Resources for Faculty Advising and Mentoring

First-Year Advising Checklist

• Short description of faculty responsibilities as a first-year advisor.

PhD Program Manual: Student Advising/Mentoring

• General description of overall advising and mentoring activities.

PhD Program Manual: Guidelines for Program Components

• Program of Study documents: POS Proposal for those entering prior to 2005.
  Short POS statement for those entering 2005 and beyond.
• General Exam: Preparation, Developing Questions, and Evaluating
  Students entering prior to 2005
  Students entering 2005 and beyond: Qualifying Scholarly Paper
• Dissertation: Research, Writing, and Oral Defense

Mentoring Professional Development

• Program Manual section with UW-wide resources for teaching, research, writing, and career information.
• Graduate School Mentoring Resources for Faculty and Students
  
  Includes a Faculty Mentoring Guide in pdf format.
• Preparing Fugure Faculty Program
  
  The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program is a national movement to transform the way aspiring faculty members are prepared for their careers. PFF programs provide doctoral students, as well as some master’s and postdoctoral students, with opportunities to observe and experience faculty responsibilities at a variety of academic institutions with varying missions, diverse student bodies, and different expectations for faculty.
  
  Includes an extensive list of links to valuable resources for mentoring.

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