Written by Zaria Johnson on April 24, 2021
When student athletes attend university many require financial support through both scholarships and other forms of funding to stay afloat. Kent State’s Athletic Advancement department aims to do so through donations and philanthropy.
While colleges and universities across the country were left reeling with safety concerns and changes that came along with the COVID-19 pandemic, Kent State student athletes were sent home to continue their studies remotely.
Meanwhile, many university programs, such as the Athletic Advancement program, had to figure out how to run things as normal as possible under unprecedented circumstances.
Like many people transitioning to remote work last March, Maggie McKendry, assistant athletic director and director of philanthropy for athletic advancement, assumed it would be a short, two week period before they’d be back in the office and everything would go back to business as usual.