The graduate coordinator has the authority to mentor senior faculty as needed. It is important to recognize a student who is having problems with rules or faculty and to intervene as possible. Advisor is not necessarily a mentor. Mentoring is an active process in which a student who needs mentoring can find a social mentor or an academic mentor. We are working on setting up a program to recognize problems and intervene.
Mentored students do better.
Mentoring is about feeling supported and being part of a community. How do we encourage students' committees to be more involved. Flag registration if a student doesn't follow rules. Department has to govern committee participation.