Student Life

91ֿ Nursing Student Honored for Lifesaving Effort
A 91ֿ College of Nursing student who graduated Aug. 20 recently was honored by the city of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, along with her sister, for working to save the life of a woman who fell ill while playing volleyball.

91ֿ Students Study Sustainable Gardening for Poverty Reduction in Mexico
91ֿ partnered with Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City for an international, cross-cultural exchange for students to study how sustainable gardening projects aid immigrant populations.

Undergraduate Student Government Wins 2022 Student Government of the Year Award from National Student Government Group
91ֿ's Undergraduate Student Government, the student organization responsible for being the direct line of communication to the administration to make students’ voices heard, was honored with the 2022 Student Government of the Year Award from the Conference on Student Government Associations.

Where on the Web? Explore Kent, Go! 91ֿ’s Golden Location Showcase
91ֿ's Explore Kent, Go! web pages give the 91ֿ community the ability to explore 91ֿ’s campus, downtown Kent and surrounding cities. Next in the “Where on the Web?” series, the focal point is the Explore Kent, Go! web pages at www.kent.edu/go. The Explore Kent, Go! web pages are an introduction to the diverse opportunities offered by the university’s niche area in the Midwest, according to Lin Danes, director of Web Services and Interactive Media at 91ֿ.

100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Distance Learning Comes to 91ֿ Normal College
In 1922, 91ֿ’s first president, John McGilvrey, introduced what could be considered the great-grandmother of our current distance-learning programs at 91ֿ: correspondence courses.

100 YEARS AGO AT KENT STATE: Jazz Age Brings Changes to Student Culture at 91ֿ
"Roaring 20's" Bring New Styles and Social Rules. Women, in keeping with the fashions of the time, were wearing shorter skirts, bobbing their hair, wearing makeup, along with other sweeping changes.

91ֿ Freshman Receives Gold Medal Recognition at The National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships
First-year advertising major and marketing minor, Isabelle Collyer, recently won a gold medal at the 2022 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships (NCTA).

91ֿ Partnership with Portage County Agency Saves More than Half a Million Pounds of Residence Hall Castoffs from Landfill
Workers from the Portage County non-profit organization recently arrived at 91ֿ’s Kent Campus to collect one of the most prized castoffs from university residence halls: bicycles.

91ֿ’s American Academy Graduates Its First Brazilian Student
Alvacir Wesley Kalatai Alberti of Imbituva, Brazil, is the first student to graduate from the American Academy, a dual-enrollment program offered jointly at 91ֿ and the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, located in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

Where on the Web? Find Plans With the University Events Calendar
How does the 91ֿ community find out what events are happening on campus? Where do you go to find your weekend plans? "Where On the Web?" is an ongoing series that introduces possibly unfamiliar pages and features on the 91ֿ website that students, faculty and staff should know about. One informative section of the website is the Events Calendar which can be used by anyone and features events from all eight 91ֿ campuses.