Dear Colleagues,

Recruitment is now open for Entering Mentoring Facilitator Training on October 21 – 22, and November 04-05, 2024 from 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, hosted by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pyle Center. Facilitating Entering Mentoring is a two-day “train-the-trainer” workshop designed to increase the capacity for research mentor trainings offered at colleges and universities, research institutes, and governmental organizations.

During this workshop, participants are introduced to Entering Mentoring in an abbreviated form (this training is not a substitute for the full Research Mentor Training) a mentor training curriculum series that addresses the following themes: aligning expectations, addressing equity and inclusion, articulating your mentoring philosophy and plan, assessing understanding, cultivating ethical behavior, enhancing work-life integration, fostering independence, maintaining effective communication, promoting mentee research self-efficacy, and promoting professional development. Workshop participants become familiar with the curricula, practice facilitating training components, and develop a plan for implementing the training at their institution or organization. 

Participants are...

1. Faculty, instructors, staff, or administrators.
2. Working with mentors whose trainees are undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, or junior faculty. Our workshop materials are currently optimized for use across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine fields.
3. Committed to implementing research mentor training workshops at their institution or organization within the next year.

Registration Details:

• Registration is $2500 per participant and includes workshop materials plus a light breakfast, lunch, and snacks on both days. This workshop is limited to 32 participants. Priority will be given to participants with funding/grant obligations with CIMER.
• We encourage participants to attend with a colleague but not required. No more than three from the same institution will be accepted. Each individual or representative must register for each spot. Registration is first come first served through the payment site.
• The deadline to register is six weeks prior to the workshop, and is on a first-come, first-served basis. If the workshop is full, you will see a message on the payment site to join the waitlist. CIMER will contact waitlisted individuals if spots become available up to three weeks before the workshop.

To view available spots and register, complete the following steps:

Step 1: Pay the registration fee for an open session (a confirmation from the payment site will be sent via email which will be your receipt). You or your representative can pay for yourself, another participant, or note someone else will be paying on your behalf.

• October 21-22,  2024: https://cvent.me/bY1kGr
• November 04-05, 2024:https://cvent.me/g2lg1V

Step 2: Once payment has been made you will receive a confirmation email from the payment site, and you will receive an email from CIMER with a link to a google participant questionnaire within two weeks. You will need to upload a professional photo or headshot as well as a brief bio (max 250 words) describing your title, research focus, mentoring experience, and interest in facilitating mentor training. This information will be shared with workshop participants during the training.

Please contact cimer@wcer.wisc.edu  for any questions and a CIMER representative will redirect your question if needed. A separate recruitment email will be sent for online trainings for Winter 2025.

For more information, visit the Facilitating Entering Mentoring Website.

Sincerely,

Julia

Julia Vander Meer

Research Services Manager

Wisconsin Center for Educational Research

1025 West Johnson Street | Suite 557 | Madison, Wisconsin 53706

CIMERProject.org

To learn more about our facilitator workshops visit:

Entering Mentoring  and Entering Research