Some Kent State University students and alumni are lamenting the loss of programs that they say supported them after the university announced this week it will close the Multicultural, Women’s and LGBTQ+ centers in response to a new state law.

The university said Monday the centers will be closed by June 27, when Senate Bill 1 is set to go into effect in Ohio. That law bars diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education across the state.

However, the spaces that housed those centers will remain open, the university has said, and will still provide general support to "all students," Eboni Pringle, senior vice president for student life, wrote in a Monday letter.

Kade Ebert, an alumni, lived in the LGBTQ+ Living Learning Community, a program that reserved space in a residenc

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