Research Without Guidance: A Study of Academic Mentorship at Government College University.

Walk into any classroom at Government College University, and you'll find students eager to learn, ready to research, and hungry for guidance. Ask those same students if their teachers have shown them how to publish their work, and you'll hear a different story. It's a story of confusion, discouragement, and missed opportunities—a story that 87% of our respondents know all too well. This isn't just about statistics. It's about a 7th-semester Biotechnology student who has brilliant research ideas but doesn't know where to start. It's about those, who watched his teacher boast about publications for an entire lecture but never once offered to help students write their own. It's about the dozens of students who will graduate from GCU without ever submitting a manuscript, a preprint, or even a conference abstract—not because they lack talent, but because no one showed them the way.