After becoming the new director of the Kent State University Museum July 1, Sarah Spinner Liska got to work —...
Kent State University has long had an undergraduate literary magazine, but it lacked a graduate, student-run publication.
Last week in Round Two, I discussed how almost nothing about college sports makes sense anymore, including simple math (the Big Ten Conference has 18 teams) and geography (two California schools, Stanford and Cal, are now in the Atlantic Coast Conference).
Each year, Kent State University community members and visitors gather on the Kent State Commons for the annual May 4 Commemoration to pay tribute to those who were killed and wounded on May 4, 1970.
The Ohio State University Extension Portage County Master Gardeners is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a qualifying student.
Rob Senderoff is 247-147 in 12 seasons as the men’s basketball head coach at Kent State University, making him the winningest and longest-tenured coach in program history. His Golden Flashes won Mid-American Conference regular season and tournament championships in 2017 and 2023, automatically qualifying for the NCAA Tournament both years. Last season’s squad went 28-7, the best record of Senderoff’s career and the best by the Flashes since the 2007-08 campaign. And he earned MAC Coach of the Year honors in 2022.
Once a decade, Kent leaders must adjust the city’s six political ward boundaries based on new U.S. Census data so the populations are roughly equal.
July 1, 2021 will go down as the day college sports changed forever.
On that day, the NCAA approved its NIL policy allowing all NCAA Division I, II and III student-athletes to be compensated for their name, image and likeness – regardless of whether their state has an NIL law in place or not.
The college football preview magazines are out for the 2023 season, and it’s obvious what the prognosticators expect from your Kent State Golden Flashes this fall:
Next to nothing.
A local entrepreneur and former Kent State student, along with a group of investors, has been buying properties around Kent for the past two years and now owns a quarter of the city’s licensed rental units.