Mentoring Resources
This page is dedicated to compiling mentoring resources for graduate faculty and students. Navigating the academic journey can be both exciting and challenging, and effective mentorship plays a pivotal role in fostering success. Whether you're a seasoned faculty member looking to enhance your mentoring skills or a graduate student seeking guidance on your academic and professional path, our curated collection of resources aims to empower and support you. Discover best practices, gain valuable advice, and explore discipline-specific strategies to create meaningful and impactful mentor-mentee relationships.
Have a resource to suggest? Email Laura Sepanski at Laura_Sepanski@baylor.edu
General Mentoring Resources
How Not to Be a Graduate Student Mentor
Online Courses and Podcasts for Mentors and Mentees
The Podcast: How to be a good Mentor and Mentee
How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students - University of Michigan
Empowering Mentees & Supporting Mentors - Council of Graduate Schools
Other Sources
Black, V. G., & Taylor, Z. W. (2018). Nobody’s talking to the mentees. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 26(5), 606–626. https://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2018.1561027
Lee, A., Dennis, C., & Campbell, P. (2007). Nature’s guide for mentors. Nature, 447(7146), Article 7146. https://doi.org/10.1038/447791a
Phillips, L. L., & Deleon, R. L. (2022). Living Testimonios: How Latinx Graduate Students Persist and Enact Social Justice Within Higher Education. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(1), 197–212. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2022.3140569
Santa-Ramirez, S. (2022). Sink or swim: The mentoring experiences of Latinx PhD students with faculty of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 15(1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000335
Tuma, T. T., Adams, J. D., Hultquist, B. C., & Dolan, E. L. (2021). The Dark Side of Development: A Systems Characterization of the Negative Mentoring Experiences of Doctoral Students. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 20(2), ar16. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.20-10-0231
Graduate Student Mentoring Guide - University of Michigan
A Field Guide to Grad School - Jessica Mccrory Calarco
Tormentor mentors, and how to survive them - Nature
Other Sources
Mitchell, K. E., Al Levin, S., & Krumboltz, J. D. (1999). Planned happenstance: Constructing unexpected career opportunities. Journal of Counseling & Development, 77(2), 115–124. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02431.x
Parker, C. B., Amsden, J. J., Peng, Q., Stoner, B. R., & Glass, J. T. (2015). Achieving Excellence in Graduate Research: A Guide for New Graduate Students. Advanced Science, 2(10), 1500203-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201500203
What Makes a Good Match? Predictors of Quality Mentorship Among Doctoral Students - Life Sciences Education
APA Guidelines on Equitable and Respectful Treatment of Students in Graduate Psychology Programs
Graduate Advising & Mentoring: Worst Practices - University of Minnesota
A Mentoring Guidebook for Faculty - Case Western Reserve University
Advising and Mentoring International Graduate Students - University of Minnesota
Best Practices for Inclusive Mentoring - Utah State University
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision - Nature
Other Sources
Alexander, J.-J., Martinez-Cola, M., Rodriguez, M. M. D., Sinor, J., & Glass, C. M. (2021). Best Practices for Inclusive Mentoring.
Chi-Ning, C., Patterson, C. A., Vanderford, N. L., & Evans, T. M. (2021). Modeling individual development plans, mentoring support, and career preparedness relationships among Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) trainees in the life sciences. F1000Research, 10. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.53705.2
Curtin, N., Malley, J., & Stewart, A. (2016). Mentoring the Next Generation of Faculty: Supporting Academic Career Aspirations Among Doctoral Students. Research in Higher Education, 57(6), 714–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-015-9403-x
Kendall, D. L., & Campanario, S. C. (2016). Honoring God through scientific research: Navigating the ethics of publishing with our students. International Journal of Christianity & Education, 20(2), 133–148. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056997116637878
McCoy, D. L., Winkle-Wagner, R., & Luedke, C. L. (2015). Colorblind mentoring? Exploring white faculty mentoring of students of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 8(4), 225–242. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038676
McGhee Peggs, Heather. (2023). Supervising Conflict: A Guide for Faculty. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487549015/supervising-conflict/
Omar, F., Mahone, J. P., Ngobia, J., & FitzSimons, J. (2016). Building Rapport Between International Graduate Students and Their Faculty Advisors: Cross-Cultural Mentoring Relationships at the University of Guelph. The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 7(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2016.2.8
Santa-Ramirez, S. (2022). Sink or swim: The mentoring experiences of Latinx PhD students with faculty of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 15(1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000335
Thomas, K. M., Willis, L. A., & Davis, J. (2007). Mentoring minority graduate students: Issues and strategies for institutions, faculty, and students. Equal Opportunities International, 26(3), 178–192. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150710735471
Fallon, M. E. (2024). A Graduate Student’s Mentorship Pedagogy for Undergraduate Mentees. Biomedical Engineering Education, 4(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43683-023-00121-7
Branchaw, J. L., Butz, A. R., & Smith, A. R. (2020). Evaluation of the Second Edition of Entering Research: A Customizable Curriculum for Apprentice-Style Undergraduate and Graduate Research Training Programs and Courses. CBE life sciences education, 19(1), ar11. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-04-0073
Byars-Winston, A. M., Womack, V., Butz, A., McGee, R., Quinn, S., Utzerath, E., & Thomas, S. (2018). Pilot study of an intervention to increase cultural awareness in research mentoring: Implications for diversifying the scientific workforce. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2(2), 86-94.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM; Dahlberg ML, Byars-Winston A, editors. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2019 Oct 30. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK552772/. doi: 10.17226/25568
Pfund, C., House, S. C., Asquith, P., Fleming, M. F., Buhr, K. A., Burnham, E. L., Eichenberger Gilmore, J. M., Huskins, W. C., McGee, R., Schurr, K., Shapiro, E. D., Spencer, K. C., & Sorkness, C. A. (2014). Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: A randomized controlled trial. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 89(5), 774-82.
Pfund, C., Sancheznieto, F., Byars-Winston, A., Zárate, S., Black, S., Birren, B., Rogers, J., & Asai, D. J. (2022). Evaluation of a culturally responsive mentorship education program for the advisers of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Program graduate students. CBE Life Sciences Education, 21(3), ar50. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-11-0321
Pfund, C., Spencer, K. C., Asquith, P., House, S. C., Miller, S., & Sorkness, C. A. (2015). Building national capacity for research mentor training: An evidence-based approach to training the trainers. CBE Life Sciences Education , 14(2), ar24. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.14-10-0184
Sancheznieto, F., Asquith, P., Baez Bermejo, A., Meagher, E. A., & Pfund, C. E. (2024). Mentoring up for early career investigators: Empowering mentees to proactively engage in their mentoring relationships. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 8(1), e86. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2024.524