Effectiveness of Programming to Enhance Research Mentoring for Diverse Students

Color poster with text, images, charts, and photographs.Mentoring diverse students has become an important topic at colleges supporting equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), as the methods needed for effective interactions with this population could be different from traditional research students. At the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, EDI is embedded in the 2025 Strategic Plan, creating a framework to enhance the efforts across the entire university. Since one of the pillars of the plan is to integrate undergraduate research and creative activity in all disciplines, and traditionally UWEC has been strong in undergraduate research, enhancing the universities efforts in diversity mentoring in the research process was prioritized through new programming efforts.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program