Setting Expectations and Managing Conflict between Graduate Students and Faculty
The Graduate School at Michigan State University developed a workshop in the 1990s to train graduate students and faculty members on how to use an interest-based approach to set expectations jointly and manage conflicts germane to faculty-student interactions. Since 1996, these workshops have been offered regularly at MSU, and upon request by a variety of other institutions and national conferences. As a contribution to the Michigan AGEP Alliance, MSU opens this workshop to graduate students and faculty members from the four Alliance institutions and features the workshop at the multi-university Alliance conferences. A “train-the-trainer” variation of the program is also available, and plans are under discussion for offering it to faculty members and administrators from the other three institutions, and for using technology for wider dissemination of the program.
