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The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society
Over the past decades, two persisting priorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training have been: 1) increasing the knowledge of and access to careers beyond academic scientist; and 2) increasing the diversity of the STEM workforce. Previous studies show that a uniquel...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8711805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32643998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-10-0195 |
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author | Womack, Veronica Y. Thakore, Bhoomi K. Wood, Christine V. Jewett, David C. Jones, Remi F. Ingram, Susan L. Clark, Janet A. Fry, Catherine L. Wecker, Lynn McGee, Richard |
author_facet | Womack, Veronica Y. Thakore, Bhoomi K. Wood, Christine V. Jewett, David C. Jones, Remi F. Ingram, Susan L. Clark, Janet A. Fry, Catherine L. Wecker, Lynn McGee, Richard |
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description | Over the past decades, two persisting priorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training have been: 1) increasing the knowledge of and access to careers beyond academic scientist; and 2) increasing the diversity of the STEM workforce. Previous studies show that a uniquely constructed career coaching group provides strong support and progress for both priorities. This report extends this design into a more sustainable model that is positioned within the professional context of rising young scientists. This new model is based in the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)—the ASPET Mentoring Network. Groups of PhD students and postdocs were assigned to an ASPET professional (academic or other career) member (the coach) with an initial meeting held the day before the society’s annual meeting. The coaching groups interacted during the meeting and then virtually for a year. Extensive survey and interview evaluation data gathered from the first three cohorts (12 coaching groups) in 2016– 2018 provided strong evidence of the perceived and real benefits of the network. This new version of career coaching groups is both feasible and linked to career success due to its close association with a scientific society, peers, and coaches who share scientific identities and aspirations. |
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spelling | pubmed-87118052022-01-03 The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society Womack, Veronica Y. Thakore, Bhoomi K. Wood, Christine V. Jewett, David C. Jones, Remi F. Ingram, Susan L. Clark, Janet A. Fry, Catherine L. Wecker, Lynn McGee, Richard CBE Life Sci Educ Article Over the past decades, two persisting priorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training have been: 1) increasing the knowledge of and access to careers beyond academic scientist; and 2) increasing the diversity of the STEM workforce. Previous studies show that a uniquely constructed career coaching group provides strong support and progress for both priorities. This report extends this design into a more sustainable model that is positioned within the professional context of rising young scientists. This new model is based in the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)—the ASPET Mentoring Network. Groups of PhD students and postdocs were assigned to an ASPET professional (academic or other career) member (the coach) with an initial meeting held the day before the society’s annual meeting. The coaching groups interacted during the meeting and then virtually for a year. Extensive survey and interview evaluation data gathered from the first three cohorts (12 coaching groups) in 2016– 2018 provided strong evidence of the perceived and real benefits of the network. This new version of career coaching groups is both feasible and linked to career success due to its close association with a scientific society, peers, and coaches who share scientific identities and aspirations. American Society for Cell Biology 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC8711805/ /pubmed/32643998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-10-0195 Text en © 2020 V. Y. Womack et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2020 The American Society for Cell Biology. “ASCB®” and “The American Society for Cell Biology®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License. |
spellingShingle | Article Womack, Veronica Y. Thakore, Bhoomi K. Wood, Christine V. Jewett, David C. Jones, Remi F. Ingram, Susan L. Clark, Janet A. Fry, Catherine L. Wecker, Lynn McGee, Richard The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title | The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title_full | The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title_fullStr | The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title_full_unstemmed | The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title_short | The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society |
title_sort | aspet mentoring network: enhancing diversity and inclusion through career coaching groups within a scientific society |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8711805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32643998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-10-0195 |
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