Individual/Group meeting expectations (interval/frequency, journal articles, presentations, socializing, time management, reviewing manuscripts, revising manuscripts/dealing with rejection, careers, current events, media requests)
Expectations decided upon within each individual research group. It is up to the students and their advisor to express and set these expectations. A resource for these expectations may lie within a group code of conduct or mentoring agreement, as suggested below.
Outline expectations for taking vacation (e.g., 3 weeks) and for reasonable work hours (e.g., 40-50 hrs/wk; be explicit!)
This should be made explicit amongst research group – a Mentoring Agreement or research group code-of-conduct would be an ideal location to flesh out these expectations and uphold them.
Evaluations: rubric, frequency for advisor/committee evaluations, encourage self-evaluation (reflection) and review long term goals and how to achieve them
Student and Advisor must complete an annual end of the year review to discuss and document degree progress
Suggestion: at the beginning of the year students and their advisors could create a “Mentorship Agreement.” An example used by UCLA’s AOS department is provided in the resource folder in the google drive (With permission from the owner of this example agreement, a grad student from AOS): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pQJbGP7JSdtkqNiqbXnccMgQfWYMjXOw/view?usp=sharing
