Both graduate students and faculty mentors derive a number of benefits from a successful mentoring relationship.

• acquire a body of knowledge and skills
• develop techniques for collaborating and networking
• gain perspective on how a discipline operates academically, socially, and politically
• acquire a sense of scholarly citizenship by grasping their roles in a larger educational enterprise
• deal more confidently with the challenges of intellectual work

• engage the curiosities and energies of fresh minds
• keep abreast of new research questions, knowledge, paradigms, and techniques
• cultivate collaborators for current or future projects
• identify and train graduate assistants whose work is critical to the completion of a research project or successful course offering
• prepare the next generation of intellectual leaders in the disciplines and in society
• enjoy the personal and professional satisfaction inherent in mentoring relationships