AAS Members Are Invited to Use Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit
Tom Rice American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) who mentor university students in research are invited to use a new research-backed toolkit designed to help mentors and mentees develop equity-minded mentoring relationships. Mentoring relationships are critical to scholarly identity development and a sense of belonging for graduate students, but the benefits of mentoring can often vary in inequitable ways across social identities such as race, class, and gender.
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This resource was produced by the Research Hub of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network, of which the AAS is a partner society. The toolkit is the result of a Research Acceleratory Award and was developed with and for STEMM graduate students. While the Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit was initially designed to support STEMM graduate students (as both mentees and mentors), it is applicable to mentoring relationships across all levels of postsecondary education.