Faculty availability
Faculty members have an obligation to be available to each of their students for academic guidance.

faculty member as mentor
Although there are other offices to which a student may be directed for specialized counseling, the faculty member has a particular role as mentor which cannot be performed by others. This role may take at least six forms:

• advising the student with regard to the student’s work in classes taught by the faculty member;
  
• serving as a department or school advisor (and, in the case of liberal arts and sciences faculty, as humanities advisors to departments and schools) in the student’s major area to assist the student in setting academic goals;
  
• ensuring that Institute, department, and school requirements are understood and met by the student;
  
• ensuring that electives are planned to complement the student’s personal and career objectives;
  
• recognizing when the student needs professional assistance with problems of a personal nature or with academic skill deficiencies and directing the student to the appropriate office or person from whom such assistance is available;
  
• providing an expert professional resource in his or her field that can be consulted by students from the department or school and the Institute at large.