Mentoring Projects

• Association for Women in Science Mentoring Project

  Mentoring Means Future Scientists: A Guide to Developing Mentoring Programs Based on the AWIS Mentoring Project reports the results of the three-year AWIS project, highlighting what did and did not work and giving suggestions for successful mentoring programs. An extensive bibliography on the topic of women in science and mentoring is also included. $14.50 for AWIS members, $17.50 for non-members. Prepayment required.

  A Hand Up: Women Mentoring Women in Science , 1993.

  Contact: AWIS, Suite 820, 1522 K Street, Washington, DC 20005.

• Briefs on Mentoring

  For educators, policymakers, and the general public. Available for $.48 by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Briefs on Mentoring, Box 40, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.

• Computing Research Association Bibliography of Mentoring Information

• CRA Mentoring Workshops

  Two more of the very successful CRA Workshops on Academic Careers for Women in Computer Science are being offered this year. These workshop bring women just starting their academic careers -- either advanced graduate students or newly hired faculty -- together with more established researchers. The more senior women serve as panelists, giving information and advice on many aspects of academic careers. Topics include the tenure decision, building a research program, teaching, getting a job, first year surprises, writing a grant proposal, networking, the perspective from the smaller schools, time management, and balancing a career with a family.

  Each of the workshops is associated with a major conference; the first is a short version to be held in conjunction with the ACM Computer Science Conference and the second is a much longer, 1 1/2 day version, to be held in conjunction with the Federated Computing Research Conference. Travel grants supported by the National Science Foundation are available for the FCRC version.

  For further information and applications for travel grants (FCRC only), contact Jan Cuny (cuny@cs.uoregon.edu).

  ACM COMPUTER SCIENCE CONFERENCE '96

  Philadelphia, PA
  CRA Workshop, Date: Feb 19
  10:30am-12:00pm and 2:00pm-3:00pm
  Panelists
  • Shiela Castaneda, Clarke College
  • Janice E. Cuny, University of Oregon
  • Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University
  • Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh
  For further information on CSC and registration, see http://www.acm.org/conferences/computing_week/cw96/csc

  FEDERATED COMPUTING RESEARCH CONFERENCE '96

  Philadelphia, PA
  CRA Workshop, Date: May 20 and 21
  Monday 8:15am-8:00pm, Tuesday 8:30am-12:30pm
  Panelists
  • Ruzena Bajcsy, University of Pennsylvania
  • Francine Berman, University of California at San Diego
  • Carla Brodley, Purdue University
  • Sheila Castaneda, Clarke College
  • Janice Cuny, University of Oregon
  • Susan Eggers, University of Washington
  • Joan Fiegenbaum, AT\&T
  • Joan Francioni, University of Southwestern Louisiana
  • Helen Gill, National Science Foundation
  • Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University
  • Eileen Kraemer, Washington University
  • Nancy Leveson, University of Washington
  • Dian Lopez, University of Minnesota at Morris
  • Donna Reese, Mississippi State University
  • Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin
  • Caroline Wardle, National Science Foundation
  For further information on FCRC and registration, see http://www.acm.org/conferences/fcrc

• Computing Research Association Distributed Mentor Project

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Computing Research Association (CRA) $530,000 for continued support of a distributed mentor project for undergraduate females in computer science and computer engineering (CS&E). The intent of the program is to increase the number of women entering graduate school in CS&E by involving them in research at a university with a female mentor. Because of the limited number of female researchers in CS&E who can serve as role models and mentors, we feel the undergraduates should be brought directly to the professors for a summer of research. Students will be involved in research and will also learn how a research university operates, meet graduate students and professors, and get a chance to observe a successful female researcher up close.

  Deadline: Feb. 1

  Extended Deadline: Feb. 9, 1996

  Electronic submissions are encouraged: cra-student@cs.wisc.edu

  Anne Condon / Computer Sciences Department / University of Wisconsin / Madison, WI 53706, USA
  Phone: (608) 262-3158
  Fax: (608) 262-9777

  Reference: J. O'Rourke, Mentor Project Targets Female Undergrads, Computing Research News, Vol. 5, No. 4, Sept. 1993, pp. 3-5.

• Mentoring Project of ACM Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities

• CSC & SIGCSE Technical Symposium Panel on Mentoring

  Improving Mentoring for Women in Computer Science Fields -- Notes of panel held Feb. 18, 1993 in Indianapolis, IN,

  Version March 30, 1993.

• Electronic Emissary Project

  The Electronic Emissary Project is a scientist-student email-conducted mentoring program, based at the U. of Texas at Austin. The project draws together pre-college students, their teachers, and subject-matter experts (SME's) electronically through the Internet, helping them to create exchanges focussed on the students' learning in the SMEs' disciplines.
  Judi Harris, Electronic Emissary Project Director / U. of Texas at Austin & Texas Center for Educational Technology / jb.harris@tenet.edu

• Electronic Mentoring

  Ann Gibbons. Creative Solutions: Electronic Mentoring. Women in Science, Science, Vol. 255, March 13, 1992, p. 1369. (Description of the Systers network & its role in electronic mentoring.)

• Mentoring programs for Women in CS: Data Base

  A data base of mentoring programs for women in computer science is available by email from Robert Roos and Smith College. In addition, information on mentor programs that can be included in the next revision is requested.
  Robert Roos / Department of Computer Science / Smith College / Northampton MA 01063.
  Internet: roos@cs.smith.edu

• "The Minnesota 100" Mentoring Project

• Project on the Status and Education of Women Mentoring Report

  Roberta Hall and Bernice Sandler, Academic Mentoring for Women Students and Faculty: A New Look at an Old Way to Get Ahead. Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges, (1818 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009, 202-387-1300), 1983.

• U.S. Department of Education Mentoring Report

  Hand in Hand: Mentoring Young Women. Women's Educational Equity Act Program, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1988.

• University of Minnesota Coalition of Women Graduate Students Mentoring Report

  Coalition of Women Graduate Students. Improving the Climate for Women Graduate Students through Quality Mentoring at the University of Minnesota. Presented to Dr. Anne Peterson, Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice President of Research, UMN, October 1993. (Recommendations on quality mentoring.)

• Women in Engineering Mentoring Program at the University of Washington, Seattle

  Suzanne Brainard, Director

• Women in Multimedia: Women Mentoring Women

  An online mentoring program for and by women in the multimedia industry and education.

• Women into Science and Technology (WIST)

  Women into Science and Technology (WIST) project aims to attract and retain women in mathematics and science courses and careers through a multi-level activity and mentoring program. WIST involves and connect women at many stages: industry scientists, Kean College science faculty, Kean College science students, high school teachers and high school students. Women act as mentors and mentees through a variety of activities. The project includes a hands-on career activity day at Kean College for ninth grade girls, ongoing mentoring and discussions at the high schools and a network of female undergraduates, industrial scientists and faculty members.

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