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A Homecoming Parade float carrying Â鶹ÊÓƵ President Todd Diacon and this year’s Grand Marshals, former Â鶹ÊÓƵ female student-athletes, makes its way down Main Street.

It’s time to wear blue and gold as the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Golden Flashes family reunites for Homecoming 2022. Â鶹ÊÓƵ will celebrate Homecoming with activities and events leading up to the Oct. 1 Homecoming Parade and Homecoming football game.

One of four Â鶹ÊÓƵ women's basketball teams in 1914.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ's history of women's athletics goes back more than 100 years. 

Tabitha Messmore addresses participants of Black Women Bosses (BWB) at the  cohort's graduation celebration.

Black Women Bosses (BWB) is designed to help participants learn leadership and business skills, gain community and practice self-care and confidence as an entrepreneur.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ students smile as they enjoy Homecoming Kickoff 2021.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s commitment to diversity and inclusion has been recognized with the 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. The annual award recognizes U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Astrid N. Sambolin Morales and her husband Francisco Torres, both assistant professors at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, visit with Astrid's Puerto Rican family.

The family of Astrid N. Sambolin Morales, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, is dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. They have been without electricity since the storm hit Sunday Sept. 18, 2022.

Homecoming 2022

The first full week of fall is also the most spirited week at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. The week of Sept. 26 to Oct. 1 is Spirit Week and includes homecoming weekend at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. The week will be full of events celebrating Â鶹ÊÓƵ spirit.

Professors Joanne Caniglia and Davison Mupinga from Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Education, Health and Human Services, recently traveled to the University of Rwanda to collaborate with educators there and identify mutual projects.

Two professors from Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s College of Education, Health and Human Services returned from a trip to the University of Rwanda (UR) energized by the new partnerships and collaborations they formed there.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ students from the Class of 2026 walk across Manchester Field.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees welcomed the Class of 2026 at the Board’s regular quarterly meeting held Sept. 21 at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Airport. Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s freshman class began classes on the Kent Campus nearly 7% larger than the previous year with 4,251 students – the eighth largest incoming class in the university’s 112-year history. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Class of 2026 form a K on campus.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Class of 2026 has arrived on the Kent Campus in strong numbers – 4,251 to be exact – an increase of nearly 7% over the previous year, the largest class since before the pandemic and the eighth largest incoming class in the university’s 112-year history. 

Popular musical group of the 1970s, Earth, Wind and Fire.

On this 21st day of September, we remember when Earth, Wind and Fire played at the Kent Student Center in October 1973.