Equity-Minded Mentoring
Certificate Program

About the Program

Are you a graduate student or postdoc in a STEM or Social Sciences field who is interested in refining your mentorship skills to build inclusive, supportive research environments? If so, consider participating in the TLC’s Equity-Minded Mentoring Certificate Program. In this program, you and your colleagues will meet bi-weekly (5 sessions total) during Winter quarter to explore and practice evidence-based strategies that have been shown to support underrepresented students in research settings, particularly those from racially minoritized groups, including:

• Establishing clear expectations for the mentoring relationship;
• Communicating effectively and with attention to how different life experiences, identities, and positions of power shape participation in and experiences in STEM and Social Sciences fields;
• Promoting students’ sense of belonging and research identities.

In between our bi-weekly meetings, you will have the opportunity to engage with recent literature on equitable mentoring, draft your own mentoring philosophy, and engage in thoughtful peer review of your colleagues’ mentoring philosophies. 

Join us if you’d like to be part of a new generation of researchers committed to changing research culture through equity-minded mentoring!

Participants commit to attending the entire series of workshops. With the support of the program facilitators and their peers, participants implement new mentoring strategies and prepare materials that are relevant to their current and future teaching and mentoring contexts and that are useful in the development of a teaching/mentoring portfolio. Upon completion of the workshops, graduate students and postdocs receive a professional development certificate indicating their successful completion of the learning goals and activities of the program.