A model of mentorship for students from historically underrepresented groups in STEM
Fuente:
arXiv
Enregistré dans:
| Auteurs principaux: | , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Preprint |
| Publié: |
2022
|
| Sujets: | |
| Accès en ligne: | |
| Tags: |
Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
|
| _version_ | 1866909502446501888 |
|---|---|
| author | Wimberly, M. K. Rodriguez Rudolph, Alexander L. Hood, Carol Scherr, Rachel E. Pfund, Christine |
| author_facet | Wimberly, M. K. Rodriguez Rudolph, Alexander L. Hood, Carol Scherr, Rachel E. Pfund, Christine |
| contents | Mentorship is critical to student academic success and persistence, especially for students from historically underrepresented (HU) groups. In a program designed to support the academic success of HU undergraduates in STEM who wish to pursue a PhD in those fields, students experience comprehensive support including financial aid, highly-engaged mentoring, dual faculty mentorship, professional development workshops, and summer research experiences. Scholars in this program, the Cal-Bridge program, consistently report that faculty mentorship is the most impactful feature. While mentorship was rated highly, preliminary evaluation indicated an early deficit in a sense of community among scholars. In response, faculty professional development and support for peer networking were implemented to expand and enhance the relationships that support scholar success. Here we present a promising multifaceted model of mentorship that can support the academic success of HU undergraduates. |
| format | Preprint |
| id |
arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2209_03395 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| record_format | arxiv |
| spellingShingle | A model of mentorship for students from historically underrepresented groups in STEM Wimberly, M. K. Rodriguez Rudolph, Alexander L. Hood, Carol Scherr, Rachel E. Pfund, Christine Physics Education Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Mentorship is critical to student academic success and persistence, especially for students from historically underrepresented (HU) groups. In a program designed to support the academic success of HU undergraduates in STEM who wish to pursue a PhD in those fields, students experience comprehensive support including financial aid, highly-engaged mentoring, dual faculty mentorship, professional development workshops, and summer research experiences. Scholars in this program, the Cal-Bridge program, consistently report that faculty mentorship is the most impactful feature. While mentorship was rated highly, preliminary evaluation indicated an early deficit in a sense of community among scholars. In response, faculty professional development and support for peer networking were implemented to expand and enhance the relationships that support scholar success. Here we present a promising multifaceted model of mentorship that can support the academic success of HU undergraduates. |
| title | A model of mentorship for students from historically underrepresented groups in STEM |
| topic | Physics Education Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03395 |