ED23A:
Mentoring the Whole Student: Strategies for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) II


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Session ID#: 61657

Session Description:
Research internships rely heavily on the efforts of scientific mentors to guide undergraduates through their research challenges and often take on additional supportive roles. In this session, speakers will present on successful mentoring structures, strategies for preparing mentors, and creating supportive environments that allow student interns to succeed. Coaching students to find multiple mentors who fulfill different roles is one strategy that leads to greater support and can alleviate the burden on the primary advisor by sharing the load with peers, friends, colleagues, and family. This session will explore why creating a supportive culture of mentoring for undergraduate student interns is important, and strategies that have been successful. Presentations that address the mentoring of students from a broad range of backgrounds are encouraged. Short talks will be followed by a discussion with the audience and speakers.
Primary Convener:  Valerie Sloan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education & Outreach, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca Haacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Melissa A Burt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Valerie Sloan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education & Outreach, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Valerie Sloan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education & Outreach, Boulder, United States and Rebecca Haacker, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education, Engagement & Early Career Development, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Valerie Sloan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education & Outreach, Boulder, United States
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, LEVERAGING PASSION, AND IDENTIFYING CAREER GOALS: SUPPORTING STUDENT SCHOLARS THROUGH THE CHALLENGES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH IN BELIZE (461271)
Christy C. Visaggi1, Timothy Hawthorne2, Hannah Torres3, Dr. Lain Graham, PhD4, Christine Munisteri5, Nick Altizer2, Katerina Brandt6, Christopher L. Atchison7 and Olga Jarrett8, (1)Georgia State University, Geosciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Sociology, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Political Science and Geography, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)University of Central Florida, Sociology, Orlando, United States, (5)Skidmore College, Environmental Studies, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, (6)Rutgers University, Geography, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (7)University of Cincinnati, School of Education and Department of Geology, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (8)Georgia State University, College of Education and Human Development, Atlanta, United States
NCAS-M Experiential Training Program for Rising Sophomores: A Whole Student Approach to Success (461636)
Jo-Anne Manswell Butty1, Vernon R Morris2 and Terri Adams1, (1)Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Associate Dean, New College ASU West, Tempe, AZ, United States
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Experiences to Increase Diversity in STEM (396245)
Solomon Bililign, North Carolina A & T State University, Physics, Greensboro, United States
How Do Advisor Ratings of REU Students Compare with Student Self-ratings? And What Does This Imply for Student Success? (428552)
Barbara Cabezal Bruno, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States
A Multi-tiered Mentoring Program for Underrepresented Students through an NSF REU and NOAA CREST Partnership (463975)
Reginald Blake, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, Janet Liou-Mark, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Mathematics, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Shakila Merchant, CUNY City College of New York, New York, United States and Reza Khanbilvardi, CUNY-CREST Institute, and United Nations University (UNU) Hub on Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS)-UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Department of Civil Engineering, New York, United States
Anti-discrimination curriculum for REU students (458351)
Martin A Snow, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Claire L Raftery, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Michael Hubenthal, EarthScope Consortium, Washington DC, United States
Mentoring the mentors: using project director workshops to develop faculty mentoring skills (436147)
Cameron M Davidson, Carleton College, Geology, Northfield, MN, United States and Karl R Wirth, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Mentoring Diversity is a Team Effort: Example from an International REU Site (435972)
Maureen D Feineman1, Andrew Nyblade1 and Susan Jane Webb2, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences and CIMERA, Johannesburg, South Africa

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