[bioundgrd] 2026 Bio Dept Mentoring Survey; please participate

[Amy E Keating]

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 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.

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.

The survey should take only 10-15 minutes to complete and is available at the following link:
https://mitresearch.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ILSbRszMWfWCj4

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 18th. 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.

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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