Mentor Graduate Students

Mentors are guides. They lead us along the journey of our lives. We trust them because they have been there before. They embody our hopes, cast light on the way ahead, interpret arcane signs, warn us of lurking dangers, and point out unexpected delights along the way.

The quality of the graduate student experience is important to the IU Graduate School Indianapolis and mentors play a crucial role in the personal and academic success of our students.

While good advising assists graduate students in learning about the academic discipline and skills needed to research or practice in a targeted area or profession, a mentor is a trusted guide who helps a graduate student through the mental, personal, and cultural transitions of the discipline and higher education.

Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP)

PFFP offers advanced graduate students an opportunity to be paired with faculty members and working professionals to gain in-depth, first-hand knowledge about specific career paths.

IU Indianapolis Graduate Mentoring Center

The Graduate Mentoring Center provides resources and opportunities for faculty and staff to strengthen their skills in mentoring graduate and professional students.

If you are wondering how you will keep up with everything, how to organize your schedule, and how to make time for yourself, we encourage you to take advantage of IU’s membership with the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. To do so, register with the center under the Institutional Sub-Account Membership. Once you do so, you will have access to presentations, video recordings, and programs to use throughout the year. Once you have registered, check out the following presentation first: Every Semester Needs a Plan.

The IU Indianapolis National Mentoring Symposium is a one-day national conference for students who work as peer mentors in various capacities. This event allows for peer mentoring programs from around the nation to come together to engage in personal and professional development.

The Advancing Women Mentoring Program is designed to empower individuals to work toward academic, personal, and professional success by engaging participants in authentic mentoring partnerships. Students have the opportunity to be mentored throughout the academic year by IU Indianapolis faculty and staff. This program is open to all students, faculty, and staff with an interest in this subject.

The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is a nationwide consortium of biomedical professionals and institutions collaborating to provide all trainees across the biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming.

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at the Indiana University School of Medicine has developed a comprehensive resource for mentoring on their website. You will find resources on models and benefits of monitoring, a toolkit, and forms to use.

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Guidelines for Graduate Student Mentoring and Advising. These are recommendations from Purdue University that schools at IU Indianapolis may find useful for mentors and new faculty.

Mentor Graduate Students

Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals (PFFP)

IU Indianapolis Graduate Mentoring Center

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

National Mentoring Symposium

Advancing Women Mentoring Program

National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)

School of Medicine Mentoring Website

Mentoring Literature

Other Resources

Indiana University Graduate School Indianapolis resources and social media channels