Every year, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly team up to call campus-wide attention to exemplary mentoring provided by faculty members to their graduate students.
Nominations for two special awards are being accepted now through February 7, 2014, from faculty, students, and alumni — please see below and click on the links for specific instructions.
Culminating two exhaustive selection processes, winners are honored annually at an awards ceremony jointly sponsored by the Graduate Assembly and Graduate Division. Both the nominations process and the annual ceremony are designed to highlight and encourage the practices of excellent faculty mentoring.
Learn more about the Graduate Division’s Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Awards and the Graduate Assembly’s Faculty Mentor Awards.
A Quick Guide to the Similarities and Distinctions of the Major Faculty Awards for Mentoring of Graduate Students
| Award: | Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards |
| Eligible: | Academic Senate members (two award categories, one for any rank, one for untenured) |
| Honoring: | High-quality mentoring of graduate students |
| Who may nominate: | Department chairs, faculty colleagues, former students; others including current graduate students may add supporting letters |
| Nomination deadline: | February 7, 2014 at 5 pm (open now) |
| Presentation: | April 15, 2014, 4 to 6 pm |
| Sponsor: | Graduate Division (with a bequest from Carol D. Soc, who worked in the Graduate Division for over 40 years, until 2012) |
| Award: | Distinguished Faculty Mentor Awards |
| Eligible: | Academic Senate members |
| Honoring: | Outstanding commitment to mentoring, developing, and supporting graduate students in research |
| Who may nominate: | Graduate students who have benefited directly from nominee’s mentoring/advising |
| Nomination deadline: | Friday February 7, 2014 at 5pm (open now) |
| Presentation: | April 15, 2014, 4 to 6 pm |
| Sponsor: | Graduate Assembly |