The FAIM Practical Toolkit for Mentoring includes tools and resources to support mentor and mentee pairs as they collaboratively establish, communicate, and refine mutual expectations within their mentoring relationships.

The resources and tools available are meant to support:

• Advancing a Mission & Values Driven System
• Developing an Inclusive Mentoring Plan & Setting Mutual Expectations in Mentoring Pairs
• Engaging in Crucial Conversations
• Strategically Developing a Network of Mentors
• Creating Individual Development Plan
• Setting Shared Group Expectations
• Developing Mentorship Plans for Sponsored Projects

Download the FAIM Practical Toolkit for Mentoring

Access and download all of the current tools within the FAIM Practical Toolkit for Mentoring available to support the development of inclusive and supportive mentoring relationships.

Additional Mentoring Resources & Tools

Cornell Graduate School Practical Toolkit for Supporting Belonging

The Graduate School Practical Toolkit for Supporting Belonging includes resources Directors of Graduate Studies, Department Chairs, and other faculty and administrative leadership can leverage to address support sense of belonging within graduate fields and academic departments. The toolkit also includes suggested actions that can help guide progress as faculty and others seek to support meaningful and positive change within graduate education.

AAAS Science

For practical guidance for meeting the new NSF 24-1 guidelines, which include mentoring plan and individual development plan requirements for proposals submitted on or after May 20, 2024, see this May 23, 2024, Science Article: Want NSF funding? You’ll need to submit a grad student mentoring plan. 

NCFDD

The NCFDD is a national organization that supports faculty development. NCFDD provides a core curriculum to teach you the 10 key skills necessary to thrive in the Academy. NCFDD defines “thriving” as having extraordinary writing and research productivity AND having a full and healthy life off campus.

Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center

The Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center advances equity in graduate education by conducting and translating research that is inspired by community needs, and offering high-quality, evidence-based professional development that provides faculty and administrators with tools and resources to create and sustain institutional change.

Resources provided by the EGE Resource Center include a toolkit designed to engage mentors in deeper thinking about how mentoring relationships in graduate education can embody equity-mindedness. The exercises in the Equity-minded mentoring toolkit are designed to help establish shared understandings of mentoring expectations and facilitate conversations about equity in mentoring relationships.

NASEM The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM

National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) interactive online guide to the Science of Effective Mentoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine (STEMM) provides guidance and tools to help develop and maintain strong and effective mentorship.

Council of Graduate Schools

The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) provides a compilation of Mentoring Resources focused on meeting the needs of mentors, mentees, and academic leadership. Additionally, CGS provides guides such as the Great Mentoring in Graduate School: A QUICK START GUIDE FOR PROTÉGÉS, a resource to help graduate students identify quality mentors and serve as helpful peer mentors to others.

CGS and the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosted webinars on April 23 and June 18, 2024, to provide an overview of the NSF 24-1 requirements for mentoring plans and individual development plans for graduate students for proposals submitted on or after May 20, 2024. Recordings of these webinars can be accessed on the CGS YouTube Channel.

CGS also operates the Innovations in Graduate Education Hub through funding from NSF. The goal of the IGE Hub is to foster learning and collaboration among IGE awardees and provide broader dissemination of information and opportunities across the STEM graduate community.