MORE Committee Workshop (STUDENT): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start

Developed by the MORE Committee, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans, 83 percent find those plans useful. 

Part I: Parallel Sessions, 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

• Faculty Only Session
• Student Only Session

Part II: Joint Session, 11:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

• Faculty and Student Joint Session

Part III: Optional One-on-One Discussion Time, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. 

• Faculty and Student Joint Session

A note to students: Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the previous academic year should feel free to join the workshop only for the student-faculty work together (Part II). Registration is still required of both the faculty and the student.

Separate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/9gE5r.

Developed by the MORE Committee, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans, 83 percent find those plans useful. 

Part I: Parallel Sessions, 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.

• Faculty Only Session
• Student Only Session

Part II: Joint Session, 11:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

• Faculty and Student Joint Session

Part III: Optional One-on-One Discussion Time, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. 

• Faculty and Student Joint Session

A note to students: Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop in the previous academic year should feel free to join the workshop only for the student-faculty work together (Part II). Registration is still required of both the faculty and the student.

Separate registration for faculty is available at: https://myumi.ch/9gE5r.