Student/Advisor Mentoring plan

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.
- https://deanofstudents.ucla.edu/student-conduct-code

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