UPDATE: we are now at waitlist/to be contacted for future courses only. Sorry!
You are still welcome to send me an email so I can put you on a future contact/first dibs list.
We have only a few spots left in the course. To apply, send me an email at [email protected] explaining why you would like to take this course.
Some preference for non-North-America (as most attendees so far are from there) and for men (so far it is 1/4 men, 3/4 women... the first course was 2/19 men!), but in general, first come first served.
Also, men PIs: I am sure you also can improve your mentoring!
We will also open a waitlist for future iterations.
Attendees commit to:
- Attend 7 biweekly sessions: Mondays at 11:30-1pm Pacific/2:30-4pm Eastern/20:30-22:00 European time on Feb 6, 21 (Tuesday, this once), March 6, 20, April 3, 17, May 1st (or, if that is a holiday in Europe, we can do May 2nd that week)
- Complete reading in advance of sessions, and homework after sessions. Homework includes practicing skills learned with your trainees.
- Attend 12 weekly mentoring circles (time and date TBD among your group of 4) to discuss the homework
ANNOUNCING: 🎉🎉🎉Spring 2023 Mentoring Best Practices course! 🎉🎉🎉
This is a free course, for academic faculty ONLY
You need to be leading a research lab where you mentor students and/or postdocs.
The course will be conducted online (zoom) through 7 biweekly 90-minute class sessions (see dates below), and weekly 45-min (or biweekly 90-min) “mentoring circles” — you and three colleagues discuss your own mentoring experiences as they relate to the course curriculum.
RT @Yael
Senior faculty are incredibly powerful. In a two-page tenure letter, they can make or break a career. This power has an outsized impact on scholars with marginalized identities, such as Black academics, who are promoted with tenure at lower rates (1/2)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tera_levin/status/1611385646345592836
“RT @[email protected] Senior faculty are incredibly powerful. In a two-page tenure letter, they can make or break a career. This power has an outsized impact on scholars with marginalized identities, such as Black academics, who are promoted with tenure at lower rates (1/2)”
This is a really thoughtful guide to writing tenure letters.
"Here we put forth a set of recommendations for writing inclusive, anti-racist, tenure letters that allow letter-writers to counteract [factors that lead to lower tenure rates for scholars of color] by adopting an expansive view of how scholars contribute to academia, and by promoting the academic culture we all want to support"
by a group including @Yael
via @sorelle
Reviewer: “1. what you say is wrong; 2. but if it is true, everyone already knows it; and 3. in any case, you did not prove it sufficiently well as you only showed it with one (large) experiment”
Kids, don't be this Reviewer.
Our suggestions in a nutshell. This is meant as a non-exhaustive list, and an ongoing conversation. Please add your additions and thoughts!
with Pearis Bellamy, Christy Haynes, Laura Martin, Scott Mirabile, Jackie Rose & Rachel Ross, all of which I am not sure are on Mastodon...
Seda Gürses
Miriam B Goodman
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
Maggie