[bioundgrd] LAST CALL: 2025 Bio Dept Mentoring Survey; please participate

[Amy E Keating]

Hi everyone,

This is our LAST CALL for everyone to please fill out the mentoring survey (see the link below).
Our deadline was yesterday, but I encourage you to respond this week and still be counted.
We are ~10% short of our response goal and hope more of you will respond today.

Thanks for giving a few minutes of your time to help us understand the mentoring landscape and trends in our department.

Best regards,
Amy

From: Amy E Keating <keating at mit.edu>
Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
To: biograds <biograds at mit.edu>, bioundgrd <bioundgrd at mit.edu>, biopdaf <biopdaf at mit.edu>, bio-srs <bio-srs at mit.edu>
Cc: biofac <biofac at mit.edu>
Subject: Re: 2025 Bio Dept Mentoring Survey; please participate
Hi everyone,

So far, we have only ~half as many responses to the mentoring survey as we received last year. To allow meaningful tracking, we need your feedback. This is your opportunity to share your experiences in a way that will benefit our entire department. It will only take 10-15 minutes to complete, so please take some time to respond today. The boba tea event is on the line!

Thanks for your time and considered input.

Best regards,
Amy

From: Amy E Keating <keating at mit.edu>
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
To: biograds <biograds at mit.edu>, bioundgrd <bioundgrd at mit.edu>, biopdaf <biopdaf at mit.edu>, bio-srs <bio-srs at mit.edu>
Subject: 2025 Bio Dept Mentoring Survey; please participate
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!),

I write to request your participation in filling out an anonymous survey to evaluate and help improve mentorship in our department. This is the second 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.

The survey should take only 10-15 minutes to complete and is available at the following link:
https://mitresearch.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2t3BGaP60sQLpZ4
Due to the survey layout, we recommend that you complete this on a computer, although it will also work on a phone.

The survey is based closely on the departmental mentoring competencies<https://biology.mit.edu/internal/mentoring-students-and-early-career-scientists/>, 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.

Please submit your response by Monday, May 12. To incentivize participation, if we obtain responses from 50% of lab members in Biology Department labs (similar to last year), we will arrange for a popup Boba tea event as a thank-you and community celebration.

Thank you in advance for sharing your views and experiences with us.

Best regards,
Amy

Link<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rd7Q4He6WzD9k263dCPR3iHVlZW88GdMNCq0Gv-iauA/edit?usp=sharing> to my DH office hours sign-up sheet

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