The Graduate Inclusive Mentoring Community

The Graduate Inclusive Mentoring Community (GIMC) seeks to build educational opportunities and community support for those who strive to excel at mentoring graduate students.Ìý

The GIMC provides a sense of community for mentors through creating supportive, inclusive spaces where mentors can share mentoring challenges, collaborate on developing best practices to address these challenges, and celebrate mentoring successes. Members of the community will commit to mentor training and ongoing efforts to build and support a community of engaged mentors and willÌýreceive public recognition in a variety of ways, honoring their ongoing commitment to mentorship.

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Mentoring Trainings

These trainings help address mentoring challenges and improve individual mentorship skills.

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GIMC Meetings

These meetings allow mentors to identify specific mentoring challenges and ways that institutional policies can address these challenges.

Get Involved with GIMC

ÌýOfficially joining the GIMC requires:

  1. Completing an intake form about reasons for joining and some of your mentorship goals;
  2. Attending at least sixÌýtrainings or meetings of your choice throughout the school year; and
  3. Completing an outtake form narrating mentoring growth and providing feedback about programming.

Maintaining GIMC membership after joining requires attending fourÌýsessions per year, in addition to completing yearly intake and outtake forms.