Work in progress — Exploring the evolution of the mentoring relationship in a summer undergraduate research program

The mentoring relationship is an important and crucial aspect in the academic and professional development of both mentor and protégé. Although the characteristics of positive mentoring relationships have been identified, there is little prior research in assessing the relationship between undergraduate researchers and their graduate student mentors. We present a document analysis of the reflective journals and mentoring philosophy statements of four graduate student mentors of undergraduate researchers in a summer research program. The preliminary results show that mentors and students can have mismatched expectations, and that as the mentoring relationship evolves, the roles of the mentor and student also evolve. We also present a mentoring model grounded in the data.