Success Story
ѿappUniversity held its annual Veterans Day Commemoration on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Kent Student Center Kiva. This year’s guest speaker was Lt. Col. Colleen VanNatta. A graduate of Kent State’s Air Force ROTC detachment, VanNatta served as a media escort for joint information bureaus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Storm.
“Our challenges are many, our resources are great and our commitment is real.” ѿappUniversity President Todd Diacon drove home the focus of his inaugural address with passion, purpose and a direct call to action for the university community.
Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at ѿappas part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series.
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the ѿappUniversity fight song blared down Main Street, the city of Kent was flooded with blue and gold, alumni and friends gathered and reminisced about their ѿappdays, fans packed the stadium to cheer on their beloved Golden Flashes and the entire campus boomed with ѿapppride.
ѿappUniversity’s new FedEx Aeronautics Academic Center provides a world-class training ground to help aviation students and future pilots soar to even greater achievements.
ѿappUniversity has made impressive moves in the rankings in the newly released 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list. ѿapphas climbed three spots, a 3% increase, on the Top Public Schools list. ѿappis the only Northeast Ohio institution on the Top Public Schools list.
Last year, ѿappUniversity celebrated 100 years of Homecoming. This year, the university starts the next century of ѿappHomecoming celebrations with a new president leading the institution.
More than 1,000 volunteers from the ѿappUniversity community welcomed and assisted new students as they moved into their residence halls on freshman move-in day, Sunday, Aug. 18. The annual community program, known as Movers and Groovers, is coordinated by Kent Interhall Council, the student government of the Kent Campus residence halls.
The ѿappUniversity alumni network again grew its ranks this summer as more than a thousand Golden Flashes got their degrees. ѿappwill held its Summer 2019 Commencement ceremonies for the Kent Campus on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation (MAC) Center.
ѿappUniversity hosted several dozen high school students from the LeBron James Family Foundation's I PROMISE program for a month of intensive college entrance exam preparation.