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Mentoring
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Welcome to the SAWH Mentoring Toolkit
Table of Contents
“Have a life now. You won’t get one later.”
Elsa Barkley Brown, in
Minority Faculty Experiences
“The best ideas are shared ideas, so take advantage of the knowledge of others.”
Shannon Frystak, in
A Guide to Completing Your Dissertation
“Maintain good relations with the department secretary.”
Joan Marie Johnson, in
Adjuncting
When SAWH members suggested that the organization play a larger role in mentoring, those on the executive council realized that one way we could provide advice was to ask for it ourselves. So we asked Antoinette van Zelm to head an Ad Hoc Mentoring Committee that would ask volunteers to take on discrete topics of concern to our members.
At the SAWH Conference in June 2006, we held a series of workshops on mentoring issues, and many of the panelists offered to help us with the toolkit. We also called for volunteers. As a result, we have great essays to which we will add over time. You can expect to find specific, sensible advice on topics that concern all of us, with suggestions on further resources.
We realize that a Web site is not a real, live, warm person listening to you. But it is a place to start. Every piece is one that I wish I had read in graduate school, and our volunteer advisers have surpassed our greatest expectations. Antoinette van Zelm has pursued this project with rigor, and she and her volunteers have accomplished something that other organizations will emulate.
Each contribution is worth reading, even if it isn’t on an issue that directly concerns you. Moreover, I will be sharing the site with graduate students—newly admitted and well-seasoned—because it will give us a language in common that we can employ to discuss professional issues. You will find yourself nodding in agreement and smiling as you read.
The organization is in debt to the contributors and to Antoinette. Read, enjoy, and profit.
Glenda Gilmore
SAWH President, 2005-2006