¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø faculty, staff, students and parents are eligible for a 5 percent discount at the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Hotel and Conference Center. Rates vary depending on dates and occupancy. For more information and to book reservations, visit or call 330-346-0100.
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The ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Climate Survey will launch tomorrow, March 8, to assess the university’s climate. This is your opportunity to share your experience living, learning and working at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. Watch out for an email tomorrow from President Beverly Warren.
The Fashion School at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening.
As part of the Summit Street: Building a Better Way Improvement Project, the westbound lane on Summit Street, from Fraternity Circle to Whitehall Boulevard, will be closed to traffic beginning today, March 7, through November. One-way, one-lane eastbound traffic will be maintained, as well as access to adjacent buildings and intersecting roadways.
¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø professors Brian James Baer, Ph.D., and Theresa Minick, both from the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been awarded two federal government STARTALK grants, totaling $225,000, to support the Regents Foreign Language Academy, a summer language-immersion program for Ohio high school students.
Online final grading for spring 2016 First 7 Weeks (W1) courses meeting from Jan. 19 through March 6 began Thursday, March 4, via FlashFAST.

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, a graduate student at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø, was told that her father had a 10-percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.

The ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Climate Survey will launch March 8 to assess the university’s climate. All ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø faculty, staff and students universitywide have the opportunity to share their experience living, learning and working at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø. Add your voice! Visit www.kent.edu/voices.
Online final grading for spring 2016 First Half of the Semester (H1) courses meeting from Jan. 19 through March 9 begins Wednesday, March 9, via FlashFAST. Grading also is now available for any spring 2016 course section that was flexibly scheduled and has an end date no later than March 9. The deadline for grading submission is midnight on Tuesday, March 15.

Samantha Glass, sophomore computer science major, became ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø at Stark’s first University Innovation Fellow, which makes her part of a national program designed to train student leaders to create entrepreneurial opportunities at their schools.

The Executive MBA program at ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹Ù꿉۪s College of Business Administration has once again been ranked in the top tier of CEO Magazine’s Global Ranking.
Dear Employees of the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø Community,
This message serves to provide you with guidance should local, state and/or federal law enforcement visit our university campuses for the purposes of immigration law. As a public institution, ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø must comply with all federal laws and directives, including those related to law enforcement activities.
Dear Colleagues:
Please take note of the following important information regarding your 2024 Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's holiday closure for 2024 will begin Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, at 10:30 p.m. All offices will re-open on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. Employees not eligible for the paid leave include student employees, classified temporary staff, temporary agency staff, short-term unclassified appointments, unclassified intermittent appointments and employees in a lay-off status. More information on the holiday schedule, including how employees should report time during that period, will be available later this month.