Open AccessAdvisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Bring a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
Author(s) -
Fiske Peter S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/98eo00034
Subject(s) - mentorship , field (mathematics) , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , graduate students , student life , medical education , computer science , medicine , mathematics , library science , pure mathematics
Mentorship is one of the fundamental keys to growth and learning in any field, not just science. But our profession is unusual to the degree in which mentoring is used to guide and develop scientists, especially during the years of graduate school. While the Ph.D. advisor is rarely the sole mentor in a student's life, the success or failure of this relationship can literally make or break a young scientist. Most advisors I talk to believe they do an effective job of mentoring their students. Most students I talk to disagree.