Mentoring has always been a valuable part of life for Christa Porter, Ph.D., associate dean for the Graduate College. āI have always had some pretty amazing mentors, specifically black women, who are my senior,ā Porter said. āBut I also have a group of sister scholars, who I have been peer mentoring with and alongside since I was a doctoral student, and then I've also picked up some other peer mentors along the way.ā For Porter, mentoring is both a means of support in academic life and a mechanism for various opportunities. āMentoring has meant folks opening door...
Registration Steps
View the schedule of classes and steps for registration, including meeting with your advisor.
Resolving a Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Citation
To qualify for federal student aid, federal regulations require you to achieve reasonable Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) toward your degree or certificate program.
SAP is determined based on GPA, percent completion and maximum timeframe. While SAP doesnāt prevent enrollment at Kent State, it does impact the awarding of federal financial aid.
Analytical Instrumentation Facility
The Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) located in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry performs pilot or short-term industrial research projects using a wide range of state-of-the-art analytical instruments.
Over the past twenty years the AIF has provided a cost-effective means for solving analytical problems faced by the local industrial community. Projects involving separations and surface chemistry, materials science, and coatings are major emphases, but the AIF can also serve a variety of other areas with its broad range of instrumentation.
After decades as a pastor, David Zachrich had a sudden and dramatic reevaluation of his life. A life-threatening heart attack 15 years ago forced him to step back and reconsider his path. Zachrichās cardiologist challenged him to find something to do that he enjoyed. Zachrich, who holds a doctor of ministry degree in communication studies, immediately thought of teaching, something he very much wanted to do as a second career. The last nine years Zachrich has been a part-time faculty member in the School of Communications Studies at Kent State Univeristy where he strives to create pe...
Kent Campus
āThe Rockā Rocks On! Painting āThe Rockā is one of Kent Stateās earliestāand most lastingācampus traditions. Itās likely that the large boulder received its first coat of paint in 1922, the year that fraternities and sororities were first established at Kent State. And itās been a canvas for expression ever since. For many years, The Rock rested on the ādevil stripā between the sidewalk and Main Street. To accommodate the widening of the street in September 1976, The Rock was moved further back onto the Front Campus, where it remains today. In celebration of The Rockās 100+ ann...