Event Title
Morning Keynote: Beyond Programming: Toward Embedded Mentoring Practices in the Support of Student Transitions
Location
Campus Center Auditorium, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Event Website
http://www.umass.edu/studentsuccessconference/index.php
Start Date
11-10-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
11-10-2013 10:00 AM
Description
Becky Wai-Ling Packard's research focuses on mentoring, with an emphasis on how individuals such as first-generation college students, women, and persons of color construct and use mentoring networks and navigate complex pathways toward higher education and work. She frequently speaks on these topics, designs mentoring programs, and offers expert advice on ways to foster a climate in which mentoring all students toward the highest levels of excellence is possible. She recently contributed to a National Academy of Science summit and volume examining the role of community colleges in STEM fields. Her research has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation. In 2005, Packard visited the White House where she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to early career scientists. Packard received her doctorate in educational psychology from Michigan State University and she holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan.
Morning Keynote: Beyond Programming: Toward Embedded Mentoring Practices in the Support of Student Transitions
Campus Center Auditorium, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Becky Wai-Ling Packard's research focuses on mentoring, with an emphasis on how individuals such as first-generation college students, women, and persons of color construct and use mentoring networks and navigate complex pathways toward higher education and work. She frequently speaks on these topics, designs mentoring programs, and offers expert advice on ways to foster a climate in which mentoring all students toward the highest levels of excellence is possible. She recently contributed to a National Academy of Science summit and volume examining the role of community colleges in STEM fields. Her research has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation. In 2005, Packard visited the White House where she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to early career scientists. Packard received her doctorate in educational psychology from Michigan State University and she holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan.
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