Cauffman will use this award to develop more effective mentoring relationships, promote the goals of young scholars of color, and help them in overcoming the unique challenges they face.
Kraft will use this award to develop his ability to mentor junior scholars, help junior scholars make strategic choices between multiple research opportunities, and gain a stronger sense of the career development issues facing junior colleagues of color.
Doane will use this award to develop strategies to mentor junior scholars of color and supervise the advancement of their research, while also guiding them towards scholarly independence.
Destin will use this award to cultivate a culture among his mentees that incorporates collaboration and interpersonal sharing so that individuals can bring their whole selves into their work.
Yeager aims to reorganize his lab to allow more time for mentoring and to learn more about mentoring across difference from faculty leaders of campus diversity initiatives at University of Texas at Austin.
Turney seeks to develop strategies to help students cultivate independent research agendas, and to heighten her capacity for mentoring across difference.
Hamilton proposes to use this award as an opportunity to learn how to help her mentees identify resources that can speak to issues facing scholars of color and first-generation college students.
Excerpt from the Introduction Having a good mentor early in a scholarly career can mean the difference between success and failure. It is striking that such an important activity in the training of new scholars has had few established definitions ...
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
