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Best Practices
The Graduate College provides information on best practices to enrich the graduate experience for students and faculty.
10 Tips for Curating Your Digital Portfolio
Research shows that a digital portfolio is a valuable tool to help students better track their academic progress and more favorably position themselves for post-graduate success.
10 Best Practices in Graduate Student Well-being
This document helps outline the initiation stage of the mentoring relationship and the key elements of a mentoring agreement.
Creating a Mentoring Agreement
This document helps outline the initiation stage of the mentoring relationship and the key elements of a mentoring agreement.
This document helps highlight the desired objectives of the mentoring relationship. Goals can be personal, academic, professional or a combination.
Initiating Mentoring Relationships
There are three stages of formal mentoring relationships; initiation, cultivation and culmination.
Mentoring relationships are based on intentional, goal-driven conversations. Follow these six strategies for more productive mentorship.
Nine Best Practices for Mentors
This document provides guidelines for expanding your skillsets as a mentor.
Top 12 Considerations for Designing New Academic Programs
This document provides guidelines for expanding your skillsets as a mentor.
Key considerations for creating academic plans
This document provides guidelines in creating academic plans, submitting through Curriculum ChangeMaker and writing a compelling proposal.
Best Practice Tips for Preparing Learning Outcomes and Measures for Academic Plans
These guidelines help ensure your plan is as clear and strategic as possible.
Guidelines for onboarding new online graduate programs
Are you starting an online program or adding online delivery, consider these guidelines.
Knowledge Mobilization: 10 Tips on How to Conceptualize Your Knowledge Mobilization Efforts
How will your research impact the world?
The Mentoring Connection: Choosing a mentoring program
This best practice document outlines ways to classify and think about mentoring, helping you to foster successful strategies for your mentoring relationship.
The Mentoring Connection: Peer mentoring
Mentoring has been identified as one of the most effective ways of bolstering graduate student success and persistence.
How to prepare effective graduate program handbooks
The deadline for graduate program handbook submission to the Graduate College is July 1, 2018.
JumpStart master’s program approach using innovative specializations to grow new degrees
Take a look at how you can leverage existing master's programs for new degrees.
Committee Approval Requests Will Now Use DocuSign
Download the best practice quick guide for using DocuSign for Committee Approval Requests.
Best Practices for Peer Mentoring
Graduate school is designed to challenge and expose students to multiple perspectives.