The Ohio governor, who ran in the Republican primary for president in 2016, is reported to have interest in challenging President Donald Trump in 2020.
But it's his commitment to public service that drew Kennedy School officials to invite him to the May 23 graduation, Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf told The Harvard Crimson, while noting Ohio's economic growth during Kasich time as governor: "We look for people who have made important contributions to public policy and who can convey to our graduating students and their parents and family members a vision of what people going into public service can do in the world," the dean said.
Amherst College "preaches diversity and inclusion," said one junior, but the school's Mead Art Museum "is lacking some female artists of color."
Several students expressed support for art exploring "non-conforming gender expression" during a gathering at the museum of Amherst undergraduates who are taking a course called "Collecting 101: Acquiring Art of the Mead," according to The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
