The Advisor/Trainee Relationship

Responsibilities of students, advisors, post-doctoral fellows, mentors and others

AWIS mentoring project and mentoring resources, Association for Women in Science

Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct, 2002, National Academies Press (NAP)

Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering, NAP

Council of Graduate Schools
Source of a number of publications on graduate education including: On the Right Track: A Manual for Research Mentors (2003), A Conversation about Mentoring: Trends and Models (1995), Research Student and Supervisor: An Approach to Good Supervisory Practice (1990).

How to Get the Mentoring You Want, A Guide for Graduate Students at a Diverse University, University of Michigan

How to Mentor Graduate Students, A Guide for Faculty in a Diverse University, University of Michigan

Guidelines for Good Practice in Graduate Education, University of Washington Graduate School

Mentoring Resources for Graduate Students and Faculty, University of Washington Graduate School
Includes links to pdf copies of guides for graduate students and for faculty.

Report of the Committee on Ph.D. Supervision (Endrenyi Report), University of Toronto

Graduate Supervision: Guidelines for Students, Faculty, and Administrators, University of Toronto

Supervisory Checklists, University of Toronto

A Handbook for Graduate Students and Advisers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Guiding Standards for Faculty Supervision of Graduate Students, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Graduate Program Improvement, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Program at University of Washington
   This site has many resources and links, for example:
   Ph.D. Resources, Obtaining a Ph.D., Surviving Graduate School
   Ph.D. Resources, Obtaining a Ph.D., Choosing a Committee/Advisor
   Promising Practices, Mentoring of Graduate Students

Michigan State University Conflict Resolution Program

Online Ethics Instructional Modules:
   bullet goldResponsibility for Bugs and Errors
   bullet goldThe Supervisor-Trainee Relationship

Research Ethics Modules, North Carolina State University
   bullet goldThe Mentoring of Graduate Students

Other Publications:

Special Issue on Mentoring and the Responsible Conduct of Research, Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 7, No. 4. July 2001.

Weil, Vivian. 2001. Mentoring: Some Ethical Considerations. Science and Engineering Ethics 7(4): 471–482.

Weil, Vivian and Robert Arzbaecher. 1997. Relationships in Laboratories and Research Communities, in Research Ethics, A Reader, Deni Elliott and Judy E. Stern, editors. University Press of New England