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Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ will hold its annual commemoration to honor the memory of May 4, 1970 – a tragic day when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on Â鶹¾«Ñ¡students during an anti-war protest on campus, killing four students and wounding nine others. May 4, 1970, marked a pivotal moment in American history. 

POV shares insights from the Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ community on important topics. In this essay for Â鶹¾«Ñ¡Today, Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ President Todd Diacon offers insight into the ongoing discussions over the future of public higher education in Ohio. 

When Matthew E. Likens, ‘75, returned to Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ April 15 for the Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurship Series, he brought students a candid look at the realities of leading a startup. Students got to see the highs, the failures and the lessons learned across decades in global business.

Laura Davis, Ph.D., co-founder and first director of Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s May 4 Visitors Center, was recently named a Woman of the Year by the Summit County Historical Society. Davis was a first-year student at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡on May 4, 1970, and she shares her journey to becoming an activist and what people today can learn from America’s history of protest. 

Fern Mallis, known as the "Godmother of American Fashion," can still recall the pivotal moment that helped shape her career and pave a path for tremendous success. It was 1991, and she was about to begin her role as the executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

For five Â鶹¾«Ñ¡students, the classroom recently transformed into a high-stakes public relations agency boardroom. Their efforts caught the attention of the industry’s top judges, earning the team a prestigious honorable mention in the 2026 Public Relations Student Society of America Bateman Case Study Competition.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡students learned how to express identity and share stories with bold color and design from a renowned, international artist as part of the 2025-2026 Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡'s School of Fashion opens its biggest week of the year on Monday, April 27, with events running daily through Saturday, May 2. The six-day stretch builds toward the Annual Fashion Show and culminates with the induction of Fern Mallis — widely known as the "Godmother of Fashion" — into the School of Fashion Hall of Fame.

The Earth Day Bash 2026 at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡'s brought together ecologically minded Golden Flashes and members of the community to celebrate Earth Day.

When Sydney Brown arrived at Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now Kent Stater TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in and tell stories has defined every semester since.

A new exhibition pairing fashion from Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Museum's collection with ornithological specimens from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History opened April 22 — Earth Day — at the Cleveland museum, where it will remain on view through Oct. 11.

An architectural ornament near Engleman Hall may be a subtle tribute to the tenacity of a Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ president at a particularly troubled time in the institution's long and storied history. 

Now officially approved as an experiential learning class, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program allows accounting students to provide free tax preparation services to community members while gaining hands-on experience that extends far beyond the classroom.

Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™s VA Work-Study Program has been working to expand its reach, servicing military-affiliated students to help them turn their service experience into academic credit, while providing meaningful hands-on opportunities for student workers.  

Campus grounds leaders are working to salvage trees removed due to storm damage, disease, the Main Street construction and other causes, transforming them into a resource for future academic and beautification projects.  

April showers have caused delays and presented challenges for Kent State's annual prairie burn.

The CARES Center celebrated its 5-year anniversary on Tuesday, April 14 with an open house that highlighted the accomplishments of the center over the last five years while providing opportunities for tours of the center, complete with birthday cake, refreshments and CARES Center swag.  

The nationally and internationally ranked Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ School of Fashion is thrilled to announce its acclaimed Annual Fashion Show will take place April 30-May 2, in Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus.

A $1.8 million gift from the Bedford Falls Foundation will fund 150 scholarships for Â鶹¾«Ñ¡nursing students over three years, addressing the national nursing shortage.

The world is a classroom for Â鶹¾«Ñ¡students engaging in experiential learning through a facilities tour of Rockwell Automation.