆƬÊÓƵ students featured in the new С»ÆƬÊÓƵ TV commercial that was developed and produced entirely in-house by С»ÆƬÊÓƵ staff members who are all С»ÆƬÊÓƵ graduates.
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ field hockey coach Kyle DeSandes-Moyer is pleased to announce the signing of 10-year-old Mary Alice Tryda through Team IMPACT to the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ field hockey team.
The pathway from a two-year college to С»ÆƬÊÓƵ will soon become an easier road to travel for Ohio students, thanks to a grant awarded to С»ÆƬÊÓƵ to collaborate with three Ohio community colleges to streamline the transfer process.
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ fight song blared down Main Street, the city of Kent was flooded with blue and gold, alumni and friends gathered and reminisced about their С»ÆƬÊÓƵ days, fans packed the stadium to cheer on their beloved Golden Flashes and the entire campus boomed with С»ÆƬÊÓƵ pride.
С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s nationally ranked Flight Technology program, in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, is one of only three nationwide that Delta Air Lines selected this year to become a Delta Propel Partner, a program that creates career opportunities for students studying to be future commercial pilots.