Daily Brief
Sept. 23, 2026
KU Rises in 2027 U.S. News and World Report Rankings for Best Regional Universities
Kutztown University has been named a "Best Regional University" for 2027 in the U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of U.S. colleges and universities. U.S. News lists KU as No. 107 in the first tier of the Best Regional Universities for the northern region, five spots higher than last year. KU has been ranked in the first tier since 2011. Additionally, KU improved nine spots to No. 33 among Top Public Schools for Regional Universities in the North.
U.S. News and World Report Rankings for Best Regional Universities
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Announcements
Clay Club's Visiting Artist Bryan Czibesz
Bryan Czibesz explores a range of materials and fabrication technologies, including hand building with clay, digital 3D printing and tinkering with microcontrollers. The resultant sculptural configurations are juxtapositions of body and machine that invoke binary dialogues about the biological and artificial, intriguing and mundane, graceful and awkward, refined and ridiculous and foreign and uncanny in the human experience, often with the viewer acting as active witness/participant. Czibesz will be showing how to build complexity into pieces by constructing forms using multiple 3D printed clay forms. His artist lecture is 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, 108 Sharadin. There will be three opportunities to see his demonstrations; 4-6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, noon to 3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, 108 Sharadin.
gwendolyn yoppolo, Clay Club, Department of Art and Design
PASSHE Summit Registration
In six weeks, Kutztown University is excited to be hosting the PASSHE Summit, Oct. 28-29. Thank you to our host committee for all the hard work leading up to the summit. Even though the event is on campus, members of the Kutztown community will still need to register for the summit. Registration closes Wednesday, Oct. 14, and there are options to attend in person or virtually. Registration is free for all PASSHE students, staff and faculty. There will be great keynote and other speakers, so please register as soon as possible.
Jerry Schearer, Chief Diversity Officer, Diversity and Inclusion
Fifth Annual KU Career Classic Golf and Networking Outing
The Career Development Center, in partnership with the KU Men’s Golf Club and College of Business, hosted its fifth annual KU Career Classic Golf and Networking Outing Friday, Sept. 11 at Golden Oaks Golf Club. We truly appreciate everyone who contributed to another memorable outing and helped make it a great experience for our KU community and business partners. A special thank you to our sponsors, golfers, donors and volunteers for helping make this year’s Career Classic a success.
Jenelle Henry, Career Development Center
Upcoming Events
| Date | Time | Event |
| Sept. 23 | 10 a.m. | Miller-Keystone Blood Drive 218 MSU (Register) |
| Sept. 24 | 11 a.m. | Starfish Express Workshop Zoom |
| Sept. 24 | 11 a.m. | Study Abroad Fair 218 MSU |
| Sept. 24 | 11 a.m. | University Curriculum Committee Zoom |
| Sept. 24 | 1:30 p.m. | Council of Trustees Committee Meetings 322, 323, 324, 325 MSU |
| Sept. 24 | 3 p.m. | Council of Trustees Plenary Session 250 MSU |
| Sept. 24 | 6:30 p.m. | The Fourth Planet Wells-Rapp Center (Tickets) |
| Sept. 25 | 10 a.m. | Social Media Training 102 AF (Register) |
| Sept. 26 | -- | Family Day |
| Sept. 26 | 11 a.m. | Heemet Fescht Sharadin Farm |
| Sept. 28 | 3 p.m. | Artist Lecture: Bryan Czibesz 108 Sharadin |
| Sept. 29 | 9 a.m. | Faculty and Staff Headshots 195 MSU |
| Sept. 29 | 3 p.m. | Starfish Express Workshop Zoom |
| Sept. 29 | Noon | Clay Demonstration: Bryan Czibesz 108 Sharadin |
| Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 |
-- | Gender and Sexual Minorities Conference MSU |
| Oct. 1 | 11 a.m. | CEL: Increasing the Quality of Peer Feedback 6 Rohrbach |
Athletics
| Date | Time | Event |
| Sept. 23 | 7 p.m. | #17 Women's Soccer vs. #4 West Chester Keystone Field (Video | Stats) |
| Sept. 26 | Noon | #3 Football vs. Shepherd Andre Reed Stadium (Video | Audio | Stats | Tickets) |
| Sept. 26 | 5 p.m. | #2 Field Hockey vs. American International Andre Reed Stadium (Video | Stats) |
Accommodations
Persons with a disability, and who require accommodation, should notify the Disability Services Office two weeks prior to the event at 610-683-4108 or email DSO@kutztown.edu, TDD number: 610-683-4499, in order to discuss accommodations. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations. Please note: Kutztown University does not provide wheelchairs or other mobility devices.
Non-Discrimination Statement
Kutztown University does not discriminate in employment or educational opportunities on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. To discuss a complaint of discrimination, please contact the Office of Compliance, Old Main A-Wing, Room 02, by phone at 610-683-4700 or by email at compliance@kutztown.edu. Pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Kutztown University does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates, including admissions and employment. Any inquiries regarding the application of Title IX at Kutztown University may be made to Bradley Davis, the university’s Title IX coordinator, located in Old Main A-Wing, Room 01, by phone at 610-683-4782 or by email at titleix@kutztown.edu. You may also contact the Office for Civil Rights located in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Bldg., 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20202-1100, by phone at 800-421-3481 (TDD: 800-877-8339), by fax at 202-453-6012, or by email at OCR@ed.gov.