Mentoring
Best Collaborator Award 2014-2017
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Steven Lewis
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Klaus Bartels
Best Mentor-Mentee Award 2017
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Mentor: Amanda Lewis Mentee: Elizabeth Alvizo -
Mentor: Dr. Dan Dimitriu Mentee: Dominic Ochoa
Best Mentor-Mentee Award 2016
- Mentor: Kenneth Nagle; Mentee: Breanna Sanchez. Coastal Bend College
- Mentor: Kenneth Nagle; Mentee: Martha Hernandez. Coastal Bend College
- Mentor: Klaus Bartels; Mentee: Julio Banda. San Antonio College.
Best Mentor-Mentee Award 2015
- Mentor: Steven Lewis, Mentee: Daniel Benavides San Antonio College
- Mentor: Mark Secord, Mentee: Emily Hinojosa Coastal Bend College
Mentoring System
- What is it? Informal transfer of knowledge, information, and support from an experienced/knowledgeable person (mentor) to another wanting to be coached (mentee) Relevant to education, research, work, career/professional development.
- Types of mentoring in the REENERGIZE program: Under this program we will provide Face-to-face, over phone/Skype, and online tools (Tracs and Piazza).
- Benefits:
Facilitate and stimulate mentorship for students from minority institutions
Mentors from Texas State University faculty and industry experts
Monetary awards for exemplary mentor/mentee pairs
Research-related mentoring to instructors and students
- Offer relevant research/grant leads
- Help with preparation of proposals/publication manuscripts.
In this system, for every student active in the lab and research activities in the partner institutions, a faculty, student, or alumni will be assigned to assist them in their research, career, and higher education.
Additionally, the free web service Piazza system has been chosen as the online mechanism for the mentoring. In this system, any faculty and student in the partnering institution will sign up and in the Piazza web system and will access to well-organized data (research, higher education, career). If there is any question or comments, they can post it on the forum with their names or as an anonymous user. Reenergize faculty team will respond the questions and comments and will engage everyone in an interactive discussion.
Best Mentor-Mentee Award Evaluation Criteria
- Minority, female minority student being mentored
- Meaningful and sustainable research
- Technical papers, conference presentations, other publications
- Successful graduation
- Career/professional development
- Networking with academia/industry
Mentoring
Role model matters site
| Performance Measure Year 1 | Measure Type Quantitative Data | Target | Actual Performance Data | Raw Number | Ratio | % | Raw Number | Ratio | ||||||
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| % Number of users in the TRACS-based mentorship system 50 | 71 | 142% | ||||||||||||
| Number of minority students users in the TRACS-based mentorship system 25 | 50 | 200% | ||||||||||||
| Number of minority female students users in the TRACS-based mentorship system 13 | 12 | 92% | ||||||||||||
| Number of communications in one year in mentorship system | 100 | 180 | 180% | |||||||||||
| Number of Mentor-Mentee pairs in year 1 | 10 | 22 | 220% | |||||||||||
| Number of minority students in Mentor-Mentee pairs in year 1 | 5 | 19 | 380% | |||||||||||
| Number of minority female students in Mentor-Mentee pairs in year 1 | 3 | 6 | 200% | |||||||||||
| Year 2 Research | Minority | Non-minority | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Female | Male | Female | Male |
| SAC | 7 | 31 | 5 | 12 |
| CBC | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| SWTJC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| HTU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 16 | 36 | 6 | 16 |
| Year 2 Mentor-Mentee pair | Minority | Non-minority | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Female | Male | Female | Male |
| SAC | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| CBC | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| SWTJC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| HTU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 7 | 9 | 0 | 1 |