ACADEMIC CULTUREFULBRIGHT GATEWAY

ORIENTATION PROGRAMSUMMER 2011

SUE FAERMANVICE PROVOST FOR UNDERGRADUATE

EDUCATION

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Academic Culture

In the Classroom

In Your Interactions with Faculty Advisors and Mentors

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Culture Defined5 a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior

that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group … c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization …

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way you perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.

Schein, E.H. Organizational Culture and Leadership, 4th ed.

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Dimensions of Societal Culture Power Distance IndexUncertainty Avoidance IndexIndividualism – CollectivismMasculinity – FemininityLong- vs. Short-term Orientation

Hofstede, Geert (2001) Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations

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Impact of Societal Culture on Organizational Culture

Behavior and Artifacts ValuesAssumptions and Beliefs

Schein, Edgar (2010) Organizational Culture and Leadership

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Academic Culture in Your Classes Learn from the Syllabus

Class Participation Use of Electronic Devices

LaptopsCell phones and PDAs

Other policies, e.g., study groups and collaborative learning

Use Your Professors’ Office Hours

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Academic Culture outside Your Classes

Understanding Departmental Expectations (“learning the ropes”)

Identifying and Communicating with Advisors and Mentors (not all relationships are created equally)

Making Decisions about Your Career

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Establishing an Effective Relationship with a Mentor

Find someone with same/similar academic interests

Discuss expectations regarding your academic career

Clarify appropriate times and means of communication

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Resourceso Departmental Degree Manuals o Graduate Student Officeso University-level Writing Centerso University-level Ombudspeopleo http://www.gradresources.org/articles/prof

_grad.shtmlo http://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/

publications/mentoring.pdf