Started in 2009
Conference Event for Graduate Students
The Mentoring Program committee is currently planning a professional development activity for graduate students to be held during this year’s annual meeting in November. The goal of this session is to introduce graduate students to careers in evaluation. We plan to accomplish this by providing them with a networking opportunity and information that will prepare them for the evaluation job market. The networking opportunity involves an informal discussion with senior members of the MIE TIG on how they use evaluation in their daily work. For this discussion, the mentoring program committee hopes to include TIG members that practice evaluation in a variety of contexts (e.g., academic; independent consulting; non-profit; and foundations), to provide a broader perspective of the marketplace. In terms of the job search, we will offer students nuggets of information on how to: (a) create a curriculum vitae, (b) convert a curriculum vitae into a résumé, and (c) engage the academic and non-academic job market through online job banks.
The MIE TIG also selects up to six travel awards for full-time students submitting conference proposals for papers identifying ways to increase the racial/ethnic diversity of people entering the field of evaluation and/or ways to increase the cultural competence of evaluators. All students are eligible to compete for these scholarships; however, special consideration is given to students who themselves will increase the racial/ethnic diversity of presenters at the conference.
Pamela Frazier-Anderson and Stella L. Hargett, MIE Program Co-Chairs
For Additional Information Contact:
Dr. Pamela Frazier-Anderson
Adjunct Professor
Department of Psychology
Lincoln University
1570 Baltimore Pike
Lincoln University, PA 19352
pfanderson@lincoln.edu