With Undergraduate Research projects underway this semester, student researchers find support in the workshops offered and the guidance of their research mentors.
If you’re interested in becoming a mentor, you can add your name and information about your research to the list of mentors interested in supporting student research projects.
This spotlight shines on the recently released second edition of City Tech’s Undergraduate Research Committee’s mentoring handbook, A Handbook on Mentoring Students in Undergraduate Research: Proven Strategies for Success.
The purpose of the Handbook is to:
- Describe the concepts and benefits of mentoring;
- Describe the phases of the mentoring relationship;
- Define the roles of the faculty mentor and undergraduate student mentee;
- Provide strategies for becoming an effective mentor;
- Provide strategies for becoming a successful mentee;
- Provide tools to help the faculty mentor manage the mentor-mentee relationship; and
- Provide mentoring resources and references.
The second edition of the Handbook is an open educational resource in Pressbooks, allowing for adaption by other undergraduate research programs and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is entirely free of charge to all users.
The book can be read online and downloaded as print pdf, digital pdf, and epub (requires Adobe Digital Editions) formats.
The Undergraduate Research Committee, which collaborated to compose the Handbook, would appreciate learning more both about how other undergraduate research programs have adapted this book and how faculty mentors here at City Tech are using the it to support their mentorship–please share feedback as you use or share the Handbook.
Photo credit: “Learn to Fly” by Thomas Hawk via Flickr under the license CC BY-NC 2.0.
