Research mentor training (RMT) is an opportunity for mentors to improve their mentoring practice, whether they are experienced or new to mentoring students.
CTLM can help you identify campus resources, offer training for faculty and academic staff in your unit, or connect you to other campus units that offer training for your discipline.
Why RMT?
- Benefits mentors at any career stage (early, mid, or senior)
- Creates space to critically (re)consider mentoring practices to meet mentees where they are
- Helps mentors to be more efficient and effective, meaning less time-on-task and more time for research, teaching, etc.
How can CTLM help your department?
Coordination
- Serve as a clearinghouse for information regarding RMT on campus and nationally
- Offer referrals to other campus units providing RMT (e.g. WISCIENCE for STEM-focused RMT, the Delta Program for graduate student/postdoc-facing RMT, etc.) when the discipline/area of focus is beyond CTLM’s scope of expertise
- Liaise between school/college/divisional leaders to strategize regarding demand and opportunities for RMT programming
Consulting
- Work with you to explore RMT options and find the best format for your particular community
- Collaboratively develop short-, medium- and long-term plans for delivering RMT, whether directly supported by CTLM or managed “in-house” by the host school/college, division, or department
- Assist in identifying faculty co-facilitators and maintaining a sustainable facilitator pool
Customized training
- Develop custom, co-facilitated workshops (in partnership with faculty/academic staff in host unit) based on the Entering Mentoring curriculum. Workshops can be done in smaller, thematic units (1~4 hours at 1+ hour per theme) or as single sessions (~8 hours).
- Onboard prospective co-facilitators from your department
CTLM’s focus areas
- Emphasis on directly supporting research mentoring in the social sciences, humanities, and arts across campus
- Primarily serve faculty and academic staff who supervise undergraduate and/or graduate research
- Work with leadership, faculty, and academic staff at the school/college, divisional, and departmental levels
Meet our coordinator
Jeffrey C. Guarneri
Position title: Research Mentor Training Coordinator
RMT at UW-Madison
- CTLM coordinates between and is one of several centers of excellence for RMT on campus
- Other centers, each with their own specific audiences, include WISCIENCE, the Delta Program, and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. The Graduate School offers mentorship resources for graduate students.
- Training is generally based on Entering Mentoring, a competency-based curriculum
- Themes include aligning expectations; promoting professional development; maintaining effective communication; addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion; assessing understanding; fostering independence; cultivating ethical behavior; and articulating your mentoring philosophy and plan
- Adaptations of curriculum available for STEM, social sciences, and humanities