NORTH CANTON – Betsy Boze, former dean of Kent State Stark campus, was involved in a vandalism incident early last week, a Feb. 17 Jackson Township police report said.

Boze allegedly used a can of spray paint to deface or alter a Stark State College parking sign.

Boze said she did not deface the sign, but corrected it. She said it had been leading Stark State students into a Kent State parking lot.

“It was not graffiti,” she said.

Kent State Provost Bob Frank would not comment on the police report.

“Dr. Boze is no longer dean on that campus,” he said, “and she is basically no longer a Kent State employee at the end of the fiscal year.”

Irene Lewis Motts, director of marketing and communications at Stark State, said the college would not comment on the police report at this time.

Jackson Township police were not available for comment.

Ruth Capasso, associate dean for academic affairs at Kent State, is serving as interim dean at the Stark campus until a search committee can find a permanent replacement, Frank said.

For more information, see tomorrow’s edition of the Daily Kent Stater.

Contact investigative reporter Maria Nann at [email protected].