Mentoring
Mentoring - of colleagues, graduate and undergraduate students - is one of the central
activities of college faculty. In mentoring our colleagues, especially early-career
faculty, we help them navigate the complexities of their teaching, scholarship, and
service, even as we become effective sounding boards for various projects (grants, scholarly
articles, teaching dilemmas, etc.). Faculty must also remember their responsibilities
to graduate students to serve as mentors and guides for moving through graduate school
and onto jobs both in and outside the academy. As the links below suggest, faculty should
also work hard to mentor undergraduates by including them in important research projects,
thus fostering the atmosphere of critical inquiry that college faculty value so highly.
Mentoring Faculty Colleagues
- Faculty
Mentoring Program (UCSD)
- A discussion of the various responsibilities of department chairs, faculty mentors,
and new faculty, as well as a list of "typical issues" that arise in these
relationships.
- Mentoring
Programs for New Faculty (JVME)
- Mentoring
Junior Faculty (Marjorie Olmstead, Physics)
- A useful guide to help other departments/professionals develop mentoring strategies.
Mentoring Graduate Students
- Guidelines
for Good Practice in Graduate Education (Washington)
- How
to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty (Michigan)
- A 49 page guide for faculty available in PDF.
- Mentoring
Graduate Students (Chronicle)
- Principles and Good
Practices Concerning Research Mentoring (Iowa)
Mentoring Undergraduate Students
- Best
Practices in Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers (Stanford)
- This site offers advice to both mentors and students and includes thoughts on how
to "establish positive working agreements."
- Undergraduate Mentoring
in Environmental Biology (NSF)
Other Resources
- Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring
Redirected and Renewed (G. Luna & D. Cullen)
- Faculty
Mentoring Program @ Stanford
- Improving the Quality
of Mentoring (NAPS)
- Mentoring: General
Resources (Michigan)
- Mentoring
Minority Science Students (American Indian Graduate Center)
- Re-envisioning
the Ph.D. (Washington)
