Discuss with your groupmates the issue of a good supervisor. You may use the expressions below.

Appropriate supervisor, experienced in the field of your research interests, to guide and advise you throughout your period of study, the responsibilities are shared between student and supervisor, crucial support of the supervisor, to design and carry out work on your thesis, procedures and regulations of writing and defending your thesis, to establishes a stimulating research environment, to provide training in research, to continuously monitor progress, to provide structured feedback, to remain aware of the student's situation and needs, to give plenty of encouragement, to boost one’s confidence, pertinent comments, to appreciate the time and effort, encouragement and support, high level of staff expertise, reputation and influence, to be especially beneficial, holistic and innovative approach.

Write an essay on:

· your ideas of a good supervisor

· your experience working with the supervisor

Usually your supervisor is a famous scholar and an expert in some field, he may have discovered an interesting phenomena or law. Try to find out about his scientific interests, his dissertation, and research. This will help you establish better working environment. You may use biographies of Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor Eglit, and Kermit L. Hall, the President of the University of Albany as models for describing expertise, research and academic career of your supervisor.

Profile: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.

He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.

Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macroeconomics and monetary theory, to trade theory and public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of R&D.

His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance.

Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has recently come out with a new book, The Roaring Nineties (W.W. Norton). His book Globalization and Its Discontents (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated into 28 languages and is an international bestseller.

Profile: Howard C. Eglit, Professor of Law

Professor Eglit’s scholarly interests are in the areas of law and aging. He works in the fields of employment discrimination, constitutional law, and remedies. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and several books, including a three-volume treatise entitled Age Discrimination (Florida University Press 2004).

Professor Eglit holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty, Professor Eglit served in several capacities, includingcounsel to the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and legal director of the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Heteaches undergraduate and graduate courses inConstitutional law to students from foreign legal backgrounds. Professor Eglit was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 2003 and at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1998. He has received fellowships from the Olin Foundation (for work on treaties and constitutional law) and the Rockefeller Foundation (for a book on the effects of globalization on American constitutional law).

Professor Eglit has served on numerous boards, including the Illinois chapter, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Illinois Division, American Civil Liberties Union. He also served as vice-president of Terra Nova Films and chaired the Highland Park Historic Preservation Commission. He is a member of the advisory committee for the Buehler Center on Aging, McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University. He served as general Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations.

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