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Mentoring Cluster Digital Repository presented by The GC English Department
For the past two years, our program has been running a structured cluster model of mentoring created, developed, and administered by team leader Nancy Silverman. (Each member of the grant team has participated in the clusters for the two years). Each cluster includes a faculty member, an alum, a continuing student, and a first year student. Members of the clusters have overlapping interests, whether in a specific area such as Early Modern Literature and/or in more general academic and professionalization topics such as demystifying graduate school. The clusters meet monthly either in full or in subsets to discuss topics including course selection, life after the Ph.D., Graduate Center resource sharing, and participating in conferences and professional organizations. (For the full list of monthly topics and cluster participants click here.) In significant ways this mentoring program has entered our curriculum. We imagine the mentoring clusters contributing to this shared Commons website to explore tools/resources related to digital media, enhancing their marketable skills and conducing to career paths outside academia. Training in digital media would also function as a public record of our mentoring and as a way to keep track of outcomes.
