Graduate Faculty Training and Resources

No matter how far along you are in your role as a graduate faculty member, we encourage you to utilize the trainings and resources below to help you be successful in mentoring graduate students.

Graduate Faculty Orientation Canvas course

This course provides guidance on the major roles and responsibilities of graduate faculty, especially related to mentoring gradaute students. Those who have been approved for graduate faculty membership in April 2020 or later are added to the course upon membership approval. The course is also publicly accessible.

Graduate Faculty Orientation course

If you wish to enroll in the course so that it will appear in your Canvas dashboard, click on the "Join this Course" button on the right side of the course homepage.

Advising Doctoral Students Canvas modules

Developed by Epigeum, graduate faculty, especially those advising doctoral students, are encouraged to utilize these modules to enhance your mentoring skills. While some modules are specific to advising doctoral students, other modules including "Getting Started" and "Cross-Cutting Challenges" are applicable to advising master's students and mentoring students in other capacities. Therefore, we also encourage graduate faculty who mentor only master's students to complete relevant modules.

Post-docs and doctoral students are also welcome to explore these modules. They may find this resource beneficial if they mentor students or are preparing for a career as a future faculty member.

Advising Doctoral Students modules

If you wish to enroll in the course so that it will appear in your Canvas dashboard, click on the "Join this Course" button on the right side of the course homepage.

Additional resources

Supporting graduate student scientific communication

Check out the Scientific Communication Advances Research Excellence (SCOARE) website for resources and guidance to support your efforts in mentoring graduate students in scientific communication.

SCOARE website

 

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

The center is a nationally recognized, independent organization that provides online career development and mentoring resources for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. This resource is provided through a partnership between the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, the Office of Research Development, the Graduate School, and the Office of Diversity.

To claim your free institutional membership, complete the following steps:

1. Go to facultydiversity.org/join.
2. Choose Kansas State University from the drop-down menu.
3. Select "Activate my Membership."
4. Complete the registration form using your K-State email address.
5. Go to your K-State email to find a confirmation/welcome email. Click "Activate Account" in the email.

Questions about membership may be directed to teachingandlearning@ksu.edu. Technical questions may be directed to the center at Membership@FacultyDiversity.org.

Visit K-State's NCFDD website