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Former Kent State golf coach Herb Page enjoys retirement while recalling some of his fondest memories at the university. Page, who served 41 years as coach and 47 with the golf program, told the Akron Beacon Journal about his decision to return to Ohio - despite warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic - to support his staff at Windmill Lakes, a golf course he co-owns. According to the Beacon Journal, when Page retired, “Kent State had captured 23 Mid-American Conference titles since 1984 and he’d been named the league’s coach of the year 23 times. His teams went to 28 NCAA regionals, winnin...

A basic tool kit includes things such as hammers, screwdrivers, nails and more. The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit offers so much more, and Kent State's Center for Adults and Veterans Services (CAVS) took full advantage of it to help adult and parenting students.   The Family Friendly Campus Toolkit, created by Endicott College, is a free-to-use tool for universities that assists and informs schools of ways to strategically support parenting students at their individual institutions. As of 2018, ������ was one of the first schools to implement this plan on its campus. &n...

Always working to stay ahead of the curve in the marketplace, administrators at ������ Geauga and the Twinsburg Academic Center offer students pathways to gain professional skills and certifications that are in demand. Considering the urgent need for respiratory therapists in the healthcare industry, an Associate of Applied Science degree in Respiratory Therapy Technology program is now being offered at the Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Academic Center. “This is an amazing program,” says Megan Krippel, Director of Enrollment Management and Student Support Services. “By putting ...

������ at Ashtabula College Credit Plus (CCP) student Elizabeth Budy will be among those recognized by the Northeastern Ohio section of the American Chemistry Society (NEOACS) at its annual Young Scientist Awards on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Budy, a junior at Jefferson Area High School, was nominated by Associate Professor of Chemistry Ann Abraham, Ph.D. in the College Chemistry Student Volunteer of the Year category.  “From the first week of fall semester, Liz has expressed interest in becoming a chemist,” Abraham said. “She began working with me every week, testing act...

������ alumni who served as editor of the Daily Kent Stater each faced the challenge of covering the anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students and wounded nine others during a Vietnam War protest. Several former editors of the campus student newspaper, now known as the Kent Stater, shared their thoughts on how the anniversary was perceived and how coverage changed over the course of five decades. “We felt compelled to put ourselves back in the 1970 Spring Quarter time frame, but also to reflect where our campus culture and pulse wer...

������ at Ashtabula Human Services Technology Associate Lecturer Joan Steidl has produced a program to air as part of the 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 on WKSU 89.7 FM, ������’s award-winning NPR public news radio station. “The Power of So Many Flowers” first aired Wednesday, April 29, during Morning Edition and All Things Considered. It is one of five programs in the “Fragments of May 4th: Artifacts, Mementos, and Meaning” series. Steidl put together the audio production of the piece. Graduate journalism student Lyndsey Brennan wrote the story whic...

������ student Sean Fitzgerald shares what it’s like being a resident assistant (RA), co-hosting a sports radio show and living on the autism spectrum. Sean Fitzgerald traces the beginning of his love of sports and talking about sports to car rides with his father in his hometown of Strongsville, Ohio. Together, they talked sports while listening to Northeast Ohio sports personality Kenny Roda on the radio. Fast forward a decade or so and now, in his junior year, Fitzgerald is beginning his fifth semester co-hosting his own popular sports radio program on Kent State...