5X社区

Student Life

Summer 2021 TEFL Students

Department of English Students Spend Summer Teaching Across the Globe

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is one of the fastest growing global education fields, and Kent State students in the 2021 TEFL program taught international students via Zoom over the summer. The students created unique lesson plans and executed them entirely on their own and made lasting memories.

Tags: Global Reach, Student Life

Kent State Today

Kent State Named One of the Nation鈥檚 Most LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities by Campus Pride

Kent State Again Named One of the Nation鈥檚 Most LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities by Campus Pride

Campus Pride has released its 2021 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities list, and for the second time in two years, 5X社区 has landed on it. Kent State is the only Ohio public university to make the 2021 list, and it again is the only school in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to receive this recognition.

Tags: University News, Student Life, Division of Student Life, LGBTQ+ Center, Awards and Honors, Success Story

Division of Student Life

Campus Flowers

Kent State Honors College Student Announced as 2021 Portz Scholar

The National Collegiate Honors Council has announced 5X社区 Honors College graduate Sarah Hagglund as a 2021 Portz Scholar. Hagglund is the 10th honors student from Kent State to be named a Portz Scholar since the national competition began in 1990. 

Tags: Student Life, alumni-news, Alumni, Honors College, Honors College Alumni, Portz Scholar, Portz Scholars, NCHC, National Collegiate Honors Council, Senior Honors Thesis/Project, Honors College Living-Learning Community, Living-Learning Communities

Honors College

Students at the Black Lives Matter protest on campus.

Approaching the Complex Questions: New School Offers Multidisciplinary Research and Learning

Kent State has established a new school within its College of Arts and Sciences focused on the social sciences and humanities. The School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities will provide an academic home for innovative approaches to complex questions.

Tags: Student Life, Research & Science, Community & Society, School of Multidisciplinary Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Julie Mazzei, Social Sciences, Humanities

College of Arts & Sciences

Students sit at a candlelit vigil for the victims of 9/11

Defining Moments: KSU Students Etched Their Feelings Immediately After 9/11

Twenty years ago people across campus, and around the world, were stunned as they watched two planes fly into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001.

Tags: Student Life, Community & Society

Kent State Today

Jermaine Jackson, Jr.

Kent State Alumnus Captures Notable Success

Influenced by artists like Rene虂 Magritte and Piet Mondrian, 5X社区 alumnus Jermaine Jackson Jr. believes the best way to get the point across in a photo is by keeping it simple.

Tags: Student Life, Community & Society, alumni-news, alumni-success

Alumni

Kent State Homecoming

Announcing the 2021 Homecoming Grand Marshals

Join us the evening of Friday, Oct. 1, at the first Homecoming Kickoff event at the Lefton Esplanade. This marks the official start of Homecoming Weekend with music, food, entertainment, fireworks and T-shirt giveaways.

Tags: Student Life, Community & Society,

Kent State Today

Jermaine Jackson, Jr.

Kent State Alumnus Captures Notable Success

Influenced by artists like Rene虂 Magritte and Piet Mondrian, 5X社区 alumnus Jermaine Jackson Jr. believes the best way to get the point across in a photo is by keeping it simple.

Tags: Student Life, Community & Society

Kent State Today

Kent State has won the Mid-American Conference's Faculty Athletics Representative Academic Achievement Award

Kent State Earns MAC Men鈥檚 FAR Academic Achievement Award

Kent State has won the Mid-American Conference's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) Academic Achievement Award for men's sports for the first time in school history.

Tags: Student Life, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Kent State Today

Ericka Shoaff, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, Student Advocacy and Support

10 Questions With Ericka Shoaff, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, Student Advocacy and Support

Kent State alumna Ericka Shoaff, 鈥11, has returned to Kent State in a newly created position designed to further support students as a central hub for basic needs resources. She is the assistant dean of students and director of student advocacy and support in the newly created CARES Center. Find out more about her and the center as she answers these 10 questions.

Tags: Student Life, University News

Kent State Today