Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing
Mentoring is an opportunity to give back, to advance the discipline by grooming the next generation of scholars and leaders. Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing can help you start and sustain a successful mentoring relationship. These resources are designed to help pre-tenure faculty women prepare for the next stage of their careers, and to help them look ahead to positions of accomplishment and influence.
Women in scientific disciplines face challenges that range from institutionalized bias to differences in communication styles and a lack of female role models. NCWIT's Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing is designed to address the challenges of the computer science faculty experience. When you are ready to mentor someone, Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing supports your efforts by supplying practical activities, resources, and templates you and your mentee can use right away.
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What's in the Box?
Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing includes:
- Mentoring-at-a-Glance:
This informational piece introduces the purpose and benefits of
mentoring faculty women, and describes the resource. Read this piece
for an overview and distribute it to others.
- Practical Guide: Describes uses of the Box components.
- Mentoring Basics Mentor's Guide:
Addresses challenges in computer science, describes the benefits of
mentoring, and advises on general principles of effective mentoring.
- Mentoring Basics Mentee's Guide: defines the mentoring relationship from the mentee's perspective.
- Set-the-Stage Template: Helps the mentor pair define its relationship and plan for the work ahead.
- Meeting Plan Template: Structures interactions and drives action between meetings.
- Activities Guide: Provides the practical advice and activities for faculty women in computer science.
- References & Resources: Lists citation sources for this Box, including journals, web resources, books, and interviews with experts.
Using Mentoring-in-a-Box: Women Faculty in Computing
Simply
"unpack" the box components and begin. Start with the Practical Guide
and follow steps that take you from identifying your mentee all the way
through celebrating her successes. If your institution has a formal
mentoring program, Faculty Mentoring-in-a-Box can complement the program and give you tools to make it even more effective.
Mentoring in a Box: Academic Women in Computing was produced thanks to contributions from the following people: Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Senior NCWIT Research Scientist; Jane Krauss, Education Consultant; Mary Frank Fox and Mary Jean Harrold of the Georgia Institute of Technology; Mary Lou Soffa, the University of Virginia; Carla Ellis, Duke University; Lisa Frehill, Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology; David Notkin of the University of Washington; Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island; Desh Ranjan, New Mexico State University; and reviewer members of NCWIT’s Academic Alliance.
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