Mentoring and Networking Workshop for Junior Women Faculty in the Big 10

工程学的初级女性教员几乎没有机会建立网络，培养同伴指导关系，并与其他女性工程学教员互动，特别是与女性榜样互动。在将初级女性教员与高级女性导师联系起来方面存在困难，这是导致女性在工程系中代表性不足的原因之一。拟议的助理教授研讨会旨在为他们提供专业技能，帮助他们成为成功的教职员工，并为他们提供跨机构指导和专业合作的机会，以应对孤立和缺乏网络机会。这个工作坊的目标是加强十大工程系初级女性教员的专业技能和人脉。使用的方法将包括提供核心技能(谈判、电梯演讲、管理技能)的教员工具箱课程，旨在培养同伴指导技能的活动，以及专业教练课程。一位主旨演讲者和一次与十大商学院院长的小组会议将为与会者提供高级行政领导人的观点。此外，一个小组将在会议期间的一次会议上讨论种族和性别的交叉问题。参加的资深女性导师还将受益于额外的指导培训、指导经验和发展自己的研究网络。

Very few opportunities exist for junior women faculty in engineering to network, foster peer mentoring relationships, and interact with other female engineering faculty, particularly with female role models. The difficulty in connecting junior women faculty with senior women mentors contributes to under-representation of women in engineering faculty. The proposed workshop for assistant professors is designed to provide them with professional skills that will help them be successful faculty members and give them opportunities for mentorship and professional collaborations across institutions to counter isolation and lack of networking opportunities. The goal of this workshop is to enhance the professional skills and network of junior women faculty in engineering departments in the Big 10+. Methods used will include faculty toolbox sessions to provide core skills (negotiation, elevator pitch, management skills), activities designed to build peer-mentoring skills, and a professional coaching session. A keynote speaker and a panel session with deans from the Big 10+ will provide participants the perspectives of senior administrative leaders. In addition, a panel will address the intersection of race and gender in a session during the meeting. The senior women mentors who attend will also benefit from additional mentoring training, mentoring experience, and development of their own research networks.