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Vera LeCount is a fourth year Fashion Merchandising student at Kent State. She recently studied abroad in Hong Kong through the KSU School of Fashion program at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and then later interned in Tokyo, Japan as a KSU Freeman Fellow. Studying Abroad in Hong KongVera knew she wanted to study abroad somewhere in Asia, but wasn’t quite sure where. What pushed her to apply to study at Hong Kong Polytechnic University was a close friend of hers also wanting to apply to the program. They decided to study abroad together in Hong Kong, making the experience all the more m...

��ñ��’s Regional Campuses were the focus of President Todd Diacon’s Feb. 19 Talking With Todd town hall-style Teams meeting with the campus community.He also spoke at length about the Regional Campuses, including ongoing centralization plans, the introduction of new 90-credit degree programs, and the opportunities and challenges that are ahead.“The future of our Regional Campuses is in enrolling more degree-seeking adult students, which means creating more programs designed to meet the needs of working adults’ schedules,” Diacon said. Watch Talking With Todd:{"preview_thum...

The ��ñ�� Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in the Center for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, 350 S. Lincoln St., Kent Campus. The Board will consider the recommendations of the standing committees, proposed personnel actions and new business. Trustees will retire into executive session to consider specific topics as provided under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.” The roll call vote for this session will occur at 8 a.m. in public in the Center for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement’s Boardroom 301.A limited number of seats...

For ��ñ�� alumna and Northeast Ohio art educator Jennifer Thompson, art – and ��ñ��in particular – have been a lifelong part of her story, beginning in her pre-teen years. “My connection to ��ñ�� began long before I was a college student,” Thompson said. “In middle school, I saw flyers for the Saturday Art Program at KSU, and my mom enrolled me in a clay class. Years later, during my undergraduate studies, I returned to those very classrooms, this time as the teacher.”  While Thompson initially started college at another university, it was u...

The first time Francis Rubagumya saw snow, he was standing on the Kent Campus, and he couldn't move. It was the winter of 2024, and Northeast Ohio was doing what it does — blanketing everything in white and cold. For most students walking to class that morning, it was just another January. For Rubagumya, who grew up in Kigali, Rwanda, where the temperature rarely strays from a gentle 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and snow is something you see in pictures, it was nothing short of astonishing."I used to see snow in the movies, just in photos," he said. "But to be there — in it — it was crazy. I re...

Student athletes are hard workers. Between classes, practice and games, the pressure to succeed in multiple areas of their lives is constant.Stephanie Frusteri, Founder and CEO of Zone Performance, wanted to address this problem before it affected athletes on the field.“Everyone addresses the crisis,” said Frusteri, “but … what happens in those seconds before? There wasn’t anything for those moments, and at the end of the day, before a student is on the verge of breaking down or spiraling out of control, it’s those 10 to 90 seconds before that matters the most.” Last fall, Frusteri was aw...