Graduate Student Mentoring
Faculty Mentors
- Each incoming graduate student will be assigned a faculty mentor via email to guide them through class scheduling, research, and general questions or concerns about academic life.
- This mentorship will last for the student's first academic year, after which they can choose a new faculty mentor or stay with their current mentor.
- For questions or concerns about faculty mentors, please contact the Coordinator of Graduate Programs, Robert Burgard (rburgard@umd.edu).
Graduate Student Mentors
- Incoming graduate students will also be assigned a current graduate student mentor.
- At the start of each semester, GEO (Graduate English Organization) will send out an email with a form to each incoming graduate student to assess which current student would be the best match.
- For questions or concerns about graduate student mentors, please contact the current GEO President, Natalie McGartland (ncm@umd.edu).
Instructional Mentors
- Each graduate student instructor will receive a pedagogical mentor. The process varies depending on which course the student is teaching
- For their first semester teaching ENGL101, each student is assigned a mentor, either a PTK fellow or a graduate student fellow.
- ENGL101 student instructors will also have weekly meetings with a graduate student fellow. These meetings will cover the following week's worth of assignments and lesson plans in the ENGL101 syllabus to guide students through their first semester teaching.