2025 Academic Innovation Winter Institute

The 2025 Academic Innovation Winter Institute, held on January 15-16, 2025, will focus on “Innovative Practices in Research Mentorship: Getting the Most Out of Your Mentoring Efforts.” This two-day event will feature keynote addresses, interactive sessions, and panel discussions centered on effective mentoring of students from diverse populations, helping students overcome the imposter phenomenon, and motivating students by linking research to career readiness. Faculty and staff will explore how to cultivate psychological safety, motivate students, and effectively integrate mentoring into their retention, tenure, and promotion requirements. Participants will also learn strategies for using mentoring to secure grants and create inclusive, empowering learning environments. The event aims to provide actionable tools and best practices for fostering inclusive and holistic student support in research settings.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a deeper understanding of the challenges diverse student populations face and how to mentor them holistically.

• Learn strategies to address and help students overcome the imposter phenomenon through mentoring.

• Explore how effective mentoring practices can contribute to grant acquisition and research success.

• Identify key characteristics of excellence in undergraduate research mentoring and how to foster them.

• Learn how to create inclusive, safe spaces that promote psychological safety and belonging for students.

• Engage in discussions on balancing student advocacy with empowerment and learn practical tools for motivating students and helping them find research opportunities.

• Develop action plans to integrate mentoring practices into their academic work and research environments.

Host or Publisher Academic Innovation