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Choosing a Graduate Advisor - Beginning graduate students must make what may well be the most important choice of their careers, [choosing an] advisor and research topic, at a time when they are most lacking the knowledge to choose well.
Articles: Advising Graduate Students: Understanding the Influence of Family on Graduate Education - Mentorship and academic advising research frequently focuses on the needs of undergraduate students. There is, however, a need to assess the issues regarding graduate student mentorship. Master's and doctoral student advisers play a key role in laying a solid foundation for future careers, and these advisers must consider a wide range of issues affecting graduate students. While personal characteristics, academic history, financial support, and area of study are important considerations, there is one influence that may have a significant relationship to success in graduate school: family.
Choosing an Advisor in Graduate School - Grad school success hinges on finding your perfect match
Guide to Mentors & Advisors - Throughout your graduate school years, you've spent countless hours honing your research and methodological skills, learning how to think critically, and becoming socialized into your professional role. Think about it: are you really prepared for that faculty position? Most new faculty lament that they are unprepared for a critical aspect of their job: mentoring and supervising students.
The Importance of Choosing the Right Thesis Advisor in Grad School - Pursuit of a graduate degree in engineering or computer science is a logical step toward success in an advanced technology-based career. Students who choose this route, however, should be careful to focus their study on the specific technologies applicable to their career path of choice.
Grad Student's Guide to Mentors & Advisors - Faculty play an enormous role in your graduate education. Not just during class, but outside of class too. Your relationship with your advisor is essential to successfully completing your graduate program and your dissertation.
Mentoring - Several faculty members may play a formal role in advising an individual graduate student. The director of the thesis or dissertation is one key person who has specific duties including offering timely feedback to students in response to verbal questions or written projects such as drafts of theses or dissertations. Another key person is the faculty advisor (also called a Director of Graduate Studies), a faculty member who is knowledgeable about the rules and procedures applicable to degree programs. The advisor typically provides information about programs of study and their requirements, departmental or other sources of employment (as AIs or RAs), and works with the school and the Graduate School to ensure that all degree requirements are met.
How to Get the Mentoring You Want - A detailed guide to establishing mentoring relationships. A great document to read for both students and advisors.
Deprogramming From the Academic Cult - One of the recurring themes from my mail has been about "deprogramming" from the cult that academic research careers are superior to others. Graduate students spend years in a culture that views academic careers as the crème de la crème (this is especially true at elite institutions), and pretty soon they begin to believe it. Not pursuing an academic career can be seen as settling for second best, if not downright failure.
Choosing an Advisor / Mentor - Your advisor is the person who will be with you throughout your graduate school career and will probably play a major role in where you go afterwards, using their contacts and writing letters of recommendation. Choosing an advisor/mentor that is well respected in their field and is willing to put time into helping you develop your skills throughout your time at grad school is important.
Advising in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Over the last few years, the Graduate Student Council has reviewed the existing system(s) of advising in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in order to gain a better understanding of the difficulties which graduate students face while completing their degree programs. In the past months, advising and related issues have been at the forefront of discussions within the Graduate Student Council, student-faculty discussions organized by Dudley House Master Professor Everett Mendelsohn, and between the Graduate Student Council and the GSAS Deans. These conversations examined many aspects of the advisor-student relationship, including the role of the advisor and how advising relates to student evaluation.
Writing Centers and Academic Advising - In this article, we examine the role academic advising plays within colleges and universities and we hope to start a dialogue about the connections we see between academic advising, writing instruction in academic discourse, and the mentoring roles faculty and students can play within university departments.
How to Be a Good Graduate Student - This paper attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to get as much out of the process as possible, and for advisors who wish to help their students be successful
Choosing a Committee/Advisor - These online resources and articles offer advice about how to choose a committee/advisor, what questions to ask, how to set expectations and resolve common problems, and more.
Grad Student's Guide to Mentors & Advisors - Your relationship with your advisor is important to your success in graduate school and beyond.
Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring - Upon admission to the School of Architecture, every student is assigned a faculty mentor. In addition, the academic advisor is available to all students in the college. Although many of their functions are similar, academic advisors and mentors have different strengths and areas of expertise from which students can draw to meet their changing needs.
An Insider's Guide to Choosing a Graduate Adviser and Research Projects in Laboratory Sciences - Where can new and prospective graduate students obtain candid advice to enhance success in graduate school? Not from most college science teaching journals which have almost exclusively published advice for professors regarding teaching undergraduates.
The Mentor - This is The Mentor, a free electronic publication about academic advising in higher education. The goal of this journal (available only on the Web) is to provide a mechanism for the rapid dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing discourse about advising issues. Toward this goal, articles in the journal are published continuously in a current issue in progress.
A Publication of the LAS Advising Center - This College Academic/Career Roadmap is a checklist which provides students with various ways they can enhance their university experience and expand their career and academic opportunities throughout their college years. Additionally, advisors can use it as a stimulus for discussion in working with their students.
Good Grad: Advice for Advisors - How to Be a Good Graduate Student
Choosing an Advisor and Advisor Relationships - A forum for discussions about choosing an advisor and relationships between advisors and graduate students.
