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

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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. 

Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.



MORE Committee Workshop (FACULTY-CENTRAL CAMPUS): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start

Available Seats 25 Registration Closes: April 24, 2026 - 12:00pm
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Palmer Commons (Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Rooms)

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

  • Faculty Only Session
  • Mentoring Across Difference 2.0 Faculty Only Session (for returning faculty)
  • 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 Mentoring Time, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. 

  • Faculty and Student Joint Session

Faculty who have attended a MORE workshop within the previous two academic years have two options to choose from for Part I:

  1. Attend Mentoring Across Difference 2.0: A newly developed faculty only session intended to engage faculty in deeper reflection about the issues, concerns, and situations involved when mentoring students from non-traditional backgrounds. Faculty are invited to consider specific actions to take in research and learning spaces that address issues and concerns pertaining to mentoring across differences. The session encourages and supports faculty to explore approaches and solutions that work best for them and their students in particular research laboratories, research teams, and in the research projects students are pursuing under a mentor’s guidance. *Note: We require a minimum of approximately 12 registered faculty members to run this parallel session.
  2. Attend only the faculty and student joint sessions: Part II and Part III (optional). Part II sessions starts at 11:10 a.m.

Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.

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