Finding a Mentor and Creating a Capstone Committee

The Capstone Committee

The Capstone Project represents an inflection point in your advisement. When you start your Capstone, you build your own team of advisors in the form of the Capstone Committee. This committee comprises the following members:

• The Capstone Mentor: the person who helps design the project and provides most of the training. Should be a faculty member at a University or Museum.
• The Capstone Chair: an MHA faculty member who can provide feedback on the project and ensure that the project meets MHA requirements and deadlines. Your Chair can be the same as your First-Year advisor or a different MHA faculty member.
• Third Committee member: at least one additional member who can provide feedback on the capstone project, review written documents, and provide training as needed. Can be a senior student in a professional program, like Medical, Dental, or PT school, or a doctoral-level graduate program.

At least one committee member must be from outside the core MHA faculty.

Choose your Committee Wisely

All Committee members will grade your capstone project assignments and determine your final capstone project grade.

Once you have identified your Mentor and Capstone Chair, fill out the Capstone Authorization Packet and submit to your selected Canvas Site.

Identifying Potential Mentors

1. Attend the First-Year Seminar Series
2. Review Capstone Projects Highlights
3. Review Past Capstone Project Posters
4. Talk with your First-Year Advisor
5. Talk with MHA students currently working on their capstone projects
6. Search for interesting research on campus and cold-call (or email) potential mentors

Previous Capstone Projects

Word Cloud

Built from the Titles of Previous Capstone Reports.

Past Mentors

A Histogram of Different Capstone Mentors showing the number of Capstone Projects on which they served as the Mentor

Previous Chairs

A Histogram of MHA Faculty showing the number of Capstone Projects on which they served as the Chair