IGE: Mentoring for Life: Enhancing STEM Graduate Student Well-Being

IGE：终身指导：增强 STEM 研究生的福祉

• 批准号: 1954776
• 负责人: Carmen McCallum
• 金额: $ 49.82万
• 依托单位: Eastern Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954776&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGE; Mentoring; Life; Enhancing; STEM

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines have a retention issue, especially for underrepresented graduate students. Although students leave for many reasons, one underlying cause is a lack of attention to mentoring and students’ well-being. Students who do not feel as if they belong are more likely to leave as are students who are unable to develop a trusting, supportive relationship with faculty. The loss of these graduate students represents a potential loss to future scientific capacity. This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to Eastern Michigan University will pilot a Mentoring Certificate program designed to expose STEM graduate students to evidence-based practices in mentoring and well-being. This work will pilot, test, and validate mentoring interventions grounded in models of graduate student socialization and socio-cognitive career theory, designed to address the multiple underlying causes of declining well-being, and simultaneously train graduate students to be effective mentors. The training of graduate students to mentor effectively will ensure sustainability as these students become faculty, supervisors, and mentors themselves.This project seeks to understand how are graduate student professional identity, career satisfaction, and sense of belonging in STEM impacted by a mentoring program designed around student well-being? Through interactive workshops, emotional well-being groups, and resource development graduate students will gain the tools necessary to: (1) successfully mentor diverse STEM students; (2) better manage their own emotional well-being; and (3) advocate for improved mentoring experiences within their own departments. STEM departments will have an opportunity to learn about the proposed graduate training certificate and reflect on ways in which mentor training and best practices can be integrated into departmental culture. An evaluation study will provide the project team with formative and summative feedback to inform their team processes and design of the intervention. Qualitative focus group data will be used to expand upon and clarify quantitative survey data. The evaluation of the Mentoring Certificate program will provide evidence for which aspects of the program are effective for enhancing graduate student well-being and success.The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科存在保留问题，特别是对于代表性不足的研究生而言。尽管学生出于多种原因离开，但一个根本原因是缺乏对心理和学生的福祉的关注。那些不觉得自己属于的学生更有可能离开，因为那些无法建立信任，支持教师关系的学生。这些研究生的丧失代表了未来科学能力的潜在损失。这项国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）授予东密歇根大学的奖项将试行一项指导证书计划，旨在使STEM研究生在心理和福祉方面揭示基于证据的实践。这项工作将试用，测试和验证基于研究生社会化和社会认知职业理论模型的心理干预措施，旨在解决福祉下降的多重基本原因，并简单地培训研究生成为有效的导师。随着这些学生成为教师，主管和导师的自己，对研究生进行有效的培训将确保可持续性。该项目试图了解研究生专业的职业身份，职业满意度和属于STEM中的属于围绕学生福祉的心理计划的归属感？通过互动研讨会，情感福祉团体和资源发展研究生将获得所需的工具：（1）成功的精神潜水员STEM学生； （2）更好地管理自己的情感幸福； （3）主张改善自己部门内的心理经历。 STEM部门将有机会了解拟议的研究生培训证书，并反思将心理培训和最佳实践融入部门文化的方式。一项评估研究将为项目团队提供形成性和总结性的反馈，以告知他们的团队流程和干预措施的设计。定性焦点小组数据将用于扩展和澄清定量调查数据。对指导证书计划的评估将为该计划的哪些方面有效地增强研究生的福祉和成功有效。研究生教育（IGE）计划的创新侧重于研究生教育研究。 IGE的目标是试点，测试和验证创新方法来研究生教育，并产生将这些方法转移到广播员社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来评估的。