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It is Never a Straight Line: Engagement, Mentoring, and Networking:
With the evolution of mentoring practice, the term mentorship shifts focus away from a set of unidirectional actions of the mentors toward the mentoring relationships that are based on experiences across numerous approaches, structures, and contexts. This relationship-centric focus emphasizes mentoring processes and experiences in the context of a developmental partnership. A broad-based definition of mentoring relationships includes both the intense, lasting, reciprocal relationships that form between one mentor and one mentee and the increasingly recognized forms of group and peer relationships, all of which complement the critically formative relationships in research training. This will be an interactive workshop to discover how reflecting on your postdoctoral, graduate, and other experiences can be useful to your mentoring relationships and networking for career development.
Lois Calian Trautvetter is a professor and director of the Higher Education Administration and Policy program in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on students, postdocs, faculty, and improving postsecondary education through best practices in mentoring, recruitment, retention, and professional development. She has received grants from the NSF, Simons Foundation, Templeton Foundation, and Lilly Endowment, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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