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Members of the community near the Kent State Ashtabula campus receive their COVID-19 vaccines in the campus gymnasium. 

Kent State Ashtabula helps city health department with COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Olivia Futo Reporter February 26, 2021

Locals of Ashtabula County now have access to COVID-19 vaccines because Kent State Ashtabula opened as a distribution center on Jan. 19. The Ashtabula City Health Department has been planning to work...

Samantha Spitak, the academic program coordinator of the Academic Success Center.

Kent State tutoring during the pandemic

Kandra Hill Reporter December 14, 2020

The Kent State Academic Success Center’s tutoring services offer convenience and flexibility with the switch to a remote platform due to the pandemic. “It allows for more flexibility for both students...

Ohio elections chief OKs drop boxes inside, outside boards

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's secretary of state adjusted his one-box-per-county restriction Monday to say counties may collect absentee ballots both at their buildings and at locations outside, an update...

Overall drop in Kent State regional campuses enrollment

Natalie Meek and Devon Parker September 17, 2017

Kent State’s fifteenth-day numbers revealed an overall decreasing trend for the seven regional campuses’ concurrent enrollment."Concurrent" data reflects all students attending a campus, regional and...

Highlights from today’s Board of Trustees meeting

Simon Hannig September 13, 2017

The Kent State University Board of Trustees met Wednesday.Here are some of the highlights from the meeting:Kent State's official Fall 2017 enrollment for the eight-campus system is 39,367, but is a 3.5...

Denise Seachrist

Seachrist to serve as Dean of KSU Stark

Alyssa Ronyak February 2, 2016

Denise A. Seachrist was named the new dean of Kent State Stark campus on Feb. 1. Seachrist's history with the university goes back nearly 30 years. During that time, she has been associated with both...

Kent State Trumbull to host 13th annual job fair

Anthony Cornwell September 20, 2015

Kent State’s Trumbull campus will host their 13th annual job fair Oct. 8 with the intention of helping students find potential careers.Anthony Zampino, an associate lecturer in Computer Technology and...

Data Collected From RPIE

New university commission aims to unite campuses

Hanna Moore October 6, 2014

Kent State faculty and staff members from all eight campuses began meeting to discuss a new program, One University Commission.President Beverly Warren and Provost Todd Diacon headed the commission, aiming...

Signed beam

Kent Stark faculty and staff sign beam on new science building

Josh Yager June 30, 2014

Stark Dean Walter Wagor and faculty signed the final beam for the new sciences building at the Kent Stark campus on June 25 before it was placed.Dr. Walter Wagor, Dean of Kent State University at Stark,...

Celebrate Earth Day at KSU at Stark

Julia Adkins April 24, 2014

Kent State at Stark will host an Earth Day Celebration Sunday, April 27, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Campus Center parking lot and at the pond/wetland area.  The commemorative celebration of Earth Day at...

Our View: An even burden

DKS Editors March 6, 2014

If a student was to sign up for an online class today at a regional campus, he or she would pay less than what a student at the main campus would pay.In theory, this aligns with the notion that students...

Pamela Carter, Kent State - Stark student, studies for her online statistics class.

Online courses to cost the same across campuses

Marissa Barnhart March 6, 2014

Deborah Huntsman, associate vice president of continuing and distance learning, said within the next two academic years, the cost of online classes will increase so they cost the same at every campus....