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Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
This guide—intended for faculty members, teachers, administrators, and others who advise and mentor students of science and engineering—attempts to summarize features that are common to successful mentoring relationships. Its goal is to encourage mentoring habits that are in the best interests of both parties to the relationship. While this guide is meant for mentoring students in science and engineering the majority of it is widely applicable to mentoring in any field. It is jointly produced by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/mentor/
AWIS: Association for Women in Science
The Association for Women in Science is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. Its web site offers information about networking, mentoring, career and skill development, and job listings.
http://www.awis.org/index.html
At Cross Purposes: What the experiences of doctoral students reveal about doctoral education. By: Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore. January, 2001. A report prepared for The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA.
“At Cross Purposes” is a summary report based on The Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation, a national survey of doctoral students intended to provide a snapshot of their experiences and goals. Over 4,000 students completed the 20-page survey. These students were from 27 selected universities, one cross-institutional program (The Compact for Faculty Diversity), and represented 11 arts and sciences disciplines.
http://www.phd-survey.org/ (for the report, see http://www.phd-survey.org/report%20final.pdf)
The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
The Mentor is a free electronic publication about academic advising in higher education. The goal of this journal (available only on the Web) is to provide a mechanism for the rapid dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing discourse about advising issues. Toward this goal, articles in the journal are published continuously in a
current issue in progress.
http://www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/
Academic Careers Online
Academic Careers Online includes faculty, teacher, research, post doc, adjunct, library, administrative and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, research institutes, and schools around the world.
http://www.academiccareers.com/
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
For hundreds of different types of jobs—such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse—the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions. In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more.
Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/programs/index.asp?key=29
The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) examines the character of the doctorate and engages with departments committed to restructuring their doctoral programs to better prepare graduates for research and employment. A conceptual analysis of doctoral education, design experiments in departments, and research and dissemination are the main focus of the CID study. Six disciplines are being studied: chemistry, education (educational psychology and curriculum and instruction), English, history, mathematics, and neuroscience.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Responsive PhD initiative
http://www.woodrow.org/newsroom/releases/responsive_phd.html
Ten major universities will join with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to provide a richer purpose and a richer population for PhD education in the United States. The Responsive PhD will seek to improve the social impact of advanced learning by turning the findings of several recent studies of doctoral education into action.
The Ph.D. Completion Project
http://www.phdcompletion.org/
The Ph.D. Completion Project is a three-year, grant-funded project that addresses the issues surrounding Ph.D. completion and attrition.
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