Description. Your relationship with your mentor is one of the most important of those you will have during graduate school. However, many (if not most) graduate students rarely consider how to best “manage their mentor." In this session, you will learn more about what mentors have to say about how to best “manage” them, from communication suggestions to practical advice for making progress. With this insight, not only will you be a better mentee, but you’ll also gain useful insights into mentoring relationships generally.

Learning Outcomes. As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 

1. Describe some faculty experiences with productive and unproductive mentoring

2. Outline good practices for “managing your mentor”

3. Determine which practices you will attempt

Presenter(s). Beth A. Boehm, Ph.D., is a Professor of English, Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs and Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies.  Her research and teaching cross three different areas of English studies: Modern British literature; narrative studies; and rhetoric, composition and pedagogy.  She regularly teaches first-year composition, undergraduate literary surveys and special topic courses, and graduate courses in narrative, rhetoric, contemporary British literature and teaching literature.  In 2001 and 2003 she won A&S Distinguished Teaching Awards, and in 2003 also she won the University Distinguished Teaching Award;  in 2009 she won the University Service Award.   She has served her department as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and Vice Chair.  She has been an active faculty senator since 1999, and was elected Vice Chair of the Senate in 2004, and Chair in 2006.  She has served on the University of Louisville Athletic Association Board and on the Board of Trustees.

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