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