The Graduate Advisor Handbook
A Student-Centered Approach
160 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2014
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Beginning the Advisory Relationship
Working from Strengths
Advising Takes Different Forms
Making the Commitment
2 Student-Centered Advising
Building Autonomy
Financial Support
Sensitivity to Changes in Student Needs
Academic Integrity
Time Counts
Scaffolding and Self-Monitoring Progress
3 Maintaining Boundaries in Routine Interactions
Distinguishing Work and Home
Maintaining Balance
Cultural Sensitivity
Socializing at Home
Socializing in Academic Settings
Physical Contact
Hard News
Life Coaching
4 Quagmires and Sticky Situations
Advisor versus Advisor
Refugees and Wanderers
Conflict and Rivalry among Advisees
Procrastination and Delays
Disclosures
Conflicts of Interest
Sex
5 Career Support
Beyond the Fixed Curriculum
Reference Letters
Publishing Together
Mentoring
6 Institutionalizing a Culture of Student-Centered Advising
Appendix 1: Additional Reading
Appendix 2: Sample Contract for Graduate Advising
Appendix 3: Student-Centered Advising Checklist
Index
Acknowledgments
1 Beginning the Advisory Relationship
Working from Strengths
Advising Takes Different Forms
Making the Commitment
2 Student-Centered Advising
Building Autonomy
Financial Support
Sensitivity to Changes in Student Needs
Academic Integrity
Time Counts
Scaffolding and Self-Monitoring Progress
3 Maintaining Boundaries in Routine Interactions
Distinguishing Work and Home
Maintaining Balance
Cultural Sensitivity
Socializing at Home
Socializing in Academic Settings
Physical Contact
Hard News
Life Coaching
4 Quagmires and Sticky Situations
Advisor versus Advisor
Refugees and Wanderers
Conflict and Rivalry among Advisees
Procrastination and Delays
Disclosures
Conflicts of Interest
Sex
5 Career Support
Beyond the Fixed Curriculum
Reference Letters
Publishing Together
Mentoring
6 Institutionalizing a Culture of Student-Centered Advising
Appendix 1: Additional Reading
Appendix 2: Sample Contract for Graduate Advising
Appendix 3: Student-Centered Advising Checklist
Index
Review Quotes
Patrick S. Osmer, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the Graduate School, The Ohio State University
“This is an extremely useful and readable guidebook for anyone in graduate education. Shore clearly understands that advising is the signature feature of a graduate student’s degree experience, and he makes a persuasive case against the proverbial sink-or-swim approach that many faculty may have themselves experienced. Instead, Shore shows that there is much to gain if faculty, students, and universities adopt what he calls a ’student-centered’ approach to advising.”
G. Dennis O'Brien, former president, University of Rochester
“Bruce M. Shore’s valuable and timely The Graduate Advisor’s Handbook concludes with a paragraph entitled ‘Do It Right.’ Indeed. Too many advisors—and faculty—still adhere to the sink-or-swim philosophy of graduate study. Shore’s detailed recommendations carefully balance the talents, needs, and status of graduate students with the skills, assistance, and authority of graduate faculty. Why be attentive to the rubrics of advising? Shore makes it crystal clear. ‘Graduate education is about students emerging as colleagues.’ Ill-considered advising cheats students and damages our disciplines. ‘Do it right.’”
Victor A. Bloomfield, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Most faculty want to do well by their students, and most of them do, but nearly all find some situations awkward, think less than they should about their students as people with full, complex lives, or find it difficult to strike the right balance in their advising relationships. Shore’s experience as both an advisor and an administrator allows him to speak from experience and write with insight about how to better handle the various situations in which graduate advisors and their students may find themselves.”
Lorraine Lopez, Vanderbilt University
“This is a terrifically helpful guide that is thoughtful and comprehensive, while being concise and readable. I feel confident I will be a better graduate advisor for having read it.”
Times Higher Education
"Good graduate student advising is both an art and a science. But what books there are on good advising tend to focus on the science: how to tackle the dissertation, part by part, or how to help a student secure funding. So what about those more nuanced, personal aspects of advising, such as how to help a student through a major life transition? Or what to say when he discloses something private, such as the fact that he has a learning disability? . . . Shore, professor emeritus of educational psychology at McGill University, wrote The Graduate Advisor Handbook: A Student-Centered Approach to pass on what he learned over more than 40 years as a professor and to fill a perceived gap in the literature."
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