A Mentoring Relationship Between a Faculty Member and a Student

A mentoring relationship between a faculty member and a student may be crossing the boundary into a problematic dual relationship when:

A) A faculty member shares his or her worries and frustrations with the tenure process at numerous times during the academic year in which the faculty member is a candidate for promotion
B) A faculty member recommends a doctoral dissertation topic to a student related to the ongoing research they have been conducting
C) A faculty member hires the son of the student in the mentoring relationship to do summer child care for his children after the student has graduated from the program.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.