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Despite the significant contributions that graduate students, postdocs, and faculty make to the research ecosystem, they are often offered inconsistent access to mentorship and professional development that only intermittently address their holistic well-being. Institutions and leaders have an obligation to ensure that all members of their research enterprise, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty are thriving. Through highlighting the role senior leaders play in embodying an equitable research ecosystem, we will share information and challenges that may be developed into actionable plans to integrate mentorship, well-being, and professional development and create a more effective and equitable higher education research ecosystem.
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·2025
As part of their ongoing work, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce and the Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-being, and Professional Development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an in-person and online workshop on Empowering Senior Higher Education Leade...
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Description
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to explore the roles and responsibilities that leadership--including administrative, faculty, and student leaders--plays in the mentorship, well-being, and professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in STEMM. The workshop will provide an overview of the current challenges facing these leaders as they develop new modes of engagement and innovations that integrate mentorship, well-being, and professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at their institutions. Workshop participants will also discuss existing examples of tools, interventions, and frameworks found to help address barriers and promote success – particularly for those individuals from marginalized and historically underrepresented groups in STEMM.
Major objectives of the workshop include:
1) Examine and describe the landscape of leadership, including accountability structures, shared governance, and the various interconnected leadership roles within an institution that shape the quality of mentorship, well-being, and professional development of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty in STEMM;
2) Connect diverse leaders across different career stages and positions within academia to share challenges, research, and practices for integrating mentorship, well-being, and professional development throughout the STEMM ecosystem; and
3) Explore tools, frameworks, and interventions that can be adapted to yield actionable solutions, mechanisms of accountability, and methods to create buy-in at multiple institutional levels within the evolving landscape of STEMM leadership.
Following the workshop, a rapporteur-authored workshop proceedings-in-brief will be published.
Collaborators
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Melissa Wynn
Staff Officer
Sponsors
Private: Non Profit
Staff
Melissa E. Wynn
Lead
Rian Lund Dahlberg
Andrea Dalagan