Our goals are to:

 

1. Develop a culture of community responsibility for mentoring, both for junior faculty and graduate students

2. Implement a group mentoring program, host leadership lunches, and provide web resources for mentors/mentees, to ensure that no one falls through the cracks because of a poor mentor-mentee match (particularly an issue for women)

3. Establish a tradition of cross-gender mentoring (i.e. men and women both responsible for mentoring men and women) to ensure that a breadth of perspectives are available to junior faculty, to increase exposure of the more senior and accomplished women in the EE department, and to reinforce the notion of symmetry of roles

4. Determine additional needs of women (including research faculty) and ensure that these are covered in the mentoring program

5. The direct impact of the program is to improve mentoring to junior faculty and graduate students in EE, but with an emphasis on issues of importance to women. We anticipate that women will benefit more because of the larger gaps in information access and social networks that they encounter. However, the department culture as a whole will be positively impacted by changing the mentoring process from an individual orientation to one of community responsibility.

Program goals