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How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students at a Diverse University
Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2014
The recommendations in this guide draw on research, surveys, successful practices based in experience, and conversations with students and faculty. In the following pages we’ve included
suggestions for further reading, campus resources, and examples of practices that others have found useful for cultivating a positive mentee-mentor relationship.
How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty in a Diverse University
Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2014
Faculty mentors play a crucial role in the success of graduate students; at the Graduate School we hear this message frequently from students. While styles of advising and mentoring vary across the disciplines, the fundamentals apply throughout graduate education.
This website contains many strategies on motivating and engaging your students, strategies to promote student success, and the opportunity to subscribe to the On Course electronic newsletter.
Principles of Good Practice: Supporting Early-Career Faculty
Sorcinelli, M.D.
2000
AAHE
The "Heeding New Voices" study, a year-long series of structured interviews with new faculty and graduate students aspiring to be faculty members around the country, sought both to give voice to those who are just beginning their academic careers and to provide guidance for the senior faculty, chairs, deans, and others in higher education responsible for shaping the professoriate of the future.
The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal from Pennsylvania State University is a free electronic publication about academic advising in higher education. The publication's goal is to provide a mechanism for the rapid dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing discourse about advising issues.
CGS is the leading source of information, data analysis, and trends in graduate education. Our benchmarking data help member institutions to assess performance in key areas, make informed decisions, and develop plans that are suited to their goals.
CGS Best Practice initiatives address common challenges in graduate education by supporting institutional innovations and sharing effective practices with the graduate community. Our programs have provided millions of dollars of support for improvement and innovation projects at member institutions.
As the national voice for graduate education, CGS serves as a resource on issues regarding graduate education, research, and scholarship. CGS collaborates with other national stakeholders to advance the graduate education community in the policy and advocacy arenas.
CGS is an authority on global trends in graduate education and a leader in the international graduate community. Our resources and meetings on global issues help members internationalize their campuses, develop sustainable collaborations, and prepare their students for a global future.