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From the time she was in seventh grade, Kent State School of Fashion alumni Siera Santos Terry knew she wanted to attend Kent State.  With an entrepreneurial mindset from the time she was eleven where she sold her brand "Things by CiCi" at craft fairs, attending the Kent State Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S.) program during her college years was almost inevitable. Combining the craft of fashion and entrepreneurship, Kent State's M.F.I.S. program elevated Terry's natural talent for selling products and running her own businesses. Throughout her time earning her Bache...

Kent State Today is following a group of Golden Flashes for the 2025-26 academic year, chronicling their efforts and successes during the fall and spring semesters. The students are at various stages of their academic careers and will share their experiences as they participate in Kent State's distinctive programs, research and campus activities.Just one more year at ������ and 19-year-old twin brothers Ray and Will Maynard of Green, Ohio, expect to be graduating and, hopefully, off to medical school.The pair, biological sciences majors in the College of Arts and Scien...

When Ray Strumbly started to envision his retirement and the future of the business he spent decades cultivating, the idea of selling to private equity didn’t sit well with him.“In my long history, I've yet to meet a private equity organization that made a company better. Usually, it has to do with reducing headcount and creating efficiencies, and then the company turns over repeatedly, and unfortunately, that's not good for your customer base,” he said.Strumbly joined Timbers-Kovar Company, a Mentor, Ohio-based distributor of loading dock equipment and doors, in 1997, working his wa...

The ������ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20, in the Cene Lecture Hall, Room 120, in The John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design on the Kent Campus. The Board will consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur at 8 a.m. in public in the Cene Lecture Hall, Room 120.A limited number of sea...