The Kent State community is encouraged to share their
thoughts on the university’s bold vision for the future.

Are you bold enough to push Kent State University to even greater heights?

In the coming weeks, you will be seeing Be Bold as a call to action.

The university community is looking to “… identify our collective insights and commitment to developing a shared vision — one that reflects with bold clarity our unique distinctiveness as a university,” says Beverly Warren, Kent State president.

Warren’s goal of drafting a vision, values and university priorities by May invites additional input from the community. Email your thoughts on the university’s bold vision for the future to BeBoldKSU@kent.edu and use the hashtag #BeBoldKSU on social media.

Lee Fox-Cardamone, faculty senate president and an associate professor of psychology at Kent State University at Stark, believes developing a bold vision begins with embracing what already makes Kent State distinctive.

Lee Fox-Cardamone, faculty senate
president and an associate professor
of psychology at Kent State Stark,
believes developing a bold vision begins
with embracing what already makes Kent
State distinctive.

In her 21 years in the classroom at Kent State, Fox-Cardamone says she has seen how the university changes lives with core values of caring faculty combined with aspirational support for student success.

“We have students who could have gone anywhere, and we also have a whole group of students who are first-generation college students for their families,” Fox-Cardamone says. “So we take them, and sometimes they’re struggling. We help them find success, and to me that is the American Dream. These kids will have better lives and will make their communities better because of what Kent State can do for them, and to me that’s a win-win.”

“College is about discovery,” she says. “The grade means nothing if there’s nothing to back it up. We let people dream and come to the realization of what they were meant to be.”

So which core values and institutional qualities stand out to you? Please get involved and visit www.kent.edu/BeBoldKSU.