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Kennesaw State University Presidential Search Committees Named
February 01, 2018
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has named the two committees responsible for conducting a national search for the next president of Kennesaw State University (KSU): The Presidential Search and Screen Committee and the Regents' Special Committee.
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Kennesaw State University President Sam Olens Announces Plans to Step Down
December 14, 2017
Today, Kennesaw State University (KSU) President Sam Olens has announced he will step down as president effective Feb. 15, 2018. Olens has served as president since Nov. 1, 2016.
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Consular officials mark International Week at Kennesaw State
November 22, 2017
Some wore saris, embroidered robes or hijabs reflecting their national and cultural identities, but most of the international students, faculty and staff among the nearly 150 who gathered last week to hear a panel at Kennesaw State’s International Week 2017 were indistinguishable from their KSU peers.
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Division of Global Affairs receives Alif Institute honor
October 26, 2017
Based on nominations from the community, Kennesaw State University’s Division of Global Affairs was awarded a 2017 High Achiever Award by the Alif Institute, an Arab cultural center in Atlanta.
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Kennesaw State to officially install Sam Olens as fourth president
October 10, 2017
Samuel S. Olens will be formally vested as the fourth president of Kennesaw State University on October 19. The Campus community is invited to the Investiture Ceremony at the Convocation Center followed by an Investiture Celebration on the Campus Green.
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Kennesaw State University names chief of staff
October 09, 2017
Kennesaw State University has appointed public policy executive Alex McGee as vice president for external affairs and chief of staff, effective October 9.
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Professor and students win top honor at international migration conference
September 27, 2017
A Kennesaw State University professor and two of his doctoral students received “Best Paper” honor among the more than 500 papers scholars from around the globe submitted for presentation at the 2017 Migration Conference in Athens, Greece last month. Joseph Bock, director of the School of Conflict Management, Peace Building and Development and associate professor, co-wrote the paper – a survey of information and communications technologies (ICTs) that can be used to help migrants or to enhance how migrants can help each other – with Kevin McMahon and Ziaul Haque, both second-year students in Kennesaw State’s Ph.D. program in International Conflict Management.
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Kennesaw State honors outstanding faculty, staff
August 11, 2017
Kennesaw State University President Sam Olens recognized more than three dozen individuals Thursday during Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony at which the Kennesaw State University Foundation awarded more than $141,000.
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More than 3,200 graduate during Commencement ceremonies
May 02, 2017
More than 3,200 students will graduate during Kennesaw State University’s spring Commencement. Among the speakers who will deliver addresses are the first black female Air Force general, an internationally recognized entrepreneur, and a high school dropout who became a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and will graduate from medical school this month. Kennesaw State President Samuel S. Olens will preside over the five graduation ceremonies in the KSU Convocation Center on the Kennesaw Campus, beginning Tuesday, May 9, at 10 a.m.
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Asia-USA business forum to explore job-creating partnerships, global innovations, investor opportunities
March 29, 2017
The daylong SAUPO, organized by the Asian Studies Program at Kennesaw State University since 2011, provides opportunities for information exchange, network building, global visibility and investment to and from Asia.