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Golden Flashes Women’s Basketball player Bianca Juzzo was playing for New Mexico Junior College when a recruiter suggested she consider a transfer to ������.A native of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Juzzo grew up in a family of basketball players, so the idea of moving to a larger program was appealing. On her first visit, Juzzo enjoyed touring the Kent Campus, meeting the team and even going to a football game and haunted house.“I watched the football team beat Akron and it was amazing,” she said. “It was a bigger school, everything was different, everything was exciting.”But when Ju...

 Freda Robinson is proof that a college degree is worth the journey – at any age and for as long as it takes. Just nine days after celebrating her 60th birthday, Robinson walked across the stage during the commencement ceremony on the Kent State Campus  and received not one, but two, diplomas: the first for an associate degree in applied sciences and the other for a Bachelor of Science degree in Insurance Studies.“As I was waiting to be called to receive my degree and in response to (the dean’s) congratulatory fist bump,” Robinson related, “I said to him: ‘and it only took me 34...

Carol A. Cartwright, Ph.D., became Kent State’s first female president in 1991 and at that time was the first female president of any Ohio public college or university. As Kent State’s 10th president, she made numerous important contributions to the university during her 15-year tenure in Kent and to higher education overall during her remarkable career.With an eye toward innovation and the future, Cartwright was passionate about eliminating barriers for aspiring college students and decreasing gender inequities in programming, athletics and other areas at the university level. Cartwright help...

Ryan Martin, BSE ’19, Burke, Va., Geauga Campus and EHHS grad, will be the new principal at Jefferson Junior High School. Martin earned a bachelor of science in Education from ������ in 2019, and his master of science in Educational Administration from Youngstown State University.--Photo courtesy of Star Beacon...

As director of ������'s Anti-Racism and Equity Institute (AREI), Carla Goar, Ph.D., has several goals for the institute including promoting anti-racist research that introduces ways to interrupt inequities and encourages community engagement.Goar, a professor of sociology, knows that systemic racism is so entrenched, it will be difficult to eliminate it. However, the institute is interested in supporting scholarship that identifies and interrupts structural inequities that negatively impact communities and people of color.The Anti-Racism and Equity Institute ...