DHC-- Davis Honors Challenge Winter 2009
Undergraduate Mentoring Opportunities on the UCD Campus
Meeting sched:
Jan 8,Thurs 2-4pm at 3224 MSB
Jan 23, Friday 5:10pm at 3224MSB
Feb 6, Friday 5:15pm at 3224MSB
Tues, Feb 17, noon-1 in 3224MSB
to program?
Weds, Feb 18 , probably noon-1 at (in Mrak 410)
to meet the larger MTF
GREAT job on your presentation and the discussion after!!!
Feb 27, Friday, at 5:10pm.
Thurs , Mar 5 Convocation
Project overview:
It has been documented that mentoring can make a crucial difference in
the development and retention of students and faculty alike, especially
those from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged
backgrounds. There are several mentoring programs on campus, such as
Mentorships for Undergraduates in Research Participants in the Physical
and Mathematical Sciences (MURPPS), Mentorships for Undergraduate
Research in Agriculture, Letters, and Science (MURAL), Biology
Undergraduate Scholars Program (BUSP), and so on. Mentoring can
take many forms, or be done on a less formal
level.
Despite these opportunities, it is apparent that too many students and
faculty are not aware of the numerous programs on campus. Consequently,
many faculty ``reinvent the wheel" in launching their own mentoring
efforts, not taking advantage of pre-existing resources or expertise on
campus. Importantly, students are not aware of the opportunities
available to them. Additionally, not everyone knows what mentoring
really means or how to effectively do so. In an effort to resolve
this issue, the Academic Senate initiated the Mentoring Task Force (a
subcommittee of the Affirmative Action & Diversity Committee)
which focuses on exploring (and proposing new) campus-wide
undergraduate mentoring programs and centralizing resources on
mentoring based on the growing recognition of the importance of
increasing diversity at UC Davis and
systemwide.
Charge to the team: Learn about what information has been
gathered to date regarding mentoring activities/opportunities on
campus through interviews with leaders of pre-existing mentoring
programs and with task-force members. Design a website (or wiki) where
all mentoring efforts (toward undergraduates) can be presented (much of
this data has been collected). As part of this project, research
where is the most effective site to house this webpage, and find
information on what mentoring is, or about mentorship training or
available (funding)
resources.
Investigate what resources are needed? How best to make this
sustainable? Which practices work and which fizzle out? This can be
accomplished in part by researching similar programs/webpages at other
UC campuses and universities. Make recommendations on where to move
next, once a website is up and
running.
Sponsors:
Professor Monica Vazirani, Department of Mathematics, UCD & Chair
of the Academic Senate Undergraduate Mentoring Task Force: email:
mjvazirani@ucdavis.edu; Phone: 752-2218 ; office 3224 MSB
Professor Jon D. Rossini, Department of Theatre and Dance, UCD &
Chair of the Affirmative Action & Diversity Committee;
email: jdrossini@ucdavis.edu; Phone: 754-9212
Student team:
Michael Lee <doclee@ucdavis.edu>,
Grace Wong
<gstwong@ucdavis.edu>,
Marcus Tang
<mustang@ucdavis.edu>,
Lauren Richardson
<lmrichardson@ucdavis.edu>,
Daniel Stevens
<dastevens@ucdavis.edu>,
Jennifer Schmidt
<jkschmidt@ucdavis.edu>,
ASUCD resources - Ivan Carrillo (president)
Senate - Lora Jo Bossio
documents and other resources compiled
mtf_mentoring_program_list_survey_072120.xls
UCD_undergrad_sponsored _rsch_programs_2.pdf
mentoring_survey_results_Qs3_4_5_11_modified_02052008.xls
results_mentoring_survey_analysis_01112008.doc
mentoring_survey_10232007_final.pdf
AAD_mentoring_proposal_10092007_exec_council.pdf