Mentoring: The ASHA Gathering Place
Passionate mentoring teaches, inspires, and changes lives.
The ASHA Gathering Place was developed in 2004 to facilitate mentoring through guided learning experiences for mentees and mentors. Mentoring provides one-on-one opportunities for collaborating, sharing resources, solving problems, and achieving goals.
The Power of Passionate Mentoring can and does change lives! ASHA created The Gathering Place to focus on the inspiration, skills and resources mentees and mentors need to create powerful, productive mentoring relationships. Mentoring offers many benefits to both the mentor and the mentee. ASHA supports mentoring as a way to link the passionate professionals in the field with the exceptional student or new professional willing to be paired with a trusted advisor or coach. As a factor in professional success, mentoring is second only to education.
Your first step? Choose a program!
The ASHA Gathering Place offers the following mentoring programs:
S.T.E.P.
The Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P.) program offers mentoring for students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral communication sciences and disorders programs. All students are eligible to apply, however, preference will be given to those students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the communication sciences and disorders professions.
Student participants are paired with professionals who provide guidance, feedback and support for career development in the professions (e.g., academic pursuits, career goals, and exploring areas of interest in the professions) in a meaningful, one-to-one relationship. Students are strongly encouraged to be NSSLHA members in order to reap the full benefits of the S.T.E.P. mentoring program.
As part of our goal to strengthen the S.T.E.P. mentoring community, all mentees and mentors are enrolled in the ASHA S.T.E.P. Community. The S.T.E.P. Community is a place for you to connect, learn, and share with other STEP mentees and mentors. To fully participate in the community, you must be an ASHA or NSSLHA member. Students are encouraged to be a NSSLHA member to have access to all of the conversations that take place in the ASHA S.T.E.P. Community.
Enrollment for the S.T.E.P. Winter Session is closed. Match notifications will be sent out by January 15, 2012. The S.T.E.P. Winter Session will run from January 15, 2012–April 15, 2012.
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MARC
The Mentoring Academic-Research Careers program offers one-to-one mentoring opportunities for PhD students and new (0–6 years) tenure track faculty/below the level of associate professor. Enrollment for the 2011–2012 program is now closed.
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