NRMN Culturally Aware Mentor Training February 15 and March 1, am - 4pm Feb 15: CE 450B; Mar 1: ET 327

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1 NRMN Culturally Aware Mentor Training February 15 and March 1, am - 4pm Feb 15: CE 450B; Mar 1: ET 327 On behalf of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), the IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center, and the IUPUI Graduate School, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in culturally aware mentor training to support your efforts in building the next generation of future faculty and professionals. These events are part of IUPUI s Trailblazers and Innovators yearly seminar series that recognizes and supports innovative ideas in mentoring underrepresented minority students. Workshop Overview: This two-day intensive training is designed for mentors of undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty. The training on February 15 (8 am-4 pm) is a prerequisite to the March 1 training and will be facilitated by Randall J. Roper, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center, and Etta M. Ward, M.A., IUPUI Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Development in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, both trained NRMN facilitators. This first session consists of Entering Mentoring modules developed by the NRMN including: Maintaining Effective Communication, Aligning Expectations, Assessing Understanding, Addressing Equity and Inclusion, Fostering Independence, Promoting Professional Development Articulating your Mentoring Philosophy. The Entering Mentoring curricula series addresses the new NIGMS guidelines regarding the preparation of mentors involved in training graduate students. The Feb. 15 th training will be held in CE 450B and will include breakfast and lunch and program materials. Mentors who participate in this first session will complete a document on how they will implement this training in their current mentoring efforts. Those who have previously completed 8 hours of NRMN training (Entering Mentoring, Entering Research, or IUPUI Faculty Mentoring Dialogues) are not required to attend this session given their current NRMN training. The March 1 training at IUPUI will be facilitated by two Master Facilitators from the NRMN: Philip Cheng, PhD is an Assistant Scientist at the Henry Ford Health System and Bruce Birren, PhD is Director of Harvard and MIT s Broad Institute Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases. This training consists of three components. 1) a preworkshop, 1-hour, self-directed session that reviews key social science terms and research about the influence of race, ethnicity, and other historical and contemporary dimensions of cultural diversity to research training in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences (but applicable to all disciplines). 2) A full day on campus intensive workshop (March 1, 8 am-4 pm) during which mentors look inward and examine their own racial and ethnic identity and use insights from these reflections to identify their personal assumptions and worldviews that may operate in their research mentoring relationships. Through a combination of activities including group discussion, case studies, and role play, mentors learn and practice culturally aware mentoring skills in order to increase their capacity to respond better to cultural diversity matters in their research mentoring relationships. 3) Training on March 1 st is completed with a 21-item skills self-assessment relating to culturally aware mentoring. The eight hour training on March 1 is in ET 327 at IUPUI and will include breakfast and lunch, and is designed to prompt discussion/questions. This March session can accommodate up to 30 mentors.

2 During the program sessions, mentors will learn how to: 1. Identify how their cultural beliefs, worldviews, and identities influence their mentoring practices. 2. Recognize how cultural diversity can impact their research mentoring relationships. 3. Acknowledge the impact of conscious and unconscious assumptions, privilege, stereotype threat, and biases in the mentor-mentee relationship. 4. Use culturally responsive mentoring principles to guide them in talking about cultural diversity matters with their mentees. 5. Apply evidence-based strategies to reduce and counteract the impact of biases, stereotype threat, and privilege to foster trusting, culturally responsive mentoring relationships. IUPUI Participant Qualifications: Previous experience mentoring students in research and scholarship and completion of February Training or similar training Willingness to complete pre-session work, including: pre-session survey, 1-hour online module, and preparing a culture box (two objects that represent important parts of your life story, especially as related to your social identities) Workshop Facilitators Philip Cheng, PhD Henry Ford Health System Philip Cheng, PhD is an Assistant Scientist at the Henry Ford Health System. Dr. Cheng is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in sleep and circadian medicine. His program of research examines the biopsychosocial dimensions of sleep and circadian disorders (e.g., insomnia, shift work disorder), with a focus on translation science that produces feasible and widely accessible interventions. Dr. Cheng is currently funded by the NIH to further characterize pathophysiological phenotypes of shift work disorder. Dr. Cheng has been involved with NRMN since 2014 and is experienced in facilitating research mentor training and mentee training nationally, via both the synchronous online environment as well as in-person workshops. Dr. Cheng also has specific interests in promoting culturally aware and culturally responsive mentoring through an experientially-based curriculum, and has curricular expertise in the Culturally Aware Mentoring module offered through NRMN. He is also developing curriculum that targets issues specific to the LGBT+ communities. His style and philosophy of social justice education draws from a dialogue-based approach, cultivated through his experiences with a University of Michigan program on intergroup relations. Dr. Cheng received his Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan. Bruce Birren, PhD Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Bruce Birren, PhD is Director of the Broad s Genomic Center for Infectious Diseases that studies bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and insect vectors of disease and the interaction of these pathogens with their hosts and the microbiome. Dr. Birren founded the Broad s Diversity Initiative and he launched and oversees an institute-wide mentoring program. He develops curricula and endless case studies for courses and workshops on a variety of mentoring topics for both mentees and mentors. He teaches

3 and leads workshops to develop skills for communicating science and making mentoring relationships effective and to explore how our identities influence our success within the culture of science. Dr. Birren leads NRMN research mentor training workshops and faculty trainings in culturally aware mentoring; workshops to teach research-related skills for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees; and workshops on implicit bias, microaggressions, and other factors that contribute to the underrepresentation of specific groups in research careers. He is an NRMN Master Facilitator and Grant Writing Coach. Randall J. Roper, PhD Department of Biology, IUPUI School of Science Director, IUPUI Mentoring Center Randall Roper, PhD is an Associate Professor of Genetics and his laboratory studies how genes in three copies cause phenotypes that affect individuals with Down syndrome. He mentors both graduate and undergraduate students that concentrate their studies on skeletal and neurological traits associated with Trisomy 21. He is an NRMN trained facilitator and has facilitated a number of NRMN training sessions at IUPUI. Etta M. Ward, MA Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Development, IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Etta Ward has led research development efforts at IUPUI for over 16 years. Her primary role is to advance the research enterprise through faculty and professional development efforts. She helped to spearhead the development, execution and management of effective mentoring programs for IUPUI faculty and staff. An NRMN trained facilitator, she is leading effort bring the NRMN model to national organizations that support faculty, staff and student research and creative activity in the academy and beyond. Registration Instructions: The deadline to register for this workshop is February 7 and is enrollment is limited to 30 participants. If you do not already have an NRMN account, you should create one at Please register at or the link on We will share instructions for required pre-session work by February 18th. Additional Details: If you have any questions, please contact iupuigmc@iupui.edu.

4 Sample Agendas: February 15: Time Activity 8:00-8:30 Registration, Breakfast and Networking 8:30-9:00 Welcome, Training Overview, and Ground Rules 9:00 9:30 Maintaining Effective Communication 9:30 10:15 Aligning Expectations 10:15 10:30 Break 10:30 11:00 Assessing Understanding 11:00 12:00 Addressing Equity and Inclusion 12:00-12:30 Lunch 12:30 1:30 Addressing Equity and Inclusion 1:30-2:15 Fostering independence 2:15 2:30 Break 2:30 3:15 Promoting Professional Development 3:15 4:00 Articulating your Mentoring Philosophy

5 March 1: Time Activity Introduction 8:00-9:00 Registration, Breakfast and Networking 9:00-9:30 Welcome, Training Overview, and Ground Rules Part 1: Intrapersonal 9:30-10:15 Culture Box 9:30-10:15 Racial Identity Exercise 10:45-11:00 Break Part 2: Interpersonal 11:00-11:30 Exploring O-Ness : Video and Discussion 11:30-12:15 Key Terms & Definitions; Science Behind Assumptions 12:15-12:45 Lunch 12:45-1:15 Research on Cultural Diversity Dynamics Part 3: Skill Building 1:15-1:45 Principles for Culturally Aware Mentoring Practices 1:45-2:15 Case Studies 2:15-2:30 Break 2:30-3:15 Role Plays 3:15-3:45 Reflection & Next Steps 3:45-4:00 Adjourn & Evaluation

6 Sponsored by: -IUPUI Graduate Office -IUPUI Graduate Mentoring Center -President s Diversity Initiative -IU School of Health and Human Sciences -IU School of Medicine -IU School of Philanthropy -IU School of Social Work -Purdue School of Engineering and Technology -Purdue School of Science