Neena Schwartz

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The Mentoring Process
Neena Schwartz
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
Northwestern University
Evanston IL
n-schwartz_at_northwestern.edu
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The Mentoring Process
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
COMMUNICATION!!!
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
Usually when the potential mentee has a problem!
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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Mentoring
Mentee
Mentor
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
It can be as informal as meeting in the corridor
or locker room or it can be scheduled, as between
an advisor and trainee or a faculty member and a
department chair.
How formal is it?
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
How formal is it?
How frequently should you meet (talk)?
Chair should meet untenured faculty once a
quarter. For your trainees its a good idea to be
in the lab available for informal chats, not just
formal scheduled time. Weekly lab meetings are a
must for reviewing data and methodology glitches.
I found collecting samples at night a good way to
mentor.
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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Cast
Dean
Department Chair (Head)
Tenure ranks
Tenured faculty member
Untenured faculty member
Research associates
Post doc
Grad student
Technicians
Undergraduates
Authority Cascade
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
How formal is it?
How frequently should you meet (talk)?
Who can be a mentor/mentee?
Theoretically anybody, but as in learning to play
tennis, you learn more about the game if you seek
a mentor with more experience than you have.
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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Cast
Academic Ladder
Dean
Department Chair (Head)
Tenure ranks
Tenured faculty member
Untenured faculty member
Research associates
Post doc
Grad student
Technicians
Undergraduates
Authority Cascade
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
How formal is it?
How frequently should you meet (talk)?
Who can be a mentor/mentee?
Role of assignments?
You need to make explicit to someone you are
mentoring what expectations are for success.
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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University committees
University administration
Grants and fellowships
NIH and NSF review boards
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The Mentoring Process
How does it start?
How formal is it?
How frequently should you meet (talk)?
Who can be a mentor/mentee?
YES!! If there is a potential problem.
Role of assignments?
Should process be documented?
COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION!!!
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SCIENCE FIELDS
Practitioners
Mmale
Female unfriendly field
Female friendly field
Ffemale
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