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New MentorNet program unites academics.(NEWSWATCH)(Academic Career program)
Flush from its success since 1997 in linking students in science and engineering to their seniors working in business and industry via email mentoring, MentorNet is now turning its focus to within the academic community.
In its 2003 pilot year, MentorNet's new Academic Career program united 49 women graduate students, post docs and early career faculty with tenured faculty nationwide for an eight-month relationship. The senior academics provide advice, support, encouragement, strategies and info to their young counterparts nationwide.
Now rolled out for second year, the program is facing its biggest challenge: recruiting tenured faculty to volunteer as mentors. Using the Internet, the effort can take as little as 20 minutes a week, but it can make a great difference in helping grad students and junior faculty stay in their fields and positions.
Mentors characterize their experience as both educational and fulfilling. They benefit from fresh perspectives and an opportunity to provide women with access to networks otherwise unavailable to them.
Female professionals who volunteer as mentors provide students and new faculty with added support that promotes a diversified, expanded and talented academic workforce in engineering and sciences.
Dr. Mary Behan, an academic career e-mentor in the program, stressed the importance of mentoring. "I see it as critical to success in academia." Having a mentor in another school or ...
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