MPWG: Training Mentors: A Transportable Model to Improve Retention of Women in Science and Engineering

Brainard 9553430辅导计划虽然定义宽松，但已成为广受欢迎的全国性“灵丹妙药”，解决了学术和企业环境中科学和工程领域的女性和少数族裔的招聘和留住问题。该项目的目标是通过培训改善目前指导方案的做法，从而提高攻读工程学本科生和研究生学位的女性的保留率。这一努力建立在威斯康星大学成功的WIE本科生指导计划的基础上。该项目建议：将现有的努力发展和正式化为针对工程领域女性的全面、独立的指导培训计划；在两个机构的本科生和研究生、教员以及专业科学家和工程师中测试该计划，以确定将该模式转移到其他机构的可行性；以及在全国范围内打包和传播指导培训计划。该计划将侧重于以学习者为中心的强化培训，内容包括如何成为导师和如何成为被辅导者，并为学生、教师和其他专业人员提供单独的手册。研究生将被添加到目标学生人口中。该计划将根据试点测试的结果进行修改。一名外部评估员将对这一努力进行评估。***

Brainard 9553430 Mentoring programs, albeit loosely defined, have become a popular national "cure-all" for recruitment and retention issues for women and minorities in science and engineering in both academic and corporate environments. The goal of this project is to enhance retention rates of females pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering by improving the current practices of mentoring programs through training. The effort builds upon the successful WIE Undergraduate Mentoring Program at the UW. The project proposes: to develop and formalize the existing effort into a comprehensive, stand-alone Mentoring Training Program for women in engineering; to test the program on undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and professional scientists and engineers at two institutions to determine the feasibility of transferring the model to other institutions; and to package and disseminate the Mentoring Training Program nationally. The program will focus upon intensive learner-centered training on how to be a mentor and how to be a mentee, with separate manuals for students, faculty, and other professionals. Graduate students will be added to the student population targeted. The program will be modified based on findings from pilot testing. An external evaluator will evaluate the effort. ***