DO-IT Mentors Application
Shape the future... be a DO-IT Mentor.
The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) electronic mentoring community provides an opportunity for students with disabilities to communicate via email and during program activities with Mentors and other students with disabilities. Your role as a DO-IT Mentor is a mix of friend and teacher. Your goal is to inspire and facilitate personal, academic, and career achievements in the DO-IT participants for whom you mentor. These mentees are college- capable students with disabilities pursuing challenging academic and career fields.
Do you have what it takes to be a DO-IT Mentor?
- Information
Mentors share their knowledge, experiences, and wisdom. - Contacts
Mentors provide valuable opportunities by facilitating academic, career, and personal contacts. - Challenges
Mentors stimulate curiosity and build confidence by presenting new ideas, opportunities, and challenges. - Support
Mentors encourage growth and achievement by providing an open and supportive environment. - Goal Setting
Mentors help mentees discover talents and interests and define and attain their goals. - Advice
Mentors guide mentees in reaching academic, career, and personal goals. - Role Models
By sharing stories of achievement with mentees, mentors can become role models.
How do DO-IT Mentors and mentees听communicate?
Mentors and mentees are not matched one-to-one but rather communicate through the use of large group email-based discussion lists. Frequent email communication combined with personal contact at DO-IT sponsored events, facilitates personal, academic, and career achievement.
DO-IT Mentors are subscribed to several electronic discussion lists:
- doitsem - A public forum to discuss STEM issues pertaining to individuals with disabilities.
- doitchat - A forum where DO-IT mentees and mentors interact.
- mentors - A discussion list for mentors.
- AccessSTEM - A forum where mentors with academic and/or professional backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields engage with mentees who are studying, teaching, and working in STEM.
- disability-specific lists - Where mentors and mentees each participate in special interest groups to discuss issues related to a specific disability area.
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Eligibility
College students, postsecondary faculty, and professionals from a variety of challenging academic and career fields are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Submit the , or submit the form by postal mail, fax, or email. Because safety is of particular concern for young people using the Internet, all Mentor candidates are asked to complete and return a Criminal Conviction & Civil Finding History Questionnaire. Once we receive your completed application, we will follow-up via email on the next steps for the background check and signing the AV release digitally.
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DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) serves to increase the successful participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. Primary funding for DO-IT is provided by the National Science Foundation, the State of 糖心原创, and the U.S. Department of Education. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #HRD-0227995 and #HRD-0833504. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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