Theses & Dissertation
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS
College of Sciences and Humanities forms, including the Style Guide, can be found on this page. Review this before beginning your thesis or dissertation. Dr. Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities, is the person who should be listed on the signature pages as Dean.
THESIS
- Complete and submit the Notification of Approved Thesis Topic and Prospectus at least one semester before your Graduation Application.
- Contact Graduate Coordinator or Graduate Secretary for Defense Announcement
- Please post the announcement of your defense at least 10 days before your defense date.
- Fill out a Report of Thesis Final Examination before defending your Thesis. Note: Fill out electronically, print, and bring it to your defense to be signed by your committee.
- Style Guide and Instruction for Typing Thesis and Dissertations.
DISSERTATION
Once you have passed your candidacy exam, you can finally start working on your dissertation!
- Oral Defense Timeline (contact Graduate Coordinator or Graduate Secretary)
- Complete and submit the Notification of Approved Dissertation Topic and Prospectus at least one semester before your Graduation Application.
- Defense Announcement
- Please post the announcement of your defense at least 10 days before your defense date.
- Request a Graduate Faculty Representative for your defense committee.
- Fill out a Report of Dissertation Final Examination before defending your Dissertation. Note: Fill out electronically, print, and bring it to your defense to be signed by your committee.
- Style Guide and Instruction for Typing Thesis and Dissertations.
- Final Examination guidelines
SIGNATURE PAGES
Each degree candidate must provide one signed PDF version to the S & H Office of Graduate Affairs through email along with the Report of Final Examination. (see Appendix E for the dissertation and Appendix F for the thesis PDF versions of the signature page). This PDF version should be signed with either an electronic signature or script font name (the office of Graduate Affairs will take care of the Dean’s signature) and submitted to the Office of Graduate Affairs prior to electronic submission of the dissertation or thesis. With respect to margins, the top margin must be 2 inches, the left margin must be 1.5 inches, and the right margin and bottom margin should be 1 inch. The Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities signature will be added after the final version of the dissertation or thesis has been submitted and approved in OhioLink.
The ETD dissertation or thesis document that is uploaded into OhioLink includes a signature page. However, to protect signatures, this version of the signature page should only have typed names on the signature lines, rather than signatures (see Appendix G for the dissertation and Appendix H for the thesis electronic versions of the signature pages). The same margins outlined above apply. The Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities signature will be provided after the final version of the dissertation or thesis has been submitted and approved in OhioLink.
SUBMISSION
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Information
- How to electronically submit the dissertation/thesis
- If you already have your dissertation in .pdf form, skip to the guidelines link and make sure you have followed all the steps.
- Uploading directions begin at #8 on the guidelines page
- Login information is included in the Submitter User Manual. If you experience technical difficulties, please contact Cindy Kristof 330-672-1641 at ckristof@kent.edu.