Equity-Minded Mentoring
Certificate Program

About the Program

Are you a graduate student in a STEM field who is interested in developing mentorship skills to build inclusive, supportive research environments? If so, consider participating in the TLC’s Equity-Minded Mentoring for Graduate Students Certificate Program. In this program, you and your colleagues will meet biweekly (5 sessions total) during Winter Quarter to explore and practice strategies known from research to support underrepresented students in STEM, particularly those from racially minoritized groups, including:

• establishing and co-creating 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 fields; and
• promoting students’ sense of belonging and science identities

In between our biweekly meetings, you will have the opportunity to engage with brief readings and draft your own mentoring philosophy. 

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 and, with the support of the program facilitator and their peers, implementing new mentoring strategies and preparing materials that are relevant to their current and future teaching and mentoring contexts and that are useful in the development of a teaching portfolio. Upon completion of the workshops, graduate students receive a professional development certificate indicating their successful participation.