Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

13.998.2Different approaches to mentoring GSIs currently exist in current literature and practice. Westudied examples of previously implemented faculty-student mentoring, peer mentoring in pairs,and centralized peer mentoring programs for comparison with the EGSM initiative.Faculty-graduate student teams can effectively give the GSI a teaching internship opportunitywhere the GSI shares the teaching responsibilities with a faculty mentor 3, 4, 5or even serves as theprimary instructor with the faculty member in a supervisory role.6 In some cases, faculty- andGSI-development professionals provide consulting and mentoring services.7 This technique hasproved effective for helping the graduate student grow as a teacher and prepare for an academiccareer. While

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University; Rachel F. Perlman, Stony Brook University; Kimberly Bell, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

:00am EST slot for formalprogram engagement (see Table below for the schedule). As a large segment of the incominggraduate student cohort was from Asia, that slot translated into 10:00pm - 12:00midnight inBeijing. Virtual Happy Hours were scheduled each day @ 9:00pm EST / 10:00am GMT+8 and co-hosted by volunteer student ambassadors. The introductory meeting was a large-scale Zoom welcome, attended by faculty, staff,peers, and students from all CEAS departments, and focused on warm welcomes, wide smiles, abit of silliness, and as much excitement as could be transmitted in a virtual space. Immediatelyfollowing was exclusive peer-to-peer time, where new students and student ambassadors couldnetwork in multiple Zoom breakouts, curated with