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Graduate Student Mentoring
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https://gradschool.utexas.edu/navigating/mentoring
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https://gradschool.utexas.edu/admissions
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Graduate Student Mentoring

Source: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/navigating/mentoring Parent: https://gradschool.utexas.edu/admissions

Questions?

Contact the committee at gradmentoring@austin.utexas.edu.

The Graduate Student Mentoring Committee began working in the spring of 2019 to identify mentoring best practices and develop resources for faculty members, graduate students, and graduate programs.

Mentoring Graduate Students: A Faculty Guide is a product of that work. It provides a working definition of mentoring, a list of recommended best practices, and suggestions to help programs begin conversations about their cultures of mentoring.

In February 2023, the Graduate Student Mentoring Course was launched in Canvas. The self-paced online course is designed to help all UT graduate students build strong mentoring relationships and develop networks of mentors on campus. The course is the product of several years of work by the Graduate Student Mentoring Committee with support from the Graduate School, the Center for Teaching and Learning and Texas Career Engagement. The modules for the course can be taken individually or together. In total, the course takes a few hours to complete, though it is a resource for graduate students to access throughout their time at UT.

Mentoring Graduate Students: A Faculty Guide

The Graduate Student Mentoring Committee developed this guide to share mentoring best practices and recommendations to help programs formalize mentoring initiatives that enhance graduate student success.

Graduate Student Mentoring Course

This course in Canvas includes modules covering numerous aspects of the graduate student experience, as well as testimonials from students and links to helpful resources.

Faculty Graduate Student Mentoring Course

This Canvas course includes resources for faculty members, graduate students and graduate programs. It provides information on mentoring, a list of recommended best practices and suggestions to help faculty begin meaningful and productive conversations about mentoring.

Mentoring Resources

UT Examples

Alper Lab Annual Self Evaluation

Mentoring Best Practices, English Department

Lab Culture & Mentoring Survey

Mentor and Mentee Expectations, PhD Program in Psychology

Assessments & Expectations

Academic Career Readiness Assessment

Expectations in Supervision

Mentoring Organizations

Científico Latino

National Research Mentoring Network

Career Mentorship

ImaginePhD

Individual Development Plans

Doctoral Student Career Planning, Modern Language Association

Ethics, Wellness & Mental Health

Caring is a Skill We Need Right Now

Adages for Ethical Graduate Mentoring in the Twenty-first Century

Mental Health, Bullying, Career Uncertainty

Just a Minute: Ph.D. Students Voice Concerns About Mentoring

Trusting Vulnerability

External Resources

Mentoring Toolkit, Duke University

Faculty Mentoring Toolkit, Michigan State University

Mentoring Guide for Students, University of Michigan

The Trainee Podcast - Mentor-Mentee Relationship Topics

What it's like being a first-generation PhD candidate

Making Invisible Work in STEM more visible

Moving it Forward