Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring
Faculty Award Criteria

  1. Promotes successful completion of students' research and degree programs by monitoring progress and offering honest, constructive feedback when needed or sought
  2. Commits to advancing students' long-term professional development-throughout their journey from student to professional-by recognizing and making potential colleagues aware of their natural talents and acquired skills and by integrating students into the broader culture of the discipline
  3. Ensures that students master the content and skills of their discipline, including the ability to teach or present that content to professional and non-professional audiences
  4. Creates a supportive environment for research and scholarship by fostering mutual respect and demonstrating sincere and active interest in the well being of the student
  5. Maintains accessibility by providing consistently open lines of communication
  6. Connects students with the resources necessary to take full advantage of academic and professional opportunities and enables students by helping them to develop their own local and national networks
  7. Models a solid record of scholarship marked by excellence in research and teaching skills, research presentation and publication, the ability to obtain funding, and the exercise and nurturing of good mentoring practices
  8. Exercises discernment in directing students to appropriate resources and shows a willingness to work collaboratively with other faculty in multiple-mentoring relationships

The Duke University Graduate School would like to acknowledge the mentoring award models of Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. These models provided a framework for the preparation of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

Last Updated: 11/9/2007 (by wat@duke.edu)