Yes.

The Graduate School offers mentorship training to all faculty who serve as mentors to graduate students, honors college students and postdoctoral scholars.

The mentorship training is based on the work done by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin. The Entering Mentoring curriculum accelerates the process of becoming an effective mentor by introducing a mentorship framework and providing opportunities to experiment with different methods of mentoring.

The training allows new and experienced mentors to benefit from each other’s perspectives as well as extended time for reflection on fundamental principles of mentoring.

By the conclusion of training, mentors will be able to articulate a personal style and philosophy of mentoring and develop a set of strategies they can use to engage with challenging mentoring situations.