Culturally Aware Mentoring Workshop Series
The WVU Health Sciences community is invited to attend a campus-wide workshop series on culturally aware mentoring co-sponsored by the HSC Office of Research and Graduate Education and the WVU Office of Graduate Education and Life.
Presented by Kelly Diggs-Andrews, Ph.D., "Enhancing Cultural Awareness of Research Mentors" will take place Tuesday, March 8, and Tuesday, March 22, from 2-4 p.m. via Zoom.
Diggs-Andrews is the founder and CEO of Diggs-Andrews Consulting, LLC, a consulting and media company whose goal is to broaden accessibility to science careers through science outreach, diversity training, and professional development. Learn more.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the impact that conscious and unconscious assumptions, preconceptions, biases, and prejudices have on the mentor-mentee relationship and acquire skills to manage them
- Expand understanding of cultural diversity in mentoring relationships (how cultural diversity dynamics can complicate mentee and mentor experience)
- Be more aware of cultural diversity in themselves and others
- Communicate effectively across diverse dimensions including varied backgrounds, disciplines, ethnicities, positions of power, etc.
Each session will provide two hours toward the WVU HSC graduate faculty mentor training requirement.