As Kennesaw State continues to expand each year, changes within the campus structure are made in efforts of improving the university as a whole. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences reflected the changing environment of KSU and hired Dr. Shawn Long as dean, making him the first black person to ever serve as dean of the school. Previously, Long...

The Kennesaw State University Bookstore's program, Day One Access, improved and grew since its inception to prepare students to save thousands of dollars on textbooks and course materials for Fall 2019. According to Director of University Stores Paul Oliphant, savings to students participating in the Day One Access program during the Fall 2019 semester are expected to be as high...

The AVATAR lab in the Bagwell College of Education at Kennesaw State is a mixed reality simulation program that immerses students and teachers in real-world scenarios. MRS includes both virtual and human components. Participants engage in a scenario of their choosing where they interact with digital avatars that behave like real people. This MRS creates an artificial version of hundreds...

It is essential that students participate in protecting their immigrant classmates against the threatening actions of the U. S Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is the duty of everyone, even college students, to stand up to the unjust conditions that immigrants are facing in detention centers that lack adequate food, water and medical care. In 2010, Kennesaw State campus police...

Kennesaw State student Daisy McGrath is the first and only student from Georgia to receive an undergraduate research fellowship at the American Society for Microbiology."This is the first time that anyone in attendance has been awarded this fellowship, so that alone feels pretty special," McGrath said. "There are only 20 students in the whole nation who get awarded this scholarship,...

Dignitaries from Montepulciano, Italy, held a reception for Kennesaw State students earlier this month to celebrate their work digitizing thousands of documents and records from within the town's archive over the summer. Some of the handwritten documents date all the way back to the 14th century, and the records contain information about the construction of the church of San Biago,...

A 2013 study by Career Builder found that one in three college graduates have jobs completely unrelated to their major. Perhaps nobody knows this better than Trevor Startt, a musician who graduated from Kennesaw State in 2007 as a communications major. Startt is a singer-songwriter from Kennesaw who grew up singing in his church and constantly surrounded by a world...

The Cultural and Community Centers of Kennesaw State conducted a showing of a PBS documentary, “The Fight for Women’s Rights,” in the women’s resource center of the Kennesaw campus July 9. “The WRC chose this film because it showed the commitment and strength of women during the Women’s Rights Movement," CCC Coordinator Dani Alexander said. Alexander hoped that by showing...

With August quickly approaching, Kennesaw State students are starting to slowly prepare for their fall classes. As students start to pack their bags, all of the build-up, excitement and preparation leading up to that first week of classes suddenly drops off when professors decide to use that first day of class to simply review their syllabus — a process that...

This Fall semester, students will be greeted with a tuition bill slightly higher than they have seen before — $68 more for in-state students and $200 more for out-of-state students, according to a budget statement by the University System of Georgia. In the moment it may seem minor, but over the course of four years, a student pays $544 more...