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Faculty to Faculty Mentoring Part I: Supermentor Program

Research Enrichment Core: Amy Wagler and Danielle Morales

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• Supermentor Description
• Hallmarks Addressed
• Evaluation of Hallmarks
• Program Results

Outline

• Who: Faculty at UTEP and Pipeline Institutions
• What: The Supermentor Program provided an
• pportunity for junior faculty from UTEP and Pipeline

institutions to be mentored by experienced and successful faculty, primarily from Research Partner institutions.

• Hallmarks: FAC-7, FAC-8, FAC-9, FAC-10, FAC-12

Supermentor Program Description

Supermentor Program

UTEP

Research Partner Pipeline Partner Research Partner UTEP Faculty Mentee Supermentor Pipeline Partner

Benefits:

• For Faculty Mentee: Mentoring by an accomplished researcher

to develop

• Competitive grant proposals
• New skills or research manuscripts
• For Supermentor:
• Connect with potential collaborator at MSIs
• $1,500 honorarium

Commitment:

• Supermentor
• Up to five hours/month for 11 months
• Respond to and provide comments on written work within 2 weeks of

request

Supermentor Details

• 3 cohorts (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19)
• 16 total mentor/mentee pairs
• Almost all pairs focused on writing a specific grant

proposal or strengthening skills related to developing a strong grant proposals

• Many pairs resulted in ongoing research collaborations

and funding

Supermentor Details

Supermentor Program Hallmarks

• Hallmarks are found at:

https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/dpc/Pages/success. aspx

• All hallmarks focus on
• faculty research productivity
• securing of external funding
• building professional networks
• Evaluation was a mix of qualitative and survey data
• Both the mentees and the mentors were surveyed
• Progress reports were required every three months

Hallmark Evaluation

During the Supermentor program, mentees are asked to return feedback on the following:

1) Please comprehensively describe your activities over the last ten months. Include mention of

1) email exchanges, 2) phone conversations, 3) implementation of the Feed Forward model for a grant proposal idea, 4) other assistance with grant proposals, 5) journal articles reviewed, 6) or other activities in which you have engaged.

2) Discuss any problems that you have encountered.

3) Please describe your plans for the next ten months in terms of the Supermentor program.

Evaluation team used responses in evaluation reports

Hallmark Evaluation

• Progress Reports

• Surveys were administered to mentors and mentees at

the end of the Supermentor program

Hallmark Evaluation-Final Surveys

Topics Questions Satisfaction

• Self-reported level of satisfaction with mentor/mentee experience
• Have you encountered any issues?
• Do you have any suggestions for improvements?

Research Productivity Any manuscripts submitted or published? Funding Any proposals submitted or awarded?

Evaluation team recorded numbers of publications, presentations, grant proposals and awards

• Sent personalized emails to mentee and mentor pairs two times

per year for

• Updates on research manuscripts and
• Updates on grant proposals
• Required ORCHID ID for all research manuscripts and RFA

identifier for all grant proposals

• Compliance was difficult for faculty not accustomed to these

requirements

Hallmark Evaluation-Research Products

• Increased number of faculty involved in mentoring or training programs and collaborations.
• Consistently high levels of satisfaction reported:
• Products:
• Collaborations produced $1,937,972

in external research funding

• Six research publications as of Spring 2019
• Negatives:
• Many reported that the program lacked structure and lack of interest, guidance and communication from mentors
• Suggestions/changes:
• Summer Sabbatical Conference event
• Based on feedback, we are integrating the Supermentor program into a more formal grant writing mentoring program

in Phase II

Supermentor Results

7% 7% 12% 14% 12% 36% 29% 36% 47% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Mentee (n=14) Mentor (n=17) Very Dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neutral Satisfied Very Satisfied

Questions? - Thank you!