It has opened so many doors for me, and built my confidence in networking in a competitive community. The WiMIR mentoring has empowered myself. Women in STEM are often unsure if it is okay to simultaneously feel assertive and vulnerable. I was given the opportunity to ask questions and prov...
Davis and Nakamura (2010, p. 1060) characterise ME as a “function of a relationship that rests upon a set of interactional foundations that allow a protégé to capitalize on the strengths of the mentor, and it facilitates behaviors that will enable the protégé to develop and internalize t...
This award will strengthen resources for musical composition and arranging programs for youth within a community of professional composers and teachers. The Vermont Arts Council was founded in 1964 on a simple and powerful premise: that the arts enrich lives, expand minds, and form a vital thread...
Recent research provides promising accounts of programs adopting a similar CNEP-IPT concept, which employ “systems of mentors” comprising “senior colleagues, teachers, peers, as well as junior colleagues and students” [7,29,60,89], demonstrating a high likelihood of program success, provided de...
We must stay current with pertinent accurate information that might affect us personally, but don’t overwhelm yourself readingeverythingwritten on the internet or listening to multiple “news” programs or scrolling through social media. Then there are our own financial, physical, relational, health...
This comes not only due to increasing hostility toward the “liberal conspiracy” of higher education, budget cuts across the board for humanities and music programs, and increasing corporatization of Universities, but also due to slowed (and perhaps even declining) progress for women’s and ...