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Graduate Advising & Mentoring: Faculty and Staff Guide

This guide provides quick access to core concepts, best practices, and resources to help you support graduate students effectively as an advisor or mentor. Choose a topic below to get started.

Understanding Advising and Mentoring

Advising & Mentoring Overview

What they are, how they differ, and how they work together.

Understanding Graduate Mentoring

What mentoring involves and how mentors support students.

Best Practices

Graduate Advising Best Practices

Effective strategies for advising graduate students.

Graduate Mentoring Best Practices

Evidence-based approaches for strong mentoring.

Faculty & Staff Resources

Graduate Advising Resources for Faculty & Staff

Tools, templates, policies, and campus supports for advising.

Graduate Mentoring Resources for Faculty & Staff

Mentoring tools, frameworks, and campus supports.