1. Advising Doctoral Students

2. Provide innovative professional training for doctoral supervisors
Advising Doctoral Students
Provide innovative professional training for doctoral supervisors
Program structure:
Number of courses: 7
Core activities: 7.45 hours
Additional activities: 13.5 hours

3. Contributors LEAD ADVISOR: Professor Nicholas Steneck
Director of the Research Ethics and Integrity Program of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research and Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan, USA

4. Professor Barbara Knuth
Contributors
Dr George E. Walker
Retired Professor of Physics and the Chief Strategy Officer at Cleveland State University
Professor Barbara Knuth
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Cornell University

5. Development Group Members
Contributors
Development Group Members
Florida International University
Kansas State University
Oregon State University 
University of California -San Diego
Western Michigan University  

6. About this program
Advising Doctoral Students empowers universities to ensure that all faculty involved in advising candidates are well equipped to deal with emerging challenges in this continually-changing field.
The program is designed to help both new and experienced doctoral advisors develop their ability to effectively mentor doctoral students and to support them in becoming in independent researchers.
The Advising Doctoral Students program has been adapted for US universities from the Supervising Doctoral Studies program, published for the International non-USA market in August 2014 (The original authors of SDS are credited in the ADS program WelcomeScreens).

7. Overview
The eight 30-minute units will help to create effective advisors by allowing them to consider and reflect key areas of responsibility such as:
The evaluation of potential students and their suitability for doctoral study.
Assessing the doctoral students’ diverse needs and provision of timely training.
A thorough understanding of institutional guidelines and career expectations.
Administration of the supervisor-student relationship.
Guiding a student through their research period and transition to writing.
Preparation for qualifying examinations and dissertation defense.

8. Syllabus Introduction to Advising Doctoral Students
Introduction to Advising Doctoral Students introduces the program and prepares participants for later units. It asks the pressing question ‘What makes an effective doctoral advisor?’, which the full program aims to answer.
Core: 30 minutes
Syllabus:
Introduction to the program and features
What makes an effective doctoral advisor?
Preparing to be an advisor and
recruiting the right students
Preparing to be an advisor and recruiting the right students covers strategies for recruiting and admitting the students best fitted to an advisor’s doctoral program. It sets the stage for the courses that follow by helping advisors consider their attitude and suitability for doctoral advising, in addition to their institutional context.
Core: 45 minutes
Additional: 2 hours 30 minutes
 Responsibilities of a doctoral advisor
Initial preparations
Recruiting doctoral students
Admitting doctoral students
Meeting applicants’ expectations
Getting started
Getting started suggests tools for clarifying advisor’s and students’ expectations of each other and aligning different advising styles to student needs. It gives advisors practical guidelines
for keeping their students on track and helps them consider how they can support a diverse, inclusive doctoral environment.
Core: 1 hour
Additional: 2 hours 20 minutes
Syllabus: 
Establishing relationships and clarifying expectations
Understanding different approaches to advising
Getting you and your student organized
Supporting diversity and inclusion

9. Syllabus Pre-candidacy Cross-cutting challenges
Pre-candidacy covers the range of issues that advisors need to consider before their students advance to candidacy, including: creating a supportive doctoral environment, helping students follow best practices for research integrity, ensuring that students acquire the necessary research and writing skills, and delivering effective feedback.
Core: 1 hour
Additional: 3 hours 10 minutes
Syllabus:
Creating a supportive doctoral environment
Fostering integrity throughout the doctoral process
Assisting with skills development
Developing communication and writing skills
Providing feedback
Preparing for and advancing to candidacy
Cross-cutting challenges
Cross-cutting challenges covers issues that advisors may need to consider to various stages of their students’ progress. In particular, the course focuses on helping students plan for and develop their careers, whether academic or non- academic, managing relationships with students and colleagues; and providing support to students who struggle with personal difficulties, learning disabilities, health issues, or an overall lack of motivation.
Additional: 2 hours
Syllabus: 
Academic professional development
Career development
Managing relationships with students and colleagues
Providing personal support
Supporting students with learning disabilities and health issues
Supporting students if they lose motivation

10. Syllabus Conclusion and practice scenarios
The doctoral project and dissertation
The doctoral project and dissertation considers how advisors can help students find and develop dissertation topics, select appropriate members of their doctoral committee, and handle common on problems that may come up throughout the research and writing process.
Core: 1 hour
Additional: 3 hours 15 minutes
Syllabus:
Defining the project and identifying key tasks
Establishing a committee
Supporting the production of the dissertation
Dealing with problems
Finalizing and submitting the dissertation
Conclusion and practice scenarios 
This concluding unit allows advisors to reflect on the program as a whole, to assess their own performance, and to apply what they have learned to real-life scenarios. It provides advisors with strategies to develop and improve their practice by seeking feedback and establishing their own mentor relationships
Core: 25 minutes
Additional: 20 minutes
Syllabus: 
Reflective practice and performance assessment
Practice scenario activities

11. Advising Doctoral Students
Course features:
Video interviews with new and experienced supervisors and students
Case studies and practical scenarios exploring real-life examples
Polling feature enabling participants to compare their responses to complex questions with those of their peers
Customizable portfolio incorporating practical and in-depth reflective self-development activities
Conclusion unit containing full program resource bank, reference and interactive practice scenarios
13 hours of additional self-development, peer-to-peer and tutor-led activities
Supplement which covers how to implement the courses for effective results and integrate the additional activities into a fully blended learning program.

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