Collaboration |  | Professional life in serious jeopardy... |
|  |  | Participating in collaborative research has potential benefits that include bringing the expertise and talents of different researchers to a shared project. However, without the establishment of clear guidelines and strong lines of communication such arrangements can be potentially disastrous. The assistant professor experienced this directly. She does have the potential to overcome the immediate problems by explaining her dilemma both to her contact at the consortium, regarding the collaborative arrangement, and to her graduate student. She might suggest that the consortium could benefit from a set of working guidelines and even offer to create a draft. She can indicate that much of her doctoral student’s work was completed prior to her involvement in the consortium. Finally, in her role as a mentor she can share with her doctoral student her experiences with this collaborative arrangement to prepare him for such a possibility in his future.