Training

The Graduate Student Mentorship Network can help departments, graduate student groups, and colleges launch their own mentorship programs. We have a wealth of resources to support this endeavor, including a Mentorship Program Toolkit and interdisciplinary peer mentor, postdoctoral, and faculty mentorship best practices training.

Mentorship Program Toolkit

For departments and colleges that plan to implement a department- or college-specific mentoring program, GSMN can provide a blueprint for launching the program. The toolkit includes the following:

What is a mentor? What is the mentor’s role?
Why launch a mentorship program?
Research on mentorship within the graduate student community
Possible mentorship program structures
Mentorship program best practices
Things to consider when pairing mentees and mentors
Resource library to support mentees and mentors
Access to mentorship program document templates, evaluation tools, and methodologies to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and services.
How GSMN can help

Email GSMN to get a copy of your toolkit today!

Peer Mentor Training - Certificate & Badge

Advanced graduate students can learn to be effective mentors through a day-long training program delivered by GSMN staff via the Power of the Peers Network Conference. Training topics include mentoring best practices, understanding the role of the mentor, conducting successful mentoring sessions, active listening and responding, previous mentor panel, and professional ethics of peer mentoring, among others. Check back in September for registration details.

Postdoc & Faculty Mentor Best Practices Workshops - Certificate & Badge

Postdoc scholars and faculty can explore high-impact, evidence-based mentorship practices through a four-module training program delivered by GSMN staff and Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) facilitators. CIMER topics include aligning expectations, articulating a Mentoring Philosophy and plan, assessing understanding, cultivating ethical behavior, fostering independence, maintaining effective communication, promoting mentee research self-efficacy, promoting professional development, and reflecting on diversity & establishing a practice of inclusion.

About CIMER

GSMP Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholar mentors are given access to the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) curriculum as part of continued training and reflection on the mentorship enterprise. The UCR Graduate Division and GSMP have partnered with CIMER to implement evidence-based, interactive mentor training curricula that engage mentors of all career stages in collective problem-solving and connect them with resources to optimize their mentoring practices. The curricula series addresses the new NIGMS guidelines regarding the preparation of mentors involved in training grants. The themes and concepts covered in the curricula include aligning expectations, articulating your mentoring philosophy and plan, assessing mentee understanding, cultivating ethical behavior, fostering independence, maintaining effective communication, promoting professional development, and reflecting on diversity & establishing a practice of inclusion.