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Petition for no-confidence vote against provost introduced at Faculty Senate

Emily Mills May 12, 2015

A Kent State professor introduced a petition at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting calling for a vote of no confidence against Provost Todd Diacon.The petition was created in response to Diacon’s vote...

Faculty Senate approves new major, changes to student dismissal process, post-secondary education

Jimmy Miller May 12, 2015

In its last meeting of 2015, Faculty Senate unanimously approved the creation of a Business Analytics major, lowered the GPA range for dismissal review and established a program to replace the Post-Secondary...

KSU professor fired after road rage incident

Madeleine Winer April 29, 2015

Kent State fired an assistant professor Wednesday after his April 15 road-rage fueled encounter.Linden Adkins, assistant professor for the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology,...

Provost Todd Diacon stands up and leaves after a question is directed at him during an open forum held by students to address the race issues at Kent State in the Governance Chambers on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

Students challenge Provost to increase funding for Pan-African and LGBTQ programs, address discrimination in tenure process

Matthew Merchant April 22, 2015

Alleged racial discrimination in the faculty tenure process was one of three concerns raised in a student-led forum on Wednesday in the Student Center Governance Chambers.More than 100 students, faculty...

Kent State faculty honored this week

Victoria Manenti April 16, 2015

The Kent State community celebrated faculty members during its third annual Faculty Appreciation Week from April 13 to 17.Todd Diacon, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, created the...

Faculty Senate addresses tenure and promotion concerns

Victoria Manenti April 13, 2015

Faculty Senate members discussed issues surrounding the university tenure and promotion process, approved two new Kent Core courses and elected new officers during their third meeting Monday.Todd Diacon,...

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KSU hopes to become a proposed manufacturing university

Jacob Runnels April 8, 2015

Kent State has expressed interest in becoming one of 25 selected universities to receive funding toward engineering and manufacturing programs from a new bill proposed by Congress.The Manufacturing Universities...

New majors, changes in bookstore and banking to come for KSU students in Fall 2015

TV2 News Report March 14, 2015

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Kent State prepares for two new two new VPs

Marissa Barnhart December 4, 2014

A search committee of faculty, administrators and Kent State community members have decided on finalists for the university’s next leader of fundraising efforts.Two candidates will visit campus to be...

Bruce Nieschwitz, Kent State athletic training alumnus and current NASA employee, presents the athletic deaprtment with a Kent State t-shirt that was given to an astronaut to wear in space at a reception Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014.

Kent State T-shirt finds its way home from space station

Joy TaMar Moorer October 3, 2014

A Kent State alumnus presented an autographed T-shirt worn by a NASA astronaut to Provost Todd Diacon and Jeff Huston, director of the Athletic Training Program, before speaking at a seminar hosted by...

Freshman enrollment closed for fall 2014

Kristen Kobe June 20, 2014

The demand to be a part of Kent State University’s 2014 freshmen class has forced university admissions to close enrollment for the Kent campus more than six weeks earlier than last year.“Kent reached...

Campus ‘experience’ linked to record high retention rate

Kristen Kobe June 20, 2014

The experiences that students have at Kent State University have resulted in a record high retention rate for fall 2014.  Freshman to sophomore retention rates have increased more than 5 percent compared...

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