{"id":176,"date":"2018-06-25T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:14:42","slug":"about-consortium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/about-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"About Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 14th 2019, Future of Research convened early career researchers (ECRs), academic leadership, and departmental administrators and staff from various universities and disciplines to discuss the mentoring of our future scientists. A central meeting was held at the Big10 Conference in collaboration with the University of Chicago, and satellite meetings organized at Boston University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, UW – Madison, UC – Irvine, and UC – Berkeley, to provide as much input as possible from a diverse group of stakeholders. Inspired by the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)<\/a> and The Center for Open Science’s TOP Guidelines<\/a>, the goal of the meeting was to produce a set of mentoring climate guidelines that would lead to actionable change at the department level in the way that ECRs are trained. The guidelines created span various domains and each contain three excellence tiers: bronze, silver, and gold. The purpose of the guidelines is three-fold:<\/p>\n

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  1. To be used as an assessment and planning tool by departmental leadership wishing to commit to actionable improvement and promote their training climates to prospective trainees.<\/li>\n
  2. To empower ECRs when making career transition decisions upon embarking in graduate school or postdoctoral training.<\/li>\n
  3. To create positive and transparent pressure towards departmental improvement, and be used in advocacy efforts by department staff and administrators or ECRs wishing for improvements in their departments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Read more details about the guidelines and the research supporting these recommendations in our recent publication<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Long term, Future of Research hopes this initiative will push for grassroots change towards greater transparency for ECRs regarding mentoring efforts at their departments and greater attention to training and mentoring standards by departments and institutions. We hope you enjoy using our site. While Future of Research is no longer an active organization, we hope our work can be built on by ECRs organizing for a better academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On June 14th 2019, Future of Research convened early career researchers (ECRs), academic leadership, and departmental administrators and staff from various universities and disciplines to discuss the mentoring of our future scientists. A central meeting was held at the Big10 Conference in collaboration with the University of Chicago, and satellite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9Q5MJ-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":912,"url":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/about-consortium\/additional-guideline-topics-under-development\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"Additional Guideline Topics Under Development","author":"JPRuiz","date":"November 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The 6 guideline areas we currently list are a minimum set of topics that all departments should be working to address. There are many systemic issues around departmental climate that cannot be easily addressed with these guidelines and straightforward excellence tiers. We have left these topics out not because they\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24,"url":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":1},"title":"Home","author":"JPRuiz","date":"May 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Departmental or training program policies have a huge impact on the health, well-being, and success of graduate students and postdocs, as well as on the scientific endeavor. So, Future of Research convened experts and early career researchers to define 6 major policy guidelines and 3 excellence tiers for STEM departments:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentoringfuturesci.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}