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Career conversations session teaches students about a career in psychology

Aidan Coyne Tech reporter October 17, 2019

The Kent State Honors College held a Career Conversations event in the Honors College Library on Thursday. Kent State alumni came and shared information about their career field in a Q&A setting with...

Kent State soars with new freshman class, largest Honors College in history

Katie Null September 13, 2019

Vice President of Enrollment Management Mary Parker began her presentation at Wednesday’s Board of Trustees meeting by changing the narrative on declining enrollment rates across Kent State University. “The...

Diacon announces hiring freeze due to $12 million budget gap

Molly Heideman September 9, 2019

During the Faculty Senate meeting Monday, President Todd Diacon announced the implementation of a hiring freeze for the university.Diacon said because of the university’s challenges of decreasing enrollment...

(PRINT VERSION) Provost Q and A

Nicole Ciccarelli February 5, 2017

Editor's note: Once a month, editors and producers from The Kent Stater and TV2 interview Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Todd Diacon about issues of importance to the university....

Wick Poetry Center offering $1000 scholarship through Honors College

Zak Kinkaid February 25, 2016

The Wick Poetry Center will offer a $1,000 scholarship award in March to be used in the 2016 fall semester for students in the Honors College.The scholarship is to be awarded to the best poem and each...

Honors College to host research-based lecture series

Kate Schwanke March 1, 2015

The Honors College will introduce its new series, Research Uncorked, on Thursday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m. at the Secret Cellar in downtown Kent. The series will focus on Kent State researchers coming together...

Thomas Davis

Retired KSU professor emeritus of English dies at 84

Alyssa Schmitt October 23, 2014

Thomas M. Davis, professor emeritus of English at Kent State, died Oct. 17, 2014.Davis became a part of the Kent community in 1968 when he joined the English Department. He began doing grave rubbings in...

Cuban-American author Cristina Garcia holds a book signing following her lecture about the importance of reading fiction Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 in the Kiva.

Cuban-American author stresses the importance of fictional reading

Arbrion Chambliss October 9, 2014

In Cuban-American novelist Cristina Garcia’s opinion, reading fiction still matters. Garcia shared her thoughts on the importance of reading fiction in a world full of so many distractions during a lecture...

Honors college students to host legislative workshop

Drew Jones April 21, 2014

A class of student from the Honors College will be conducting a Legislative Theater Workshop, a democratic, theatrical way of creating laws and polices, on Wednesday in the Oscar Ritchie multi-purpose...

Honors music students to perform

Drew Jones March 17, 2014

The Honors College Recital will be held this Thursday, March 20, at noon. The recital will be located at Ludwig Recital Hall in the Kent Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will feature honors...

Non-honors students can live in honors dorms next fall

Drew Jones March 2, 2014

Update: As of 2018, non-Honors students are not permitted to live in the Stopher-Johnson Living-Learning Community. Please contact the Honors College for more information.Starting next fall semester, honors...

Author Parker J. Palmer speaks about democracy in the African Community Theatre at Oscar Ritchie Hall, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.

Writer, activist takes democracy to heart

Drew Jones February 18, 2014

Parker J. Palmer, a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist, spoke Tuesday night in the African Community Theater in Ritchie Hall.“American democracy, is it dead, or alive?” Palmer asked at the...