Mentoring has always been a valuable part of life for Christa Porter, Ph.D., associate dean for the Graduate College. “I have always had some pretty amazing mentors, specifically black women, who are my senior,” Porter said. “But 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.” For Porter, mentoring is both a means of support in academic life and a mechanism for various opportunities. “Mentoring 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 doesn’t 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.