Saturday, Dec. 19 is the day upcoming graduates will remember for a lifetime. Graduation comes along with many emotions and these emotions often follow with the thought of "What does my future look like?"Laura...
Kent State and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 153 reached an agreement Thursday, preventing a potential strike from campus workers, including custodians...
Kent State University conferred 4,512 degrees at commencement ceremonies held May 8 and 9.At the Kent campus alone, 3,883 degrees were conferred, including 2, 864 bachelor’s degrees, 874 master’s...
The LGBTQ Student Center will honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally students at the Lavender Graduation in the Moulton Hall Ballroom at 6 p.m.Lavender Graduation is a pre-commencement...
The life of a graduate student is different from the life of an undergraduate student, in that research projects are common and theses and dissertations, or final research projects, are a must to graduate.“The...
Happy Thanksgiving week, Buzz readers! I don’t know about you, but I am pumped to sit on my couch back home, eat and take naps for five whole days. Unfortunately, this excitement is killing my creativity...
Provost Todd Diacon created the university’s new Degree Completer Program to help students who dropped out return to school. Diacon said he was concerned for students who spent valuable time and money...
College isn’t always a four-year experience, even when enrolled in a four-year program. Some students attend college for longer than expected. Alicia Varcelli, a senior human development and family studies...
Like many of you, I’ll be graduating next weekend.Want to make a college senior instantly uncomfortable? Ask about his or her post-graduation plans.Last semester, I wrote a column about the challenges...
At the end of last semester, I found out that the Daily Kent Stater needed features writers. I had just graduated with my undergrad and was committing this semester to working in Cleveland and finishing...
One early summer evening in 2013, Tom Smigel sat with his girlfriend Jesika at his apartment, simply enjoying each other’s company. He handed over a fortune cookie, which she opened up, and a sudden...
When students get out of college, there is a good chance they will be unemployed at least once and working in a job that doesn’t require a degree.According to Mark Rank from Washington University, nearly...
