Mentoring Your Way
The Office of Graduate Studies recognizes that mentorship is crucial to a graduate student’s life, well-being, and overall success. Mentoring Your Way is our multi-pronged initiative to support expanded opportunities and stronger practices related to graduate student mentoring.
Mentoring Your Way consists of three main parts: faculty awareness and training, resources for mentors and mentees, and mentorship programs.
Faculty Awareness and Training
The Office of Graduate Studies coordinates with the Office of the Provost to encourage A&S graduate faculty to participate in specialized mentor training through the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER).
Mentoring Resources
We offer a repository of resources where faculty and graduate students can go to get mentorship support, learn best practices, and see examples from peer institutions. This repository includes OGS Mentoring Agreements, designed to help mentors and mentees align expectations.
Mentorship Programs
The OGS Transdisciplinary Mentoring Community (TMC) pairs faculty mentors with small teams of graduate students across disciplines to engage in conversations and accelerate connections beyond one’s home department throughout the academic year.
Grad Peer Circles offers a variety of ways for graduate students to connect with peer mentors, both in their home department and outside of it, encouraging community building and the cultivation of support networks.
