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Mentoring Graduate Students - Roles and Responsibilities

Graduate student mentorship is a partnership that takes many shapes, including (but are not limited to): teaching, research, professional and personal development plus guidance of teaching fellows/teaching assistants.  This guide is intended as a starting point with resources for both faculty and graduate students to work together across our diverse degree programs in the UNT College of Music and to navigate graduate degree programs.  Each semester, the Director of Graduate Studies provides an orientation which summarizes much of this information. 

The CoM enrolls approximately five hundred and fifty graduate students across its seven degree programs, each with specific requirements.  This Mentoring Handbook provides a brief guide to relevant terminology and procedures, which may differ in ways large and small from those of other institutions. It focuses on the mentoring of MM and DMA students, who make up the bulk of our graduate student population. The other degree programs mentioned above typically feature analogous requirements.