Welcome to UM-Connect Mentoring!
The purpose of UM-Connect Mentoring is to improve social and professional connections to increase women faculty’s sense of community (i.e., decrease isolation) and prospects for professional advancement within their departments.
ASPIRED offers a peer mentoring experience for mid-level career women faculty, whereby STEM senior level faculty and administrators will serve as mentors and mid-level career faculty will serve as mentees. The training consists of a one-day workshop followed by a three-week online training with collaborative discussions and problem-based scenarios to socialize both the mentors and mentees to the peer mentoring process.
The training will be completed during the summer of 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years. After completing the training, the mentors and mentees will be assigned to peer-mentoring dyads or collective groups. A mentoring resource website will be developed through this mentoring program.
Selected mentors and mentee will need to be women (1) teaching in one of STEM degree programs at the university, (2) demonstrating need for support to career success, and (3) willing to complete a training program and meet bi-monthly during the academic year with a collective peer mentoring group.
Applications will be completed via this LINK. Notification of acceptance will be sent via email early in the Fall semester in 2021-2022.
We will kickoff the trainings with a STEM luncheon on November 5th, 2021.
STEM Networking Groups
ASPIRED offers a STEM networking group series featuring a different women leader who
talks about her STEM career path and the benefits and challenges of her position and
share strategies for success. Each group will involve 20-to-30-minute presentations
and a workshop to emphasize areas such as developing leadership skill; navigating
the social challenges of being URM women, sexual minority women, women with disabilities,
or women from other marginalized groups in STEM; successfully obtaining promotion
and tenure; and collaborating to develop competitive grants. These presentations will
be webcast live.
STEM Networking Group Recordings
Dr. Maria Hubbard (October 6, 2022)-Topic: Women in Leadership
For corresponding PowerPoint presentation, click here.