Aligning Expectations with Graduate Student Mentees

This interactive session introduces strategies for aligning faculty mentor and graduate student mentee expectations. Through discussion, review of case examples, and sample written expectations documents, participants will reflect upon the importance of establishing mentor-mentee expectations to their mentoring philosophies and in their mentoring relationships with graduate student mentees.

The workshop is intended for faculty who mentor graduate students. Content is adapted from TEAM ADVANCE’s Faculty Mentor Training and CIMER’s Entering Mentoring. The ongoing series is a collaboration between The Graduate School, Center for Faculty Excellence, TEAM ADVANCE, and the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (School of Medicine).

Learning Objectives: Become familiar with a strategy, using a written document, to effectively establish and communicate mutually beneficial expectations for the mentoring relationship.