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Sponsored by the ����ɫ��ҹ Alumni Association, the Alumni Awards are the university’s most prestigious alumni honors. The 2024 Alumni Award recipients include seven alumni, two recent graduates, one staff member and one current student.

Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are encouraged to take the “Our Voices Count” Engagement and Well-Being Survey by the Oct. 20 deadline.

����ɫ��ҹ University has entered into an agreement with the Turkmenistan Ministry of Education to begin exploring the possibility of creating an educational partnership with several national institutes of higher learning there. The effort is part of ����ɫ��ҹ’s ongoing commitment to using education to foster global understanding and peace in a divided world.

The Office of Intercultural Student Life, formerly known as International Student Affairs, has a new central location in the Kent Student Center, which has made it more accessible to international students. Along with the new location comes the mission to provide drop-in services for international students.

The ����ɫ��ҹ University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting on Oct. 2 on the Kent Campus. This special meeting is being called solely for the purpose of enabling trustees to retire into executive session to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”

All around campus - and on the streets of Kent -  there are signs that it's almost time for ����ɫ��ҹ to erupt in a Blue and Gold celebration for Homecoming Weekend. 

����ɫ��ҹ University is set to burst with Golden Flash pride as the annual Homecoming celebration returns Sept. 28. 

A 360-degree theatre-in-the-round classroom whose curved walls glow with projected images from the classroom computer paired with crystal-clear sounds. This is what it’s like to be immersed in the James R. Unger Global Forum, one of the many amazing new spaces in the brand-new Crawford Hall.

U.S. News & World Report has once again confirmed ����ɫ��ҹ University’s academic strengths with the university’s inclusion on several lists in the 2025 Best Colleges rankings. In the newly released rankings, ����ɫ��ҹ continues to be recognized among the Top Public Schools in the nation.

Brian VanDeMark, a historian with the United States Naval Academy, has written a new book “����ɫ��ҹ: An American Tragedy.” He will participate in a panel discussion at ����ɫ��ҹ on Sept. 27.