Mentoring Graduate Students
Effective mentoring is essential to graduate student success, academic progress and professional development. The Graduate School supports faculty and staff in developing evidence-based mentoring practices through training, practical resources and a community of engaged mentors.
Ways to Get Started
Join the Mentoring Community
The Graduate Inclusive Mentoring Community (GIMC) seeks to build educational opportunities and community support for those who strive to excel at mentoring graduate students. Learn about GIMC.
Earn a Microcredential
Complete a structured professional development pathway and demonstrate your mentoring growth. Learn about the Microcredential
Develop Your Mentoring Skills
Attend workshops and training to strengthen your mentoring practices. Explore Training.
Mentoring Resources
This document is a supplemental strategy created to support the graduate student advisees’ short and long-term goals, while also giving advisors tools to clarify expectations.
This diagram depicts how the Advising Plan, then Individual Development Plan (IDP), and annual Progress Reports all work together to support your students.
How to Mentor Graduate Students
A detailed guide to effective mentoring: reasons for mentoring, general guidelines, advice on initial meetings, how graduate programs can encourage mentoring and much more.
A Mentoring Guidebook for Faculty
Written by the Graduate Student Senate of Case Western Reserve University, this guidebook includes checklists and worksheets for faculty adviser-advisee first meetings and setting expectations, and addresses advising and mentoring within diverse communities.
Graduate Advising and Mentoring: Worst Practices
Created by the Dignity Project at the University of Minnesota which supports responsible conduct in graduate and professional education.
Resources for Culturally Aware Mentoring
Created by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), includes a variery of resources to learn more about culturally aware mentoring.
Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
The focus of CIMER is on the development, implementation, and evaluation of mentor and mentee training using theoretically grounded, evidence-based, and culturally-responsive training interventions and investigations.