Checklist for my commitments to graduate students as an advisor

• I commit to spend time with graduate students to provide financial, moral, and academic support throughout the time of the degree.
• I commit to patiently work with students who have widely varying backgrounds on a student-by-student basis and provide the individual attention required to make each student an expert in the field.
• I commit to work with each student such that by the time the student graduates, s/he will be confident, not only of her/his thesis work, but of being able to solve any problem given the time and resources.
• I commit to work with each student such that by the time the student graduates, s/he will be capable of finding any job (academic, or industrial) of their liking.
• I commit to work with each student such that he/she will:
• Be able to intelligently understand any problem
• Be able to find all the background information about the particular problem
• Be able to intelligently sort through the piles of information (to recognize the important material), such that time is not wasted on trivial or unimportant material
• Be confident that all the important factors, constraints, and issues are accounted for
• Be able to formulate a solution to the problem that is acceptable to society
• Be able to prove that the solution is correct (if it is a research problem then also one should be able to prove that the solution is new and innovative; not just a reinvention of the wheel)
• Be able to clearly state the pros and cons of the solution
• Be able to clearly communicate the results to peers