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New software system aims to help students study abroad

Jenna Francis July 18, 2014

Kent State global education officials hope the software system, Terra Dotta, will make the process of studying abroad easier for students. The new system will be available for use fall of 2014. Ediz Kaykayoglu,...

Critical Language Scholarship Program provides intensive foreign language study

Chelsey Milkovich April 22, 2014

Student interest to study abroad in certain areas of the world has shifted because of language barriers leaving students discouraged from education in some overseas countries. However, the Office of Global...

Letter to the Editor from Mary McKee

Mary McKee April 17, 2014

I was saddened to learn from your front-page article entitled “Language barriers prevent abroad opportunities” Wednesday that Kent State students now increasingly prefer to “study abroad” while...

Russian Language and Cultural Society encourages study abroad

Chelsey Milkovich April 16, 2014

The interest in studying abroad in Russia brought students to Van Campen Hall on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. for the Russian Information night sponsored by the Russian Language and Cultural Society and Kent...

Our view: Traveling outside your comfort zone

DKS Editors April 14, 2014

Kent State study abroad coordinators say many students are choosing these days to study abroad or away in English-speaking countries, but they are hoping to see students start traveling to more unusual...

Employee for the Office of Global Education Nick Vasiloff holds up his sign which reads that his dream place to travel is Israel, at the I Love Travel Week event in the Kent State library Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014.

Language barriers prevent abroad opportunities

Chelsey Milkovich April 14, 2014

Kent State study abroad offers students a wide variety of options when choosing which programs to study through as well as many destination opportunities for travel.  However, multiple programs that study...

OGE to offer three new summer study abroad options to students

Chelsey Milkovich April 12, 2014

The Office of Global Education will be providing new options for summer 2014 study abroad programs for students who wish to study in South Korea, Japan and Spain.  Programs offered include Dankook University,...

OGE offers various study abroad opportunities

Chelsey Milkovich March 17, 2014

With fall 2014 study abroad program deadlines passed, interest in study abroad programs for spring 2015 become more popular. Aside from the more-favored programs such as the Geneva and Florence Institutes,...

The 2013 Global Health Immersion Course

Halie Rogers February 16, 2014

    Kent State’s Colleges of Public Health and Nursing offer students the opportunity to study abroad for a two-week course in Geneva, Switzerland.The course is open to all majors but preference is...

KSU Florence director brings myth of Renaissance city back to life

Jason Meek January 23, 2014

Fabrizio Ricciardelli, head of Kent State’s Florence program, gave a lecture Thursday entitled “The Myth of Renaissance Florence” in Satterfield Hall to explain the significance of Florence’s history...