MCP-PHD - Molecular and Cellular Physiology (PhD)

External credit is not accepted.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology is committed to providing academic advising in support of graduate student scholarly and professional development. When most effective, this advising relationship entails collaborative and sustained engagement by the advisor and the advisee. As a best practice, advising expectations should be periodically discussed and reviewed to ensure mutual understanding. Both the advisor and the advisee are expected to maintain professionalism and integrity.

Faculty advisors guide students in critical areas such as selecting courses, designing and conducting research, developing teaching pedagogy, navigating policies and degree requirements, and exploring academic opportunities and professional pathways.

Faculty Advisors:

• serve as intellectual and professional mentors to their graduate students

• provide knowledgeable support concerning the academic and non-academic policies that pertain to graduate students

• help to prepare students to be competitive for employment

• maintain a high level of professionalism in the relationship

• establish and collaboratively maintain expectations of the advisor/advisee relationship, consistent with departmental standards.

Graduate students are active contributors to the advising relationship, proactively seeking academic and professional guidance and taking responsibility for informing themselves of policies and degree requirements for their graduate program.

See Graduate Advising for a statement of university policy on graduate advising.