How To Mentor Graduate Students (MGS) Spring 2025

Course Description:

The academic and professional success of underrepresented students has been strongly linked to mentorship (Secules, Gupta, Elby & Tanu, 2018). This course is designed to increase the importance and knowledge of culturally responsive mentoring in future faculty. Course participants will be introduced to best practices in mentoring graduate students, within the context of teaching, research, and professional development.Instructor -- Dr. Martha Jallim Hall is a dynamic administrator with over 20 years of progressive leadership, management, and teaching experience at the university level. After earning her Ed.D. from The George Washington University, she has continued to work in the educational arena her entire professional career. Her teaching career spans nationally and internationally with diverse experiences in a multicultural world, and whose experiences include teaching, administration, student support services, academic support services, international programs and counselor education.

Dr. Jallim Hall is the current Chair of Hampton University’s Department of Education and Coordinator of the PhD in Educational Management. As the former Department Chair of Counseling, Dr. Jallim Hall co-chaired the revision and expansion of the counseling program and the development of a new concentration in Pastoral Counseling, the Specialist in Education degree program, and the Ph.D. in Counseling and Supervision. In her roles as Assistant to the Provost at Hampton University, Dr. Jallim Hall was the primary point of contact for coordinating the collection and delegation of faculty credentials, applicable documentation, developed, implemented, and maintained appropriate processes and systems to meet SACSCOC faculty credential requirements.