Mentoring

• Would you like to see your mentees demonstrate greater independence? This session of the mentoring series will further your skills in cultivating environments to help your mentees establish trust, gain confidence, and achieve goals. This interactive, online session is for all faculty who engage in undergraduate, graduate, and peer mentoring. This workshop draws from training offered via the Center for Improvement of Mentor Experiences in Research (CIMER) and the work of Pfund, Branchaw, and Handelsman. This session reflects a history of  partnership among the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the Graduate School, Graduate Mentoring Academy, UGA Mentor Program, and the Office of Faculty Affairs.

• Day	Time	Location/Facilitator
  Wednesday, February 1, 2023	2:00-3:30 pm Via Zoom	Facilitators: Jeremy Daniel, Assistant to the Director for Strategic Initiatives, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and Mary Carney, Director of Programming in Faculty Affairs

• This session of the mentoring series will focus on how to foster an environment that supports wellbeing among your graduate student mentees and how to respond to students experiencing challenges. The session will offer resources and tools to support student wellbeing.

• Day	Time	Location/Facilitator
  Thursday, February 23, 2023	12:30-2:00 pm Via Zoom	Facilitator: Anne Shaffer, Associate Dean of the Graduate School

• This session offers faculty an opportunity to hone their communication skills in the context of mentoring in such areas as active listening, effective feedback, bridging differences, and appropriate boundaries. This workshop draws from training offered via the Center for Improvement of Mentor Experiences in Research (CIMER) and the work of Pfund, Branchaw, and Handelsman.

• Day	Time	Location/Facilitator
  Friday, November 4, 2022	10:00 am - 12:00 pm via Zoom	Facilitators: Kaori Sakamoto and Mary Carney

• Participants will raise their awareness about cross-cultural mentoring and learn techniques to bridge differences as they build strong mentor/mentee relationships. This session draws from training offered via the workshop “My Voice, My Story” developed by Cornell University Graduate School. The primary objectives of “My Voice, My Story” are to utilize the power of narrative to achieve greater understanding of the lived experiences of mentees, shared stories that frequently go untold, and develop strategies on how to create more inclusive and supportive research and learning environments. This session is a partnership of the Graduate School, Graduate Mentoring Academy, and the Office of Faculty Affairs.

• Day	Time	Location/Facilitator
  Wednesday, February 15, 2023	10:00 - 11:30 am via Zoom	Facilitators: Shu-mei Chang, Professor of Plant Biology, and Janette Hill, Professor of Learning, Design, & Technology

This interactive, online session focusing on the mentoring and supervision of graduate students, primarily in research training contexts. The goals of the session are to develop a shared mentor/mentee understanding of what each person expects from the relationship and identify how to set up scaffolding structures to ensure ongoing alignment of expectations, including the use of individual development plans (IDPs) and mentoring compacts. This workshop draws from training offered via the Center for Improvement of Mentor Experiences in Research (CIMER) and the work of Pfund, Branchaw, and Handelsman.

• Day	Time	Location/Facilitator
  Wednesday, October 11, 2023	10:00 – 11:30 am via Zoom	Facilitators: Andrew Grundstein & Anne Shaffer