Mentoring Graduate Students
Mentoring the next generation of researchers is a shared professional responsibility of all faculty members, and a good mentoring relationship is crucial to the success of all graduate students. (See also, special considerations for mentoring postdocs.)
All basic science graduate programs have adopted a unified policy:
Faculty will participate in at least one mentorship development activity of their choosing each year they have a student in their lab.
In addition to the resources in the menu at right, the following external links may be helpful to you.
- Faculty Mentoring Toolkit (published by the Chancellor's Council on Faculty Life and the UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program)
- Supporting students with disabilities — UCSF Faculty Training Series, an 8-part guide for faculty who work with students with disabilities, produced by UCSF Medical Student Disability Services and UCSF Student Disability Services in partnership with colleagues from around the country
- Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (free publication from the National Academy of Sciences)
