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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Dear Biology graduate students, UROPs, post-docs, and other lab members (and apologies to those of you on these lists to whom this doesn’t apply!), </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">I write to request your participation in
<b>filling out an anonymous survey to evaluate and help improve mentorship in our department.
</b>This is the third year of this survey, and your participation will make a strong impact on our work to obtain data and information to shape our efforts and ongoing activities. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">As described in the survey, for this third year, Institutional Research will provide anonymized lab-level information to me for labs where there are sufficient
responses over three years to ensure anonymity. I do not plan to release this data publicly, but I will use the information to help support our efforts surrounding mentorship across our department.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The survey should take only 10-15 minutes to complete and is available at the following link:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="https://mitresearch.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ILSbRszMWfWCj4" class="ms-outlook-linkify" data-outlook-id="673e980d-7d37-4f60-82f3-85d76e3b8e58" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://mitresearch.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ILSbRszMWfWCj4</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Due to the survey layout, we recommend that you complete this on a computer, although it will also work on a phone.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The survey is based closely on the departmental
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="https://biology.mit.edu/internal/mentoring-students-and-early-career-scientists/" title="https://biology.mit.edu/internal/mentoring-students-and-early-career-scientists/" data-outlook-id="523da945-3abb-4540-9005-12bc1362b3d3" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 215); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">mentoring
competencies</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">, and it seeks input on your experiences and preferences for mentoring by your PI. We seek to capture and track the status of
mentoring experiences so we can celebrate areas of success, identify areas that require attention, and direct our ongoing efforts to support mentoring relationships in a data-driven way. We can’t do this without your input.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Please submit your response by Monday, May 18th</b>. To incentivize participation, if we obtain responses from 50% of lab members in Biology Department
labs (like last year), we will arrange for a pop-up Boba tea event as a thank-you and community celebration.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Thank you in advance for sharing your views and experiences with us.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Amy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rd7Q4He6WzD9k263dCPR3iHVlZW88GdMNCq0Gv-iauA/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rd7Q4He6WzD9k263dCPR3iHVlZW88GdMNCq0Gv-iauA/edit?usp=sharing" data-outlook-id="7fe3f256-531e-413d-ad7a-2bd00f07e43e" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Link</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> to
my DH office hours sign-up sheet</span></p>
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