Please encourage women students to sign up for e-mentoring!

[Alice Bishop]

Please encourage your women engineering and science students to sign up 

for an online mentor through MentorNet, the E-Mentoring Network for 

Women in Engineering and Science.  Our school has joined MentorNet for 

the academic year so that you can offer this valuable service to women 

students.

This is a wonderful opportunity for students to learn more about 

engineering and science careers. Mentoring is an effective way to 

support women students and to increase their participation in the 

technical and scientific workforce, where less than 10% of the engineers 

and less than 30% of the scientists are women.

You can introduce your students to MentorNet by

* sending out the "Call for Students" email message (below)

* making announcements in class

* talking about the program during office hours

* distributing MentorNet flyers, which you can download and print

--as a Word document:

http://www.mentornet.net/Documents/Files/students_poster1.doc

--or in pdf format:

http://www.mentornet.net/Documents/Files/students_poster1.pdf

Students should apply via the MentorNet web site: www.MentorNet.net

For more information, please read the "Call for Students" copied below 

and visit the MentorNet web site at www.MentorNet.net.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Deborah Reid Bryant, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education

College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

3400 A.V. Williams

University of Maryland

College Park College Park, Maryland 20742

301)405-2677 phone (301)405-9377

fax www.cmps.umd.edu