For Students

How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students
A guide from Rackham Graduate School of University of Michigan on setting up a successful relationship with your mentor.

Getting the Mentoring You Need
From the website of UC Berkeley’s Graduate Division, this page outlines some best practices and helpful steps aimed at enhancing mentoring relationships.

For Faculty

Rethinking Mentoring
From UC Davis, this article provides an overview of mentoring, mentoring structures, benefits, and how to set up a successful relationship.

How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty
A guide from Rackham Graduate School of University of Michigan on setting up a successful relationship with your mentee.

Nature’s Guide for Mentors
This article outlines the qualities of good mentors and tips for creating a successful relationship with your mentee.

Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students.

Tips for Effective Conversations with Trainees
Discusses best practices for communication with mentees.

Additional Resources and Readings

The Mentoring and Evaluation of Graduate Academic Progress (MEGAP)
Report to the UCLA Graduate Council and UCLA Graduate Division, recommendations seek to foster greater graduate student success by creating formal resources on mentoring for faculty and students; incentivizing mentoring at the department/program level, where the potential benefits reaped from effective mentoring will have the greatest structural impact; and mandating annual opportunities for students to receive, and offer, thoughtful and comprehensive feedback on their academic progress toward the Ph.D. degree.

How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
Crossroads, the student magazine produced by this organization, published this article that “attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful …The intent is not to provide prescriptive advice — no formulas for finishing a thesis or twelve-step programs for becoming a better advisor are given — but to raise awareness on both sides of the advisor-student relationship as to what the expectations are and should be for this relationship, what a graduate student should expect to accomplish, common problems, and where to go if the advisor is not forthcoming.”

Tools and Materials for Mentors and Mentees: UCLA BOX

You can find a comprehensive list of additional resources on the CIMER website.