Kent State University President Lester Lefton will retire next summer. Lefton, 66, has served as president of Ohio’s second largest public university since 2006. Lefton previously was provost of Tulane University and held administrative roles at the University of South Carolina and George Washington University. In a written statement, the chairwoman of Kent State’s Board of Trustees [...]
Forty-two years ago today, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on an anti-war rally on the Kent State University campus, wounding nine and killing four. Kent State student Alan Canfora was one of the students who gathered on the school’s Commons, a grassy area bounded by gentle hills. He says he was angry his friend was [...]
The Daily Kent Stater reports that Kent State met NCAA game attendance requirements by using athletic department funds to “purchase” tickets after the end of the season. Kent State and other NCAA Division I football schools must meet attendance requirements or risk losing Division 1-A status. They must show an average of 15,000 attendees — [...]
Kent State University has launched a new $100,000 advertising campaign featuring nearly 20 billboards proclaiming Kent State State “#1 in college graduates in Northeast Ohio.” But what exactly does that mean? A commenter on Kent State’s Facebook wall wrote: “I saw it on I77 in Cleveland. I’m not exactly sure what it means, though. Does [...]
The student newspaper at Kent State University, the Daily Kent Stater, broke the story about the university’s plans to name center court at the school’s basketball arena in honor of a graduate involved in the sale of millions of dollars of fraudulent stocks. Alumnus Jason Cope withdrew his donation the day before the Stater published its story, [...]
The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss picked up on our Oct. 10 story on former D.C. public schools chief Michelle Rhee’s $35,000 speaking fee for a talk she gave at Kent State University’s Stark Campus earlier this month: How much money do you think Michelle Rhee, former Washington D.C. schools superintendent who now runs an organization [...]
Senate Bill 5, issue 2 on the November ballots, would severely limit the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Ohio. But its biggest impact may be the least talked about: eliminating college faculty unions.
Michelle Rhee spoke at Kent State University’s Stark Campus yesterday. North Canton Patch reports that Rhee said there really is no single answer to solving education’s problems: What is the answer to education reform? Rhee believes three factors are the focus of reform. First, recognize that there are “unbelievably great teachers doing great things for [...]
Michelle Rhee, the former D.C. public schools chief, will speak to a full house at Kent State University’s Stark campus tonight as part of its Featured Speakers Series. In response, the university’s education faculty will hold their own event later this month to present “an insider’s view of education as a profession.” The Rhee speech this [...]
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