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Center for Mentoring: Humanities Engage Administrative Internship Summer 2022

Benchmarking Mentoring Programs

Unit Description

According to its mission statement, “The Center for Mentoring inspires mentors and equips mentees to maximize their mentoring relationships and promote a culture of mentoring at the University of Pittsburgh.” Key programs such as The Mentoring Academy and the Entering Research curriculum have demonstrated the effectiveness of mentor/mentee training for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students. Based upon the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research curriculum, Pitt’s mentoring programming brings together university affiliates from across multiple schools, departments, and disciplines, to develop professional competencies in mentoring, such as effective communication skills, alignment of expectations, fostering independence, and “mentoring up.”

Eligibility

DSAS Humanities Ph.D. students with no university academic appointment in summer 2022 (TA/TF/GSA/GSR/other full summer funding) or external fellowship and who expect to be enrolled in fall 2022. 

Stipend

$2,000 for ca. 100 hours of effort in summer 2022

Internship Project Overview

Now its fifth year, the Center for Mentoring is assessing its impact (through data analysis of qualitative and quantitative survey data), conducting its regular benchmarking of mentoring programs at comparable institutions, as well as updating its website.  The internship entails assisting on these activities, including the following tasks:

  • benchmarking mentoring programs currently existing at other institutions
  • conducting some data analysis of our survey feedback and correlating with attendance data and facilitators
  • performing website updates

This internship can be conducted remotely or hybrid.

Qualifications

Potential applicants do not necessarily need to possess all these skills prior to beginning of internship:

  • Data analysis and other research
  • Writing and report compilation
  • Organization
  • Collaboration
  • Ability to work independently

Host Unit Mentor

Dr. Joel Brady is a Teaching Consultant and the Program Supervisor for the Graduate Student Teaching Initiative. He works individually and programmatically with faculty, graduate students, and administrators throughout the university to improve teaching at Pitt. He teaches the Teaching Center’s three-credit “University Teaching Practicum” designed for graduate students and new instructors who are teaching for the first time, facilitates a wide variety of pedagogy workshops, and coordinates the University-wide New Teaching Assistant Orientation (NTAO). Additionally, Dr. Brady teaches his own courses through the Departments of Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and History, including “History of Orthodox Christianity,” “Behind Bars: Cross-Cultural Representations of Prison in the 20th Century,” and perhaps most popularly, “Vampire: Blood and Empire.”

Application

See here for terms and application instructions.