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Tips on Being Mentored
Being Mentored in Scholarship and Creative Activity
- Identify a director of the thesis or dissertation who is known to be an effective mentor and compatible with your goals
- Establish whether the mentor has the time, the funding, and the enthusiasm to support your scholarship and creative activity
- Establish a mutually agreeable timeline to carry your research to completion
- Seek direction through regular communication with your advisor
- Respect the multiple roles and time constraints of your mentor by using meetings effectively
- Maintain communication with your committee through periods of discouragement or lack of progress
Being Mentored in Career Development
- Seek out a team of outstanding mentors in your areas of teaching, research, and service
- Network with mentor(s) and professional colleagues at professional meetings
- Keep your mentor apprised of your achievements
- Meet with your mentor to address issues in your professional development
- Seek opportunities to assist the mentor in grant writing and in scholarly and creative activities
Being Mentored in Intellectual Development
- Collaborate with your mentor to establish ground rules for effective communication
- Establish regular meeting times and keep to them
- Be receptive to tips about effective communication in the professional setting of your discipline
- Seek out and appreciate difference
- Initiate face-to-face communication where electronic communication may be ineffective or misunderstood
Above information on mentoring from Arizona State University
Links for more information on mentoring
- Information for faculty mentors
- Mentoring and Professional Growth
- University of Iowa Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award for UI Graduate Faculty
- Resources for Graduate Students, Chris M. Golde, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching