Career: How to Mentor Graduate Students Roundtable

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Faculty mentorship plays a crucial role in the education and professional development of graduate students. A healthy relationship between faculty advisor/mentor and graduate student is more involved than most other relationships in the academy, and sometimes those who find themselves in the position of a mentor may not have had good models to follow from their previous experience as a mentee. This roundtable raises a discussion about the best approaches to mentoring and training graduate students. Relevant topics of discussion may include: how to establish and maintain effective communication; how to build reciprocal commitment between the two parties; how to facilitate a graduate student’s professional development; how to model professional excellence in research and teaching; and how to support a graduate student’s mental health and personal wellbeing.

Section

• Professional Development / Professional Development

Chair

• Kellee J. Kirkpatrick, Idaho State University

Participants

• J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron

• Eyal Lewin, Ariel University

• Dick O Uduma, Abia State University