Kent State University

From Freepedia

Kent State University
Motto Imagine
Established 1910
School type Public (state university)
President Carol A. Cartwright
Location Kent, Ohio, United States
Campus 824 acres (1.29 square miles/3.33 square km)
Enrollment 30,138 (Fall, 2005, all campuses) undergraduate,
5,320 (Fall, 2005, all campuses) graduate
Faculty 2,173 (Fall, 2005, all campuses)
Mascot Golden Flashes
'
Official website http://www.kent.edu/

Kent State University (also known as Kent State or KSU) is an institution of higher learning located in Kent, Ohio, which is about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, and 12 miles from Akron, Ohio. It is the second largest university in Ohio, with more than 35,000 students on eight campuses. Regional campuses include Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas.

The school's sports teams are called the Golden Flashes. They compete in the NCAA's Division I-A, and the Mid-American Conference.

Contents

Academic divisions

Kent State has colleges of Arts and Sciences; Architecture and Environmental Design; Business Administration; Communication and Information; Education, Health, and Human Services; Fine and Professional Arts; and Nursing; along with a School of Technology. The university also has interdisciplinary programs in Biomedical Sciences; Financial Engineering; and Information Architecture and Knowledge Management.

Notable programs

Kent State University is the only institution in the state of Ohio to offer a degree in Library and Information Science at this time. The university's Liquid Crystal Institute has an international reputation for research in optics and chemical physics. Other notable programs include the Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman School of Fashion Design and Merchandising and the Center for the Study of World Musics.

Prices effective Fall 2004

  • By Semester: $3,752 In state, $7,258 Out of state
  • By Year: $3,990 In state, $14,516 Out of state
  • Room and Board by Semester: $3,205 In state, $3,205 Out of state
  • Room and Board by Year: $6,410 In state, $6,410 Out of state

Copied from this page

History

The university is best known outside Ohio for a single event: the Kent State shootings, in which four students were killed and nine were wounded by the National Guard on May 4, 1970. A photograph of 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio, crying while kneeling over the body of the slain student Jeffrey Miller, became one of the most enduring images of the turbulent Vietnam War-era in the United States. The photo won a Pulitzer Prize for photographer John Filo, who was a Kent State photojournalism student at the time.

Famous alumni

Victims of Kent State shootings

External links

References

"2004 Flash Facts". Kent State University Flash Facts 2004-2005. URL accessed on April 23, 2005.


Mid-American Conference:
EAST: Akron | Bowling Green | Buffalo | Kent State | Miami | Ohio | Temple (football only)
WEST: Ball State | Central Michigan | Eastern Michigan | Northern Illinois | Toledo | Western Michigan 		Image:MidAmericanConference 100.png


Public universities in Ohio
Akron • Bowling Green • Central State • Cincinnati • Cleveland State • Kent State • Medical Ohio • Miami • NEOUCOM • Ohio State • Ohio • Shawnee State • Toledo • Wright State • Youngstown State
Image:Ohio state seal.png

Retrieved from "http://en.freepedia.org/Kent_State_University.html"


Views
Personal tools
Similar Links