Rackham’s Faculty Committee on Mentoring (MORE)

Workshops

Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start

This workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by guiding them in explicitly defining and documenting shared expectations. In the first half of the workshop, mentors and mentees work independently in separate workshop sessions to identify their objectives and work styles and to consider strategies for dealing with possible mentoring challenges. In the second half of the workshop, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 90 percent of both faculty and student workshop participants find this workshop to be informative and helpful.

Mentoring Workshop for New Faculty

Working with graduate students can be one of the most satisfying aspects of being at a research university. In this workshop, new faculty are introduced to research on best practices in mentoring and to tools that can facilitate mentoring relationships. We invite new faculty to learn from experienced colleagues about effective mentoring, understand how a written mentoring plan can help create a two-way conversation between mentor and mentee, and exchange ideas about managing challenging mentoring situations.

Mentoring Across Difference 2.0

This workshop is intended to invite deeper reflection about the issues, concerns, and situations involved when mentoring students from non-traditional backgrounds. Faculty are invited to consider specific actions to take in research and learning spaces that address issues and concerns pertaining to mentoring across difference. The workshop encourages and supports faculty exploring approaches and solutions that work best for them and their students in particular research laboratories, research teams, and in the research projects students are pursuing under a mentor’s guidance.

Additional Mentoring Resources

The following links have been collected to help support the academic success of graduate students throughout the University of Michigan. Please email your link suggestions to us.

University Career Alumni Network (UCAN)

Through its University Career Alumni Network, the Alumni Association strives to connect current students and members of the Alumni Association with mentors who are able to provide career coaching on topics ranging from information about their occupation to relocating to a new city. Alumni mentors represent all job stages—from early career to experienced professionals.

Council of Graduate Schools Resources on Culturally Aware Mentoring

Explore a curated collection of books, articles, websites, videos, and podcasts addressing the value of different student experiences in mentoring relationships.

National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)

NRMN’s mission is to provide researchers across all career stages in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences with the evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity and culture.