Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students : a Research-Based Guide for Faculty and Administrators.
Packard, Becky Wai-Ling,
Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students : a Research-Based Guide for Faculty and Administrators. - First edition. - xiv, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.
Map the landscape, choose a focus -- Mentoring with intention -- What works (and why) during the transition to college -- What works (and why) during the transition to a STEM major -- What works (and why) during the transition to the workplace or graduate studies -- Difficult mentoring moments -- Conversations among colleagues.
Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented College Students is a step-by-step, research-based guide for higher education faculty and administrators who are charged with designing mentoring programs to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field of STEM mentoring, the book constitutes a virtual consultant that enables readers to diagnose the issues they face, identify priorities, and implement appropriate practices to achieve their goals.The book describes the real and perceived barriers that underrepresented students―to include women, students of color, transfer students, and first-generation college students―encounter when considering enrollment, or participating, in science courses; considers the issues they face at the various transitions in their education, from entering college to declaring a major and moving on to a profession; and sets out the range of mentoring options available to program designers.By posing key questions and using three running case illustrations of common dilemmas, the book walks readers through the process of matching the best design options with the particular needs and resources of their own department or campus. Intentionally brief and to the point, the book is nonetheless a comprehensive guide to the full range mentoring models and best practices, that also covers issues of institutional and departmental climate and teaching methods, and offers insider insights to help designers avoid pitfalls as they create effective, sustainable mentoring initiatives.This guide will assist administrators working on new initiatives to broaden access and improve persistence and graduation in their programs, as well as apply for research grants, by clarifying objectives and identifying the effective evidence-based practices to achieve them. It also provides common conversation-starters for departments to identify obstacles to enrollment and broaden participation.
9781620362969 1620362961 9781620362952 1620362953
2015022238
GBB5H1285 bnb
017634807 Uk
Mentoring in science--United States.
Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Minorities in science--United States.
Women in science--United States.
Mentoring in science.
Minorities in science.
Science--Study and teaching (Higher)
Women in science.
United States.
Q183.3.A1 / .P33 2016
507.1/173
Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students : a Research-Based Guide for Faculty and Administrators. - First edition. - xiv, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.
Map the landscape, choose a focus -- Mentoring with intention -- What works (and why) during the transition to college -- What works (and why) during the transition to a STEM major -- What works (and why) during the transition to the workplace or graduate studies -- Difficult mentoring moments -- Conversations among colleagues.
Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented College Students is a step-by-step, research-based guide for higher education faculty and administrators who are charged with designing mentoring programs to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field of STEM mentoring, the book constitutes a virtual consultant that enables readers to diagnose the issues they face, identify priorities, and implement appropriate practices to achieve their goals.The book describes the real and perceived barriers that underrepresented students―to include women, students of color, transfer students, and first-generation college students―encounter when considering enrollment, or participating, in science courses; considers the issues they face at the various transitions in their education, from entering college to declaring a major and moving on to a profession; and sets out the range of mentoring options available to program designers.By posing key questions and using three running case illustrations of common dilemmas, the book walks readers through the process of matching the best design options with the particular needs and resources of their own department or campus. Intentionally brief and to the point, the book is nonetheless a comprehensive guide to the full range mentoring models and best practices, that also covers issues of institutional and departmental climate and teaching methods, and offers insider insights to help designers avoid pitfalls as they create effective, sustainable mentoring initiatives.This guide will assist administrators working on new initiatives to broaden access and improve persistence and graduation in their programs, as well as apply for research grants, by clarifying objectives and identifying the effective evidence-based practices to achieve them. It also provides common conversation-starters for departments to identify obstacles to enrollment and broaden participation.
9781620362969 1620362961 9781620362952 1620362953
2015022238
GBB5H1285 bnb
017634807 Uk
Mentoring in science--United States.
Science--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Minorities in science--United States.
Women in science--United States.
Mentoring in science.
Minorities in science.
Science--Study and teaching (Higher)
Women in science.
United States.
Q183.3.A1 / .P33 2016
507.1/173