Community Impact
For more than a century, "The Rock" on the Kent Campus has been a colorful canvas expressing the changing moods of the community.
High school students come to Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year with the Tree Campus Higher Education recognition (previously called the Tree Campus USA designation).
A federal grant will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown Kent. Changes to East Main Street will include wider sidewalks, bike and pedestrian paths and crossings, and two roundabouts.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹-sponsored math camp helps to prepare high school students for plentiful STEM jobs in Ohio.
Teachers from northeast Ohio and from thousands of miles away in sub-Saharan Africa have been learning to create inexpensive math teaching tools thanks to the efforts of some Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University professors.
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ canines and their human companions came to the Kent Campus for the Dog Days of Summer.
Hot air balloons and the Budweiser Clydesdales visited Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University at Stark.
Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.
Every summer, the Kent Campus welcomes hundreds of high school students and their parents to discover Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ at Preview KSU.