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Governor appoints two members to Board of Trustees

Emily Mills August 6, 2014

Gov. John Kasich appointed two new members to Kent State’s Board of Trustees, the governing body of the university.Stephen A. Perry, former president and executive director of the Pro Football Hall of...

Kent State Board Trustee Dennis Eckart

Board of Trustees approves 2 percent tuition increase

Kent State University student tuition will increase 2 percent effective for the 2014-2015 academic year, a change the Kent State Board of Trustees approved at its meeting Wednesday.Undergraduate tuition...

KSU Trustees Chair: ‘No laws have been broken’

May 19, 2014

Letter to the EditorThe success of Kent State University’s recent presidential search is already being felt across the region as Dr. Beverly J. Warren prepares to assume her new role in July, yet stories...

Lester Lefton listens as Beverly Warren speaks to those in attendance as she is announced as Kent State University's twelfth president January 9, 2014.

Presidential personality

Jimmy Miller April 22, 2014

When Matthew Lilley woke up and checked his email on the morning of Jan. 25, 2012, he, as he remembers two years later, “felt my jaw drop.”“I was at a loss for words, really,” Lilley said in a...

Kent State president-elect Bevely Warren holds up a Kent State pullover she received from the board of trustees, after she was announced as the university's 12th president, Jan. 8, 2014.

Presidential search committee’s privacy called into question

Jimmy Miller April 8, 2014

Details about Kent State’s presidential search — the identities of the finalists interviewed for the presidential position and methods of funding the search have remained unanswered as the university...

Outgoing president Lester Lefton listens at the Board of Trustees meeting, Jan. 9, 2014, that announced Beverly Warren as Kent's president-elect, to take effect in July.

Reception to honor Lefton set for Friday

Elizabeth Randolph March 31, 2014

A reception will be held this Friday to honor retiring President Lester Lefton, who announced last year that he will retire this July.The Board of Trustees is hosting the event, which will be held in the...

Guest columnist: 10 things KSU students need to know about the Board of Trustees

Jody Michael March 16, 2014

1. Your room and board rates are going up more than 3.8 percent next year. The Board of Trustees decided that on Wednesday.2. While students are paying hundreds more, President Lester Lefton is receiving...

Board approves Lefton’s $100K bonus, more than $33 million in building plans

The Kent State Board of Trustees awarded President Lester Lefton a $106,538 bonus and approved the construction for two new buildings on campus at its meeting Wednesday morning.The board approved the construction...

Chair of Faculty Senate Paul Farrell speaks at a faculty senate meeting held in the Governance Chambers, Oct. 7, 2013.

Faculty ‘frustrated,’ ‘insulted’ with presidential search involvement

Jimmy Miller February 9, 2014

Just before the Board of Trustees announced Beverly Warren as the next president of Kent State Jan. 8, a select few Faculty Senate members were interviewing her on the second floor of Rockwell Hall.“We...

Bahareh Gharehgozlou, president of the Kent State International Mentors (right), says she wishes she would have been informed beforehand about the Board of Trustees' decision to raise the International activity fee, which jumped from $10 to $20 this year. Bahareh is a PhD student translation major at Kent State. 

International student activity fee doubled without warning, students say

Madeline Winer January 14, 2014

When Kent State’s Board of Trustees doubled the international student activity fee for this academic year, many international students were unaware they were funding an additional $36,000 to International...

Kent State faculty and students give a round of applause for university president-elect Beverly Warren at a meet-and-greet held in the Schwebel Room at the Student Center on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Warren's presidency will take effect in July, replacing outgoing President Lester Lefton.

Warren embraces Kent State community

Madeleine Winer January 13, 2014

Warm, engaging, open and welcoming — all words the university community used to describe Beverly Warren, Kent State’s next president set to take over in July, following her announcement at a special...

VCU provost named next KSU president

Madeleine Winer January 8, 2014

Editor's note: This story was updated from a previous version.Beverly J. Warren was named Kent State’s 12th president at a special Board of Trustees meeting in the atrium of Rockwell Hall on Wednesday.The...