Mentoring References and Resources

Mentoring is a fundamental part of the graduate student experience at UC Santa Barbara. We hope the resources, best practices, and opportunities shared on this page will provide a good basis for discussion about graduate student mentoring for department faculty, staff, and students. 

• Graduate Council Practices for Faculty Mentoring of Graduate Students
  The Graduate Council offers this set of priorities and best practices for mentoring of graduate students for the consideration of all faculty, staff, and graduate students. These guidelines are aspirational. They are intended to serve as starting points for discussion as individual departments and programs articulate shared expectations for mentoring appropriate to their disciplines. Importantly, different campus departments and programs will have different conventions regarding who has the responsibility for conveying different types of information (for example, general degree requirements). Through discussion, these responsibilities should be clarified in individual department or program handbooks.
   
• University of California Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA)
  Statement of Faculty Responsibility with Regard to Graduate Students