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Kent State’s Center for Architecture and Environmental Design was named "Best in Class” for incorporating clay brick in its design.

Kent State’s Center for Architecture and Environmental Design Receives Brick in Architecture “Best in Class” Award

The 2017 Brick in Architecture Awards named ’s Center for Architecture and Environmental Design as “Best in Class” for the Educational (Higher Education) category.

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Kent State’s Center for Architecture and Environmental Design Receives Brick in Architecture “Best in Class” Award

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Kent State Earns Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for Fifth Consecutive Year

’s commitment to maintaining a diverse and inclusive campus has received acknowledgement from INSIGHT Into Diversity, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, for a fifth consecutive year.

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Kent State Earns Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for Fifth Consecutive Year

 students make their way to the Integrated Sciences Building on the Kent Campus.

Video: Kent State Unveils New Integrated Sciences Building

The community gathered to celebrate the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art Integrated Sciences Building on Sept. 15.

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Video: Kent State Unveils New Integrated Sciences Building

's newly renovated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center will hold its grand reopening celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Kent State to Celebrate New Space for LGBTQ Student Center

will celebrate its newly renovated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

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Kent State to Celebrate New Space for LGBTQ Student Center

A Look Back

Have a question about something or someone you remember from your time at Kent State? Here’s some help to find an answer. A five-year process to digitize every printed issue of The Daily Kent Stater (now The Kent Stater) concluded this summer. Ninety years of issues, spanning 1926–2016, are now sear…

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Golden Year

In its 50th year, Kent State’s College of Nursing has been designated a Center of Excellence for 2017–2022 by the National League for Nursing, in the category of “Advance the Science of Nursing Education”—the same category it received when first designated in 2013. It will be recognized at the 2017 …

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One University Commencement

Dix Stadium was the place to be at 10 a.m. on May 13, 2017, as graduates from all campuses gathered for Kent State’s first One University Commencement Ceremony, and their friends and families joined together to celebrate their achievements.  “This approach enables us to honor all graduates f…

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Live and Learn

This fall marks the beginning of the second year of ’s living-learning community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) students and their allies in the recently renovated Korb Hall.  While Residence Services has offered gender-inclusive housin…

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Learning to Connect

To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to Kent State read the same book, write an essay in response to reading prompts and then talk about it in discussion groups when they get to campus.  This year’s Common Reading book, selected by the C…

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Presidential Perspectives

On With Purpose At Kent State, those three words above represent how much we value a life of purpose—that sense of calling that can open our minds, uncover new paths and transform the world around us.  Finding purpose, however, is an intensely personal journey. When I was an undergraduate, be…

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