Recommendation Letter Tips

Ask three former professors or instructors who can describe your qualities as a student and the likelihood of your succeeding in graduate study to submit letters of recommendation. You may provide these individuals with your Goal Statement, so that they can speak to your specific proposed individualized program of study. If you have been out of college for some time and are no longer in contact with your college professors, you can consider asking  your employers or others who can speak to your work ethic.

Leaving a Legacy

Scholars learn the importance of giving back to their peers and the KSU community, hold leadership and mentorship roles, and celebrate all they have learned and accomplished.

  • Lab Leaders provide peer-to-peer mentorship and plan and execute educational and social programming
  • Connections to various on-campus leadership roles such as Peer Success Mentors and Kupita Transiciones (K/T) Mentors

Black Joy Unlocked event with Marquis Davis and Janice Johnson

Music can take you back. Music decorates your mind. One second, you’re walking to class, and the next, your playlist serves up a song and instantly you’re in your hometown with your friends, laughing it up on a Friday night.  On Feb. 28, attendees gathered in the Pepsi Leadership Center to explore the role of music in Black culture and its ability to provoke happiness at the “Empowerment Through the Arts: Black Joy Unlocked” event to create a safe, welcoming community among diverse students at Kent State University.The event was led by Marquis Davis, director of academic diversity outreac...

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