Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty.

ABSTRACT: National efforts to address the diversity dilemma in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) often emphasize increasing numbers of historically underrepresented (HU) students and faculty, but fall short in instituting concrete changes for inclusion and belonging. Therefore, increasing the pool of senior faculty who wish to become guides and advocates for emerging scientists from HU populations is an essential step toward creating new pathways for their career advancement. As a step toward achieving this goal, we created a novel eight-hour intervention on Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM), a program of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) targeted to faculty and administrators. A previous report of surveys at the end of the CAM sessions revealed substantial awareness and

SUBMITTER: Womack VY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7413486 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature