This chapter highlights the types of mentors, expectations in mentoring relationships, identification and management of mentoring interactions and transitioning to colleague status.
International students are further hampered by their limited experience with and expectations of mentoring and by their piecemeal knowledge of broader aspects of U.S. society and science.
To promote this broader curriculum, funding agencies should define national expectations for mentoring, professional skills training, and career development for graduate and postdoctoral trainees, and provide funding to develop and implement these types of initiatives.
Online surveys were conducted to compare health-related and attitudinal measures and expectations of mentoring at baseline with outcomes at 6 months and 1 year using paired t-tests and McNemar's test for matched cohort data.
… Even their expectations about what mentoring and advising look like may differ across cultural and national boundaries," warns Daniel Denecke, associate vice president of programs and best practices at the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), in an interview with Science Careers.
Institutions in Africa should seize the existing funding opportunities to create harmonized programs with clear, uniform expectations, accountability, and mentoring to ensure the success of individual trainees across programs.
A Mentor's Expectations of Protégés Mentors expect protégés to prepare for their discussions.
Many of the students also highlighted the high expectations of mentors and teachers as instrumental to their growth and crucial to their success.
It took careful two-way communications, mentoring, reasonable modifications of expectations and timelines, and writing templates and leadership guides to keep faculty involved and supportive of project goals and activities.
The experienced half will have a weight of expectation on his shoulders as he'll be expected to create chances while mentoring his young partner Marc Sneyd.
