Success Stories
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Libraries will provide a solution to end-of-semester stress by giving students, faculty and staff the opportunity to unwind and get some pet therapy during finals week. 
Matheus Priosti came a long way to find his purpose. Five thousand miles, in fact.
The São Paulo, Brazil, native made the long journey from South America across the equator to arrive at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in August 2016, and he has never looked back.
A portion of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Kent Campus has taken its place alongside the nation’s most significant historic locations, joining such sites as the Grand Canyon National Park, Pearl Harbor and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Those 17 acres represent the location of the historic events of May 4, 1970, where protesting students, observers and soldiers gathered on that fateful day when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students and wounded nine others.
On April 12, future generations of business leaders got a first look at design concepts from several firms competing to develop Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s new College of Business Administration building.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees adopted a 10-year facilities master plan that embarks on a $1 billion transformative journey of the Kent Campus to better serve the needs of students and the entire Â鶹ÊÓƵ community. The plan enhances the welcoming feel of the university’s iconic Front Campus and genuine sense of place, elevates inclusive healthy living-learning environments, links a campus-wide series of spaces focused on innovation and expands the dynamic synergy with the city of Kent.
With exciting finishes by both the men’s and women’s basketball teams on March 5, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Golden Flashes will march on to Cleveland in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament at Quicken Loans Arena.
You will find Â鶹ÊÓƵ driving the region’s economy in nearly every sector of industry. From FedEx to Medical Mutual to Sherwin-Williams and the Cleveland Indians, our graduates are making dynamic impact and shaping lasting contributions across Northeast Ohio.
Every day, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and its graduates – including 109,000 alumni living in Ohio – are improving the quality of life for this region, and in the process, they are churning billions annually into the economy.
From Long Island to Â鶹ÊÓƵ and now Ghost Island. 
Three new college and career academies at Akron’s Firestone Community Learning Center will bear the name of Â鶹ÊÓƵ, as part of a new partnership announced Feb. 21 between the university and Akron Public Schools.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the latest in a growing number of area businesses and organizations that have joined hands with Akron Public Schools for its new College and Career Academies for Akron high schools.
Batman is coming to Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
In fact, so are Birdman, Betelgeuse and Vulture.
Oscar-nominated actor Michael Keaton will return to the campus he once walked as a student while dreaming about making it big in Hollywood. The leading man who has inspired millions in iconic roles on the big screen will now inspire thousands of new Â鶹ÊÓƵ graduates as he delivers the commencement address May 12 during Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s university-wide Commencement ceremony.