Advisor Workshops

Dr. Sonja Foss and Dr. William Waters offer workshops for dissertation and thesis advisors. These are three-hour workshops held on your own campus. They are designed to help advisors develop productive relationships with doctoral and master's advisees that result in high-quality dissertations and theses completed in a timely manner.

The objectives for the workshops are:

• To address myths and misconceptions that advisors and their students are likely to hold about the dissertation/thesis process.

• To familiarize advisors with a framework of dissertation/thesis advising that provides reasonable expectations for the process.

• To facilitate advisors' understanding of and sensitivity to students' perspectives in the dissertation/thesis process.

• To offer advisors means by which they and their advisees can more closely share expectations for and conceptions of the dissertation/thesis.

• To introduce advisors to a process they can use to help students conceptualize their dissertations/theses so that both advisors and advisees have a clear and manageable road map for the project.

• To introduce advisors to a system of managing literature and qualitative data that they can teach their advisees that allows students to handle large amounts of data efficiently and that produces significant insights.

For more information on workshops for advisors, contact Dr. Foss at: Sonja.Foss@ucdenver.edu.