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Title: Beyond mentoring: A sponsorship program to improve womens success


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Beyond mentoring A sponsorship program to
improve womens success
  • Vita C. Rabinowitz and Virginia Valian
  • Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the
    City University of New York

The Gender Equity Project (GEP) is supported in
part by an NSF ADVANCE Institutional
Transformation Award (SBE-0123609).
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Key Elements of the Sponsorship Program
  • Application package
  • Financial support
  • Sponsor
  • Workshops
  • Consultation with GEP co-directors
  • New intellectual and social communities
  • Regular measurement
  • Quantitative and qualitative evaluations

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The application package
  • Three aims
  • Identifies strengths and weaknesses in an
    applicant's portfolio
  • Models professional grant writing and provides
    practice for new investigators
  • Establishes the program as desirable and
    selective rather than remedial

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The application package
  • It requires
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Statement of past, present, and future scholarly
    interests
  • Statement of resources needed for the coming year
  • Research goals and commitments for the coming
    year
  • Budget and budget justification
  • Statement of other sources of funding
  • Description of the ideal sponsor(s)
  • Letter of support from the department chair
  • Statement of the benefits of prior sponsorship
    program participation, if applicable
  • Personal interview
  • Signed contract committing to a set of goals and
    activities

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Financial support
  • Associates can receive up to 10,000 per year.
  • Funds can be used for release time, research
    assistance, teaching assistance, travel, or
    equipmentanything that is directly
    research-related and approved by the GEP.

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Sponsors
  • Serve as intellectual sounding boards
  • Provide critiques of papers and grant proposals
  • Make suggestions about where to submit papers and
    grant proposals, recommend conferences to attend
  • Provide strategic advice
  • Receive financial support (up to 2500 per
    associate per semester) for their participation
    in the program

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The workshops focus on
  • Career developmentbalancing work
    responsibilities, making effective public
    presentations, preparing one's vita, developing
    self-presentation skills, building a national
    reputation, creating a circle of advisors,
    handling power and politics, teaching effectively
    and efficiently, improving negotiation skills,
    preparing for tenure and promotion
  • Writing and publishingmanaging time, overcoming
    procrastination, publishing and handling
    rejection, writing grants and seeking research
    support
  • Mentoring and leadershipbeing sponsored and
    sponsoring others, managing laboratories,
    students and assistants balancing work and
    personal life developing equality in personal
    relationships, seeking influence

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New support groups
  • Consultations with the GEP Co-Directors
  • Intellectual and social community among associates

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Measurement
  • Major types of measures
  • Evaluations of components of the sponsorship
    program, particularly workshops
  • Associate progress reports
  • Associate interviews with the GEP co-directors

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Evaluation of the Sponsorship Program
  • Quantitative assessments of program success
  • Increase in paper and grant submissions
  • The 16 associates in cohorts 1 and 2 submitted
    significantly more papers and grants (internal
    and external) during their first year in the
    program (M 5.5, SD 3.5) than they did during
    the year before entering the program (M 3.1, SD
    1.8), t(15) 2.32, p lt .05
  • The 11 associates in cohort 1 presenting full
    data also submitted more papers and grants during
    their second year of the program than they had
    during the year before entering the program,
    t(10) 3.2, p lt .01

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Evaluation of the Sponsorship Program
  • Qualitative assessments of program effects
  • Regular interviews with associates and sponsors
  • Regular responses to open-ended questions on
    progress reports
  • Spontaneous letters, emails, and other contacts

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Leading Ideas from the Sponsorship Program and
the GEP
  • Gender is a window on institutional effectiveness
  • A continuous thread links undergraduates,
    graduate students, post-docs, and faculty
  • Women who profit from initiatives like the
    Sponsorship Program are carriers of information
    and strategies to colleagues in their departments
    and throughout the college
  • A circle of advisors is superior to a single
    mentor
  • Measurements, interviews, and application
    procedures are interventions
  • Attention to gender encourages distributed
    leadership
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