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MENTORING
Acknowledging the many forms of mentorship that take place on our campus—from faculty mentorship of graduate and undergraduate students, to graduate and undergraduate student peer-mentorship, to faculty mentoring other faculty who are new to the institution—these resources aim to support both mentors and mentees in developing effective, equitable, and learning-focused mentorship relationships.
MENTORING IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS
Going well beyond the faculty advisor role, effective mentorship plays an integral part in the success of graduate students, enriches the broader scholarly community, and can support equity and diversity within disciplinary communities. These resources aim to support both mentors and mentees in cultivating productive and rewarding mentorship relationships that effectively address the mentee's goals for scholarly and professional development.
After reviewing current research on mentorship of graduate students, CITL has compiled a toolkit of resources that can guide faculty mentors in developing and sustaining effective relationships with their mentees.
Faculty Toolkit for Mentoring Graduate Students
Quick Guide to Mentoring Graduate Students
Hot Tips for Meeting with Graduate Students
CITL’s toolkit of resources for mentees aims to support graduate students in developing and sustaining effective relationships with their mentors.
Graduate Student Guide to Mentorship Relationships
Graduate Student Mentorship Needs Checklist
Hot Tips for Meeting with Faculty Mentors
This guide supports Instructors to work effectively with graduate student Teaching Assistants (TAs) to promote alignment across the teaching team, ensure student learning and success in the course, and provide graduate students with key mentorship in their own professional development.
An Individual Development Plan (IDP) is an individualized planning tool used to identify and track long- and short-term academic and professional development goals, and can be a useful communication tool between mentees and their mentors. There are two widely used free online IDP tools: MyIDP (for those working in STEM fields) and ImaginePhD (for those working in the humanities and social sciences).
Mentors and mentees may find it useful to collaboratively develop a practical mentorship agreement that establishes each person’s responsibilities and expectations as they relate to communication, goals, and meeting practices. Mentorship agreements can provide the structure and set of topics for a mutual discussion about aligning expectations.
This guide from the University of Michigan provides practical guidelines and tips for developing effective and professional mentorship relationships with graduate students, and offers perspectives on how to develop a departmental culture of mentorship and how to account for diversity and equity in mentor-mentee relationships.
Founded in recent scholarship, this article provides both an overview of the current conversation and specific strategies that faculty can adopt in order to address priority areas in the professional development of first-generation and graduate students of color.
PEER MENTORSHIP
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