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Guests of ��ѿappUniversity’s May 4 Visitors Center can learn more about Jeffrey Miller, one of the four students shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, by visiting “Our Brother Jeff,” a new exhibition at the visitors center that honors Miller’s life. The exhibition will be on display from Oct. 19, 2019, to Feb. 29, 2020. Russ Miller, Jeff’s brother, helped create the exhibition by loaning some of Jeff’s personal items to the May 4 Visitors Center. 

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.

The first priority of ��ѿappUniversity’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 ��ѿappUniversity 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.

��ѿappUniversity 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 ��ѿappUniversity’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 ��ѿappfaces the University of Wisconsin-Madison at noon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

In the spring of 1970, two-time ��ѿappUniversity alumna and registered nurse Pat Gless was a junior in Kent State’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 ��ѿappUniversity students featured in the new ��ѿappTV commercial that was developed and produced entirely in-house by ��ѿappstaff members who are all ��ѿappgraduates. 

��ѿappUniversity field hockey coach Kyle DeSandes-Moyer is pleased to announce the signing of 10-year-old Mary Alice Tryda through Team IMPACT to the ��ѿappfield hockey team.

The pathway from a two-year college to ��ѿappUniversity will soon become an easier road to travel for Ohio students, thanks to a grant awarded to ��ѿappto collaborate with three Ohio community colleges to streamline the transfer process.