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With the strong support of ����Թ� President Beverly Warren, who throughout her first year in office has encouraged undergraduates to enroll in at least 15 credit hours per semester in order to reap the personal, professional and financial benefits of graduating in four years, the ����Թ� State Board of Trustees today (June 4) eliminated the additional per-credit-hour fee charged to students who enroll in 17 and 18 credit hours per semester. The Board also increased the full-time fee plateau for ����Թ� Campus undergraduate students from the current range of 11-16 hours to 12-18 hours....

UPDATED JUNE 3, 2015: There are some changes to the media advisory that was sent June 1. Please note that the ����Թ� Board of Trustees will convene its next regular business meeting June 4 at 2:30 p.m. (instead of 3 p.m.). The Finance and Administration Committee meeting will meet from 12:45-2:15 p.m. Also, the Board meeting agenda has been revised. It is available at www.kent.edu/bot/meetings. ------------------------------------ The ����Թ� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Thursday, June 4. The Board is scheduled to convene at 2...

  East Liverpool – Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of ����Թ� at East Liverpool, announced those students named to the Spring 2015 President’s or Dean’s lists. To qualify for the President’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 or more credit hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the East Liverpool Campus.  The students and their hometowns are: President’s List Burton: Em...

Salem – Dr. Steve Nameth, dean of ����Թ� at Salem, announced those students named to the Spring 2015 President’s and Dean’s lists. To qualify for the President’s List, students must have a 4.0 grade point average and must have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must earn a 3.40 or greater grade point average and must have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester, the majority at the Salem Campus.  The students and their hometowns are: President’s List Boardman: Jennifer Leyko Campbell: Alexandra Petrelis Col...

In fall 2015, Fairless High School students will be within walking distance to ����Թ� at Stark, shortening the span to their college degrees. On Thursday, May 28, ����Թ� State Stark Dean Denise Seachrist and Fairless Local Schools Superintendent Broc Bidlack signed a College Credit Plus agreement. The partnership will allow the high school students from the district, located in Navarre, Ohio, to earn university credits toward their college degrees. When fall semester begins, enrolled Fairless students will leave their high school to attend classes, but they won’t need to go ...

  ����Թ� nursing and public health students are learning about how faith based organizations play a key role in providing health care around the world. As part of their degree program, 20 students, along with Ken Slenkovich, assistant dean of ����Թ� State’s College of Public Health, attended the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.  This is the 5th year that ����Թ� State students have attended the meeting. They also visited the World Council for Churches to learn how the organization’s work relates to global health and healing. Read more about ����Թ� State’s v...

Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in ����Թ�’s Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society’s 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her presentation on “Visualizing Gold Nanoparticle Chirality via Nematic Liquid Crystals.” According to the Materials Research Society, “the awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and dis...