Open AccessAdjusting Expectations: The Impact of 2020 Campus Closures on Advisors’ Approaches to Graduate Student Mentorship
Author(s) -
Zoe Koth,
A. Kelly Lane
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of microbiology and biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1935-7885
pISSN - 1935-7877
DOI - 10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2475
Subject(s) - mentorship , covid-19 , medical education , pandemic , graduate students , graduate degree , graduate education , health science , medicine , virology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The spring 2020 campus closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic may have posed particular challenges related to the mentorship of science graduate students. In this study, science faculty mentors from one U.S. university report on potential delays to degree completion and their expectations of their mentees during this time.