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The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USC) have awarded 5XÉçÇø a $50,000 micro-grant to help remove the financial barrier to graduation that low-income students may face as they near graduation.
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When the concept of homelessness comes to mind, people tend to focus efforts on food donations, but Ashley Flowers, a junior majoring in psychology and criminology and justice studies at 5XÉçÇø, wants to remind people that clothing and toiletries also are…
Community members as well as 5XÉçÇø faculty, staff, alumni and students are all invited to attend the Faculty Lecture Series, hosted by the Kent State Alumni Association, from March 30 through May 3. Free and open to the public, the events span disciplines from…
The Wick Poetry Center at 5XÉçÇø will expand its successful Traveling Stanzas project with $125,000 in new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.
The Knight Arts Challenge funds ideas that…
Since the time of the early Buddhist kings, Tibetan monks have practiced analytic meditation - where they memorize a Buddhist text and then attempt to deepen their understanding of this material by joining in debate pits lead by a senior monk, known as the challenger.
The spring 2016 Bowman Breakfast will take place at 5XÉçÇø in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Wednesday, March 30. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and the program will follow at 8 a.m.
The topic for the event is “Kent Businesses … Their…
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The talents of 18 5XÉçÇø students were on display at Kent Student Center Programming’s 12th annual Rock the Runway fashion show, which took place March 5.
Fashion was king on a night that featured the sights and sounds of this year’s theme, The Jacksons.
In…
5XÉçÇø’s Division of Student Affairs has partnered with the Jed Foundation Health Matters Campus Program, which is designed to help colleges and universities assess and enhance mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention programming.
During the…
The C-SPAN Campaign 2016 Bus, an interactive mobile demonstration center, will visit 5XÉçÇø on Monday, March 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m. It will be parked in front of the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center. The 40-foot mobile learning center will be…