This book is a guide for mentors on how to recruit, mentor, and support
students through a student research experience in science, technology,
engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields. Being a
successful research mentor benefits from the self-awareness and
planning, strategies and skills that Success in Mentoring your Student
Researchers can help you build and develop. These are useful for
mentors working with any students, but especially those who have been
minoritized in STEMM or are the first in their family to attend college.
The first part of the book introduces mentoring undergraduates and how
it differs from traditional classroom instruction, active learning, and
flipped classrooms; mentoring is collaboratively teaching research while
doing research. A mentored undergraduate research experience also helps
your mentees develop the skills necessary to be successful scientists
and become part of STEMM communities. The central part of the book
presents the undergraduate research experience as a "three-legged stool"
whose legs--research, education, and community--each have unique values
in advancing your mentees' path in STEMM and all of which require
setting, communicating, and realizing expectations for "success"--your
mentees' and your own. The last part of the book looks beyond the
research experience, from evaluating your success as a mentor through
helping your mentees to continue to develop and grow their STEMM careers
and become mentors themselves.
This book is the mentor's companion to the authors' book for students,
"Success in Navigating your Student Research Experience: Moving Forward
in STEMM."
