Food Pantry Helps Students

Food Pantry Helps Students

[bbrvideo]bbr_Jelinek_P3_pantryslug[/bbrvideo] During these tough economic times, some college students don’t have enough money to put groceries on the table. This is where the Women’s Center in Kent comes in. The Center provides a pantry that offers food and toiletries free of charge on an emergency basis for faculty, staff and students. The primary community served is women from the KSU community, and most are students here at the University. Other members of the community will not be turned away if…

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Alpha Phi Sisters Promoting Heart Health

Alpha Phi Sisters Promoting Heart Health

**Anchor: Ty Sugick** he ladies of the Alpha Phi Sorority, spent this past weekend raising awareness for heart disease in women. Last week the sisters set up booths, to raise money for The American Heart Association. They also held multiple events to such as Get Fit with the Phi’s (Ad Lib) King of Hearts which is a fun event in which other fraternities and sororities join in to help the cause, by performing skits to promote heart health and awareness….

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What Happens Next?

What Happens Next?

[bbrvideo]BBR_P3_McCarthy_President[/bbrvideo] On February 3rd 2015 President Beverly Warren gave a public account of what she’s learned after completing her 28 campus listening tour in December of 2014. The tours were put in place by Dr. Warren to help learn where Kent is both succeeding and also needing improvements. She held open forum conversations on various Kent State campuses with students, alumni, faculty and staff, and even parents to hear personal accounts of what Kent means to every kind of individual…

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Student organization raises money for your education

Student organization raises money for your education

While Kent State is a public university, support from the state is continuing to diminish to 20 percent. That other 80 is being raised right here on the Kent State campus. [bbrvideo]BBR_P3_EVANGELIST_FLASHANTHROPY[/bbrvideo] You may think that the student body has no say in the donations, but let me introduce you to a group called Flashanthropy. Flashanthropy, as their called, is KSU’s student run philanthropy group specifically dedicated to raising funds to undergraduate students. The organization is split up into four…

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Student enrollment drop projected

Student enrollment drop projected

[bbrvideo]BBR_WILSON_P3_ENROLLMENT1[/bbrvideo] The population of Kent State University is just over 29,000. With this amount of students on campus everything is running at full capacity, the Residence halls are all filled, the parking lots are full, and in most classes there are no empty seats. But what if that changed… What if the number of students decreased by a third or even half of its current total? With President Obama’s plan to make all community colleges free for two years this…

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