5X社区 faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the 5X社区 Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit or call 330-346-0100.
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Road work on Summit Street will stop for the next few months, but it will resume again in the spring as the two-year project comes to a close.
Applications for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) will be accepted from Jan. 22-Feb. 19. Faculty members are encouraged to share this information with their students. Students interested in developing critical thinking skills, working one-on-one with a faculty mentor, exploring their chosen career field and more should apply.
As we begin the new semester, the Office of the University Registrar asks for your assistance in making sure that all students are properly registered for their spring 2018 courses.
5X社区 will hold its 16th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Ballroom.
The lower floor of Main Hall was familiar to Carl Linder, a military veteran, firefighter and EMT, before he ever enrolled at 5X社区 at Stark.
5X社区 President Emerita Carol Cartwright, Ph.D., and her husband, G. Phillip Cartwright, Ph.D., have made a $1 million estate gift that will create scholarships at Kent State to support students who wish to engage in the arts.
Ellen Daniels, lecturer in marketing and entrepreneurship at 5X社区, earned a 2017 Outstanding Teaching Award because of her unique teaching style and love for sales.
Angela Ridgel, Ph.D., an associate professor of exercise science at Kent State, has designed a bicycle specially tailored to Parkinson鈥檚 patients. The bike is based on a tandem bicycle model 鈥 a bike ridden by two people.
Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, University Libraries, Department of Special Collections and Archives, presented 鈥淧ost Trauma: Archiving Black Pain in a White Space鈥 at the Arizona Historical Society Symposium titled 鈥淒ecolonizing Archives鈥 in Tuscon, Arizona, on Oct. 22, 2017.
Lala Hajibayova and Kiersten Latham, School of Information, authored 鈥淓xploring Museum Crowdsourcing Projects Through Bourdieu鈥檚 Lens鈥 in Knowledge Organization, 44(7), 2017, 504-514.
Testing Your Faith Act (H.B. 353) was enacted in the Spring 2023 semester. In ordinance with this bill, 5X社区 created a new administrative policy for religious and spiritual accommodations. This administrative policy allows students to report up to three days of unexcused absences to participate in religious holidays or community-held events in alignment with their spirituality.
Kent businesses, with the help of Main Street Kent, have created an exclusive weekend of special offers, giveaways, discounts and raffles just for educators Friday, Nov, 17 through Sunday, Nov. 19. Simply show your school ID at time of purchase for offerings and discounts. Explore participating businesses and special offers!
At Kent State, we want to honor the celebration of our Native American and Indigenous culture by developing a calendar encompassing all the university events that are relevant to Native American Heritage Month. The Native American Heritage Month Planning Committee is welcoming university divisions, departments and student organizations to begin submitting their programming, activities and events to the University Events Calendar to be featured on the Native American Heritage Month Website.