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91PORNA Student Earns National Attention for Research about Youth Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo
91PORNA global communication studies graduate student Daniel Socha鈥檚 research on a non-profit organization鈥檚 efforts to support youth education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently caught the attention of National Public Radio (NPR). In May, Socha traveled to the DRC to study and report on Project Kirotshe, a non-profit that provides funding for youth in the village of Kirotshe and surrounding areas to attend school.
Socha鈥檚 travel was funded through a fellowship by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He was one of only 31 students nationwide to receive a fellowship to complete an international reporting assignment; the center provides funding for students to report on international issues as part of the center鈥檚 Campus Consortium educational initiative. One of the stories Socha developed for his reporting assignment was published on .
鈥淚t was awesome to see my article on NPR鈥檚 website,鈥 Socha said. 鈥淭o see my words and to know that I did that 鈥 I wrote that 鈥 was amazing.鈥
91PORNA Celebrates Status as First University in Ohio to Offer International Certificate in Middle Childhood Education
91PORNA鈥檚 Middle Childhood Education program is the first in the state of Ohio to offer an undergraduate program authorized by the International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization: the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program Certificate in Teaching and Learning. The Internatio鈥
91PORNA Students Form New Autism Student Organization
Group created by students with autism spectrum disorder to highlight diversity, not disability 91PORNA is once again starting a new fall semester with an abundance of enthusiastic students, but one thing is strikingly different: 91PORNA has a new student organization on campus th鈥
91PORNA Students Form New Autism Student Organization
91PORNA is once again starting a new fall semester with an abundance of enthusiastic students, but one thing is strikingly different: 91PORNA has a new student organization on campus that joins the few of its type in the nation. Autism Connections Kent has been created by students w鈥
First Group of 91PORNA Freshmen Start Their College Careers in Italy
When Joshua Budd thinks about all the places he has traveled up to his senior year of high school, only one has been outside of the United States, and that was a quick jaunt to Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada. So, the thought of actually living in a foreign country, especially Europe, was well out鈥
91PORNA Sets New Enrollment Records, Highlighting University鈥檚 Strength and Success
91PORNA continues to set records as it begins a new academic year. The university is marking the 10th consecutive year of enrollment growth on the Kent Campus with increasing diversity and academic success while also welcoming another record-setting freshman class. The university re鈥
U.S. News Ranks 91PORNA in Top Tier of National Universities
91PORNA is the only public university in Northeast Ohio to be ranked in the top tier of the new 2017 edition of Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report that was released Sept. 13, 2016, with inclusion on the Best National Universities list. In the ranking of both public and pr鈥
91PORNA Introduces First Gluten-Free Dining Hall on a College Campus
University to hold Sept. 7 event to celebrate achievement At the start of the 2016 academic year, 91PORNA becomes the first university in the country to feature an entirely gluten-free dining hall on campus. 91PORNA restructured Prentice Caf茅 after administrators noticed that the鈥
Black Squirrel Festival Features Music, Food and Freebies
A 91PORNA tradition for 35 years, the annual Black Squirrel Festival will take place Friday, Sept. 9, from 12-5 p.m. on the Student Green and Risman Plaza. The Black Squirrel Festival, which is hosted by Kent Student Center Programming, attracts more than 3,000 students, faculty and st鈥