K-pop has taken the world by storm in recent years, and the Kennesaw State Seoul in Kennesaw Performance Team is at the center of the K-pop fandom on campus. Dancer and club videographer Edward Valdez plays an integral role in raising the team profile on campus. Valdez first heard about the club through involvement in other student organizations. He joined...

While it is important that full-time faculty members receive recognition for their service at Kennesaw State, it is unjust that their part-time counterparts are not also granted this courtesy. One of the most pivotal parts of the student experience at any university is the professors responsible for teaching the classes. Thousands of instructors are employed by KSU, and after a...

Two Kennesaw State baseball players have received preseason accolades as the team makes its final adjustments ahead of the 2020 season, as first announced by the Department of Athletics on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The Atlantic Sun Conference released its list of preseason all-conference players for the upcoming baseball season, which included KSU senior outfielder Terence Norman and redshirt senior infielder...

College students are adults with lives to maintain and should have the right to choose how to allocate their time. Kennesaw State professors who incorporate attendance into their grading policies are just trying to fill seats in their classes and not trying to get students to understand the content. There is a difference between being physically present and being mentally...

Students at Kennesaw State often feel a sense of dread when they hear during syllabus day that the professor uses an attendance policy. Contrary to this collective feeling, these policies often benefit students by improving their grades, setting up a structured learning environment and improving class quality. The percentage of class attendance rates are directly correlated with class grades and...

While students worry over parking, classes, housing and their financial situations, Kennesaw State unveiled a brand-new $1.8 million entrance on the Kennesaw campus, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It may make the entrance to the university much more appealing, but its cost blatantly disregards the individual and campus-wide needs that students have spent years asking for. Any student at KSU...

Kennesaw State Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dr. Renee Butler won 2020 Engineer of the Year in Education by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers Tuesday, Jan. 21, according to KSU News."It's really exciting, I'm very proud, very pleased and very honored for sure," Butler said. Butler said that her leadership at KSU helped her receive the honor she did."I...

Kennesaw State Professor of art education Dr. Diana Gregory is an award-winning artist, researcher and educator who helps stimulates her students' critical thinking. As a Graduate Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of art education in the School of Art and Design since 2006, Gregory helps current students prepare to become teachers of art themselves. The Art in Society class taught...

Kennesaw State College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Dr. Shawn Long accepted applications for a new dean advisory council this month to ensure students and administration in the CHSS are in communication. “This council serves as another vehicle for communicating with the various stakeholders and constituencies within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences," Long said. The dean advisory...

A new scholarship — the Rizzuto Family Endowed Travel Scholarship — will be introduced by Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture Anthony Rizzuto for Kennesaw State architecture students to study abroad in the 2020-21 academic year. The scholarship will support students in the College of Architecture and Construction Management for study abroad to experience architecture in the...