In the interest of providing graduate students with information andadvice concerning their graduate careers, APSA has begun a series ofefforts to identify “good practices” or “best practices” withrespect to a number of aspects of graduate education. The thought isthat faculty, junior and senior, may serve as sources of usefulinformation that supplements what departments provide to their ownstudents, At a minimum, from these efforts, students would be ableto learn of a variety of perspectives, some of which might bedifferent from those to which they had already been exposed by theirown advisors and other faculty with whom they have studied.