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Motorcycle Ohio, a program of the Ohio Traffic Safety Office, is celebrating the opening of its newest motorcycle rider training site at the ����ɫ��ҹ Stark campus in North Canton. The new location was launched in partnership with the Stark County Sheriff's Office and will expand access to motorcycle safety education for residents in the region.The opening of the new Stark County site comes at an important time: May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, a great reminder for both riders and drivers to do their part to help reduce motorcycle-related crashes. Recent data underscores the importan...

The Child Development Center (CDC) was buzzing with a special kind of energy this week as it hosted Kent City Mayor Jack Amrhein for the highly anticipated Lego City Grand Opening. The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked a full-circle moment for the kindergarteners, who originally met with the mayor earlier in the academic year. Inspired by that meeting, the students spent months designing and assembling their own miniature metropolis. For Mayor Amrhein, celebrating his 70th birthday, the visit was more than just a ceremonial duty, it was a return to his academic roots. As a proud ����ɫ��ҹ a...

Community is important to Timothy “Tim” Crock, and as a lifelong resident of Kent, Ohio, he wants to help Kent area students advance their education right here at home, empowering them to achieve and build their careers in their own community.“You develop ties to the place you go to college,” Tim explained. “I believe that when you go to college close to home, you keep your ties to the community and will keep supporting it.”As a 1978 graduate of Theodore (Kent) Roosevelt High School, Tim decided to leave a legacy by creating two scholarships that help Kent Roosevelt students enroll at Kent Sta...

����ɫ��ҹ University at Stark welcomed 40 high school students to campus this spring for two leadership development events designed to promote confidence, encourage critical thinking and prepare the next generation of community leaders.The campus hosted students from Stark County high schools on March 18 and again on April 8 as part of its annual partnership with the Youth Leadership Academy of Stark County. The March event marked the seventh year of Junior Leadership Day, bringing together 40 high school juniors, including one male and one female student from each Stark County school distric...

Ronald R. “Ron,” ’88, and Mary L. Rivett, ’72, MS ’84, had a mutual love of science and computers. Although they were both from the same town in Northeast Ohio and attended the same high school, they didn’t get to know each other until a chance encounter in 1971 when she was student teaching. When Ron visited his former high school teacher, Andrew Kmetz, he thought they would have a lot in common and convinced Ron to ask her out. The couple married in 1973 and decided early on not to have children.Before Ron passed away in February 2025 from pancreatic cancer, he and Mary decided to make Kent ...

Second-year business management and finance major Nathan Smith of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was recently elected as president of ����ɫ��ҹ’s Undergraduate Student Government, along with his Vice President, Ridwan Olayiwola, a mechanical engineering major. Nathan and Ridwan will officially begin in their leadership roles on April 29, 2026.   Q: Tell us about your involvement at ����ɫ��ҹ.A: I have been involved in Undergraduate Student Government (USG) for two years – the first year as an intern, and this year as senator for the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entr...

Managers and supervisors should have received information from the Controller's Office regarding the cut-off dates for financial transactions for the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30. View the deadlines for receipt of information and other year-end announcements online at www.kent.edu/controller under Financial Accounting/Fiscal Year End Deadlines.  The Controller's Office appreciates timely submissions of documents to ensure that a timely year-end cut-off has occurred.The FY2026 year is scheduled to close the evening of July 14, 2026, and the final June Flashline reports should...