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Photo of library books

Curbside Pickup is ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity Libraries’ new contactless service that allows users to check out materials from its collection while libraries on the Kent and Regional campuses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Eric Mansfield in Washington, D.C.

Eric Mansfield examines what it means to be an ally in the fight against racism. Mansfield is executive director of university media relations in Kent State's University Communications and Marketing department and an adjunct public relations instructor with the College of Communication and Information.

Jhariah Wadkins is a senior communications studies major at Kent State.

Jhariah Wadkins, a senior communications studies major in ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity's College of Communication and Information, encourages young people to keep this fight against racism going and to not let up.

Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., speaks at Project GRAD Akron’s 13th Annual Achieving Dreams Celebration Gala.

I wonder, how do I decide how to act in recognition of that disturbing dynamic? Michael Kavulic, Ph.D., director of research strategic initiatives in ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity’s Division of Research and Sponsored Programs, shares his inner thoughts as an ally.

Professor teaching in Zoom class in front of tv screens

ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity at Geauga is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation toward a student emergency fund and technology advances. The $20,000 grant will be split evenly between the two initiatives.

HR and DEI departments must offer black employees relevant programs to deal with trauma from racial injustice.

When black Americans watched George Floyd being killed by a white police officer, they saw themselves and their family members. The unrelenting series of events that black Americans have witnessed before and after Floyd’s killing is , which at its core is racism, says ÃÛÑ¿appPsychological Sciences Professor Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.

Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and ÃÛÑ¿appgraduate in the class of '79.

George Floyd's death focused light on what had been America’s ugly secret, the killing of black men by law enforcement officers at a rate far greater than any other race. Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox 8 anchor and ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity alumnus, offers his take on what's at stake for America.

Rami Daud and Nathaniel Bailey, photographers with University Communications and Marketing, smile after receiving their Silver ADDY Awards. (Photo credit: Smithberger Photography)

ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity brought home the gold after this year’s Akron ADDY Awards, with both professionals and students being recognized for their work. The ADDYs, put on by the Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, celebrate the area’s best creative work in advertising.

ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity sign on Front Campus

ÃÛÑ¿app 300 people attended the first in a series of virtual town halls as the ÃÛÑ¿appcommunity addresses systemic racism by learning, listening and taking action as a collective.

Mwatabu S. Okantah

Mwatabu S. Okantah, associate professor in ÃÛÑ¿appUniversity’s Department of Pan-African Studies, shares his perspective as someone who first arrived at ÃÛÑ¿appin September 1970 as a student. Nearly 50 years later, he is an associate professor at the university.