Timeline and Milestones
Note: ** indicates work to be done by hourly wage undergraduate and graduate students
Ongoing throughout academic year:
- Work with program coordinators and department chairs to recruit membership
- Plan virtual spring mentorship conference
- Host monthly mentorship network meetings (see dates and topics in table below)
- Pairs of incentivized mentors and mentees meet once a month for a minimum of one hour
- Collate mentorship resources and post to website **
- December 2020: Recruit mentors and mentees for 1-1 incentivized mentoring
- Distribute pre-survey for mentors/mentees
December 2020 - January 2021
- Distribute Qualtrics survey to collect data from UofM women+ members
- Populate queryable database from Qualtrics survey results **
- Conduct ethnographic interviews with academics who have created mentorship
networks**
February - April 2021:
- Write journal manuscript - best practices mentorship network creation (students will
be
included as co-authors)** - Submit mid-project report
April 2021:
- Host virtual conference (Date TBD)
- Conduct end-of-project surveys and focus groups to assess perceptions of resources,
events, and incentivized 1-1 mentoring ** - Distribute post-survey for mentors-mentees
- Submit final report to Division of Research and Innovation
Summer 2021
- Submit proposal to external funder
Mentorship Network Meetings and Topics | |
Month & Date | Topic |
January 29 | Academic Challenges in the Quarantine |
February 12 | Work-Life Balance |
February 26 | Time and Workflow Management |
March 12 | Writing Good Cover Letters |
March 26 | Tips for Publishing |
April 8 | Imposter Syndrome |
April 22 | MENtorship |
May TBD | Virtual mentorship conference |