Mentoring graduate students - advising days and other approaches

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah completed a sweeping overhaul and reform of their graduate program in 2017-2019. Among the many changes, new advising practices were adopted, including the introduction of regular, mandatory meetings of students and their committee members and a new required "professional development" course for second year graduate students. I'll discuss the evolution and implementation of these and other new practices and share some data and personal insights on how they support student success.