News & Events

Keene State is counting down to the day when we honor our most recent graduates during Commencement. This year the ceremony will be held on May 11, at 1 p.m. on Fiske Quad . In addition to celebrating graduates, the College will bestow an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree...

Last semester, while Coraline Seksinsky was taking Professor Nicholas Germana’s history course Masters and Slaves, she was struck by how much she could relate her own experience as a transgender woman to notions of oppression developed by Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel – a German philosopher active around the turn of...

Keene State College marked the opening of an addition to the Mason Library that provides a work space for the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and its academic degree program. The additional space, which opened on April 6, houses classroom, conference, office, and storage space for growing collections...

Bessemer, Alabama, February 1946: Timothy Hood, an African American man and honorably discharged Marine, was shot several times by a white streetcar conductor after he moved a Blacks Only sign in the back of a bus. Critically injured, Hood was then shot to death by the police chief from a...

Relay for Life is the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Association. The idea was started by Gordy Klatt, who walked and ran 83 miles around a track in 24 hours in 1985. In 2010, then-student Becca Lazinsk ’13 started Relay for Life at Keene State College. In the first...