Kent State will pay a former vice president $154,000 in a settlement over dismissal

Image of the first page of Karen Clarke’s settlement agreement with Kent State

Kent State will pay a former vice president $154,000 in a settlement over dismissal

- Gabriella Hagey

Kent State reached a settlement agreement June 28 with Karen Clarke, the former senior vice president for strategic communications and external affairs at the university, over a wrongful termination claim she filed in June 2020. 

Clarke was fired by Todd Diacon, president of the university, on Jan. 9, 2020. In court documents, she claims the university did not have enough cause to terminate her and that it did not follow its own guidelines for termination as laid out in her contract.

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