Prioritizing Student Success

Undergraduate Student Government Wins 2022 Student Government of the Year Award from National Student Government Group
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì'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.

American Academy’s First Graduate
Kalatai Alberti, ’22, enrolled in the American Academy (AA) in Brazil when it launched in 2018. AA is a dual-enrollment program offered jointly at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), located in Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.

New Scholarship Funds For STEM Students
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University has been awarded $1.5 million from the state of Ohio for the Choose Ohio First program that supports students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Rising Scholars Enjoy Summer Activities
Students in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Rising Scholars Program were involved in a wide variety of activities, workshops and programs this summer as part of their yearlong participation in this immersive regional campus program.

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì 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).

New Police Officer Training Program Grant
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s Basic Police Officer Training Academy has received a grant to fund a program to increase the competency of cadets as well as to develop their communication skills during interactions with Black community members.

Senior Receives Fulbright Scholarship
In an impressive close to her undergraduate career, ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Honors College senior Mallory Woods, ’22, was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Award (ETA).

Celebrating KSU Birthday With Giving Day
ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University celebrated its 112th birthday on May 19 by launching its first-ever Day of Giving and raising $65,000 from more than 350 alumni, friends and partners in 24 hours to support a variety of scholarships.

MLIS student Amanda Gedeon Named GBH/IMLS Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellow
The fellowship will support the efforts to preserve and catalog WKSU's historic sound and moving image materials.

Planned Gift to Support Student-Athletes
George Jenkins, ’63, and his wife Gina, recently established a planned gift to create the Gina and George Jenkins Student-Athlete Scholarship Fund. The scholarship will give preference to students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly those from the Appalachian region.