Kasich Appoints Student Trustee at Kent State

The newest member of the Board of Trustees is a graduate student studying public administration.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich appointed Hudson native Chelsea Knowles to serve as one of two student representatives on the board that governs Kent State. She was appointed this month and will serve a two-year term that ends in May 2013.

According to the university, Knowles has been very active on the campus, especially in the College of Business Administration. She served as the student representative on the Undergraduate College of Business Curriculum Committee; a member of the Kent State chapters of the American Marketing Association, Financial Management Association and the College Entrepreneurs Organization; a member of the Business Professionals’ Roundtable, a member of an advisory committee to the business dean’s office; a social networking administrator for the Honors College; a student associate in the First-Year Experience course; and a student tutor in writing and math.

She currently is a graduate assistant in the university’s Academic Success Center.