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6 Recommendation: Improving the Quality of Mentoring
Pages 65-68

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From page 65...
... According to a report by the Council of Graduate Schools, "Universities, graduate schools, and departments all can play prominent parts in fostering mentorship among faculty members." Institutions have a large stake in promoting effective mentoring at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and junior-faculty levels. As we have suggested in this guide, improved mentoring is likely to enhance students' educational experience, morale, career planning and placement, and professional competence.
From page 66...
... Few institutions have developed mechanisms for ap praising mentoring performance. Because techniques of mentoring vary widely among individuals (including the amount of time spent with students, the degree of intervention in student choices, how meetings with students are structured, and the extent of joint activities)
From page 67...
... Periodic seminars can be held where senior faculty describe good mentoring and junior faculty ask questions; this guide can be used as a resource. > Provide discipline-oriented career counselors who can offer students and advisers up-to-date information on the full range of educational and career opportunities for scientists and engineers, including industrial internships, combined degrees, part-time and summer placements, and classes outside their discipline.
From page 68...
... The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have recently instituted such awards on the national level. Recognition at the institutional level is a key first step.


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