Author: Sabrina Kerns

KSU’s Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Linda Noble announced a string of new deans and interim deans during May in an attempt to fill these positions during the university’s transition in leadership.

KSU’s Analytics and Data Science Institute recently published videos encouraging women from different disciplines and backgrounds to explore analytics and data science as part of a “Women in Data Science” initiative.

KSU’s presidential search and screening committee met with presidential candidates for the first time May 14 and 15 to learn more about their qualifications.

KSU’s Office of Victim Services held a “Take Back the Night” event for students to share their stories of abuse on Wednesday, April 18, in the Legacy Gazebo outside of the Social Sciences building in honor of Sexual Assault and Alcohol Awareness month.

KSU dismissed two football players from the team after they were arrested April 18 for their alleged involvement in an armed robbery at the Austin Residential Complex on Friday, April 13.

Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Linda Noble announced in an email to students, faculty and staff on Tuesday, April 19, that KSU will continue the Culinary, Sustainability and Hospitality degree program, but students and faculty are still concerned for the program’s future.

Faculty and students within KSU’s Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality program have recently expressed concern over the program’s future and the university’s handling of the program’s termination.

KSU plans to start the search process for the institution’s new Chief Information Officer after the completion of the position’s job description, university spokeswoman Tammy DeMel said.

KSU’s Auxiliary Services recently changed its name to Campus Services and plans to open new customer service centers on the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses for the fall 2018 semester.

KSU’s faculty senate sent a letter to the Board of Regents on March 14 to highlight and remind the board about two conditions involving KSU’s presidential search.

A professor from KSU’s School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality planned to speak at a faculty senate meeting Monday, March 26, to ask for the senate’s backing in pushing the university to provide a fair review process to determine whether the program should be deactivated.