"It is our hope that students who take these trainings will impact the whole ecosystem at Clemson and that they will carry these skills into the next stages of their lives so that people they work with in future careers will also benefit from these trainings."
So says Marieke Van Puymbroeck, associate dean of professional development and health and well-being at Clemson University's Graduate School, after the school's Creative Inquiry program partnered with the Graduate School this year to help graduate students level up their mentoring, the State reports.
The mentoring program is designed specifically for research mentorship and includes training modules on topics such as assessing expectations, maintaining effective communication, fostering professional development, promoting independence and research experiential self-efficacy, and fostering mental health and well-being.
Participants then implement what they've learned and write a reflection on their experience.
The training is based on the work of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, which is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"The CI mentors engaged in active conversations, problem-solving, and reflection about their experience mentoring CI students and their experience with their mentors," says Van Puymbroeck.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.