Word: mentorships
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...Radcliffe Research Partnerships and the Radcliffe Externship Program--both coordinated by the Radcliffe Office of Undergraduate Affairs--offer a mentorship framework which can lead to personal as well as professional relationships, students in the programs say. Unlike the Radcliffe Mentor Program, they encourage students to seek out mentors on their...
March says the real-life programs offer an opportunity that until recently would have been impossible. "There has been a social upheaval that has enabled women to reach these levels and positions of power," March says of the field-work-oriented mentorship programs...
...only at Newcombe College, part of Tulane University in New Orleans, that Wilson says she discovered the power of mentorship in terms of role-modeling...
Both these systems offer a deeper mentorship than what is available in a large, impersonal department, she says. Although mentorship programs may not always make use of top Faculty, Wilson says, students benefit more from such structured relationships than from shorter departmental interactions...
Wilson cites the six-year-old Science Alliance conference--which Arnotte coordinates--as a classic example of such structured mentorship for women in science concentrations...