They agreed that the report covered these concerns and agreed that they would continue to monitor what is happening in this area, rather than forming a special committee. Issues for 1996-97 Ian Reynolds reported that graduate students are concerned about the uneven quality of mentoring by faculty. He asks if the evaluation of mentoring or the improvement of mentoring is an issue for UCGS to consider. UCGS discussed mentoring in various programs. Graduate students are asked for imput at the time of promotion of a faculty member.
Some departments have a mentor for teaching as well as for scholarship and research.
One way to evaluate mentoring is through the success of graduates. The guidelines approved by UCGS in 1993 for evaluating new programs were discussed. These have never been used, and seem cumbersome and time consuming. UCGS was asked whether it encourages these being instituted or whether it would advise other procedures. After discussion UCGS recommended that an abbreviated review be carried out by which comparisons of basic data is compared with the projections in the proposal.