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Priorities

Priorities

What Lies Ahead is Up to Us

Our purpose is to help students find theirs. No matter who they are or where they want to go, it’s up to us to open doors of opportunity. Through scholarship support, top-tier faculty and facilities, global education and high-impact experiences, our Golden Flashes will light up the future.

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Prioritizing Student Success

Raising funds to align with scholarship needs is our first priority at Kent State, and ensures that we support our students from the day they receive their letter of acceptance to the day they receive their degree.

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Global Education

Global Education

When Kent State students immerse themselves in places like Florence, New York, Ghana or Paris, they return with new perspectives and a sense of purpose that will illuminate the world.

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Beyond Academics

You belong here. It’s a promise we make to our students when they arrive, and it’s one that we fulfill through award-winning programming and resources to truly make feel like home while they earn their degree.

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Expanding University Initiatives

Athletics successes and collaborative additions to the university —like the Brain Health Research Institute and Design Innovation Initiative— have elevated our reputation and cemented our place on the world stage.

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Building the Future - Campus Improvements

Our physical spaces must reflect the innovative thinking, learning and creating that is happening inside. Imagine what we can accomplish if we give our minds room to grow in modern learning environments. 

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$383M

Total amount raised

$156M

Student Success amount raised

66,310

Number of campaign donors

Making An Impact

Our students, alumni and donors all help make the world Forever Brighter. Learn more about some of our most impressive community members.

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Pictured are (left to right) Ambassador Edward F. Crawford; Deborah Spake, dean of ’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship; Mary Crawford, Ambassador Crawford’s wife; and Kent State President Todd Diacon.
Building the Future, Crawford Hall

Historic Gift Names College and Building

The largest single philanthropic gift in history will complete the capital campaign to enable the construction of a new building for the college on the university’s Kent Campus.

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Expanding University Initiatives, Design Innovation Initiative

DI Maker Program Is Among World’s Best

Kent State’s Design Innovation Maker Program has been included in Newsweek’s 2021 list of Best Maker Schools in Higher Education that includes 200 universities worldwide.

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Expanding University Initiatives, Brain Health Research Institute

SkyHack 3.0 - Design Innovation Challenge

SkyHack 3.0 features student teams who will create an interactive toy ‘universe’ based on the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII and their training base, Avenger Field.  

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Prioritizing Student Success, Expanding University Initiatives, Building the Future

University Launches Fundraising Campaign

publicly launched a $350 million comprehensive fundraising campaign Saturday, Oct. 2, during a special halftime announcement at the Homecoming football game.

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Building the Future, College of Aeronautics and Engineering

Timken Foundation Donates Lead Gift

The Timken Foundation of Canton has donated a $1.5 million gift to the College of Aeronautics and Engineering Building expansion project. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Oct. 1 to officially begin this project that will add 80 percent more space to the college’s facilities.

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Prioritizing Student Success, Ensuring Access, Rewarding Achievement

Historic $10 Million Philanthropic Gift

The Podiatry Foundation has made an historic $10 million donation to Kent State to secure the financial and academic future of Ohio’s only podiatry college – College of Podiatric Medicine.

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CIANA W., '21
Prioritizing Student Success, Ensuring Access, Fostering Completion

Scholarships Make Graduation Possible

Finances had become tight as Ciana White, ’21, was preparing to start the final semester of her senior year. She and her mother worried how they would make the next tuition payment.

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Prioritizing Student Success, Enhancing Experiences

Study Abroad Changes Minds

Alberto traveled to Xi’an, China, in 2019 and spent a month studying Business Administration and Cross-Cultural Communication. “I learned so much during this trip, especially about Chinese culture and about the way Chinese people do business,” he said.

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Aleisha Moore, a postdoctoral fellow in Kent State’s Brain Health Research Institute
Aleisha Moore, a postdoctoral fellow in Kent State’s Brain Health Research Institute
Expanding University Initiatives, Brain Health Research Institute

Researching Fertility and the Brain

Aleisha Moore, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Kent State’s Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI), believes the origin for the leading cause of infertility in women will be found in the brain.

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Building the Future, College of Aeronautics and Engineering

Passionate About Aerospace Engineering

Sydney Bihn, ’20, became the first woman to graduate from Kent State’s Aerospace Engineering Program and also became a third-generation engineer in her family.

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Expanding University Initiatives, Intercollegiate Athletics

From Running Back to Entrepreneur

Will Matthews, ’19, harnessed that same dedication he exhibited in his athletic endeavors on the gridiron and channeled them into his Southern Comfort Kitchen food truck.

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Prioritizing Student Success, Rewarding Achievement

Goldwater Scholarship Recipient

Gracen Gerbig, ’20, saw the Goldwater Scholarship as a representation of the goals she was working toward throughout her Kent State career studying cellular and molecular biology. 

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