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A group of 5XÉçÇø students spent their spring break learning in Italy and Greece and attending the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympics as part of the Business of the Olympics, an advanced sports administration course.
Rwanda's Minister of Health was part of a delegation that visited Kent State to meet with administrators from Kent State's Office of Global Education and Rwandan students currently studying at Kent State.
A Kent State student's plan to study abroad this spring also gave the opportunity to fulfill a longtime dream.
In December 2025, Francis Rubagumya, 37, walked across the stage at Kent State's commencement with a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language — and a plan to take every lesson he had learned back to the country he loves Rwanda.
Practical experience – and hustle – took recent Kent State graduate Austin Monte from producing events on campus to bringing the world the 2026 Winter Olympics for NBC Sports.