Kent State University

Kent State University, mainly at Kent, Ohio; coeducational; founded 1910 as a normal school, became Kent State College in 1929, gained university status in 1935. The university's academic programs and research facilities include the Honors Center (begun in 1961 as an honors program, became in 1970 a separate college), the Center for Peaceful Change, and the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Insitute. Seven regional campuses of the university offer associate degrees. In May, 1970, national attention was focused on the Kent State campus when four students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti–Vietnam War protest.