- Make sure your mentees encounter a broad and diverse set of people during their research experiences. Ideally, many of these people they encounter will have shared backgrounds and experiences with your mentees.
- If you don’t match the gender, race, or socio-economic status of the student, find people who do to be part of the mentoring team.
- Develop a mentoring pyramid with undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
- Let the graduate students mentor the undergrads, even though they’ll make some mistakes.
- This gives your graduate students the opportunity to develop their mentoring skills and provides an additional mentor to your student.
- NCWIT’s Mentoring-in-a-Box resource is a great resource for mentoring women. You should use it!
