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CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty

 


The CSWEP CeMENT workshops are aimed at mentoring women and nonbinary faculty in tenure-track positions in economics departments or other institutions in North America with similar research, teaching, and service expectations. The workshop initiative is divided into two parts. The doctoral workshop admits faculty in departments granting PhDs in economics (or with similar research expectations) and the non-doctoral workshop admits faculty in departments without doctoral programs.

Based on feedback from past participants, potential applicants, and mentors, we have rescheduled the workshop. Instead of taking place at the 2025 ASSA meeting in San Francisco this past January, the workshop will now be held June 30 - July 2, 2025, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.  To apply, go to our common application portal which will soon be open.  The deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.

Each workshop consists of an intensive program beginning late afternoon on Monday, June 30th, and ending at 2 pm on Wednesday, July 2nd. You will be informed of your acceptance in early April 2025. The AEA will cover lodging and meals for all participants during the workshop. We expect that the number of qualified applicants will exceed the workshop's capacity. In this case, we will slightly prefer participants in the middle of the tenure clock and will seek to accommodate applicants who do not get a slot in future workshops. 

Participants will be arranged into small groups and assigned to mentors based on their research area. Group members and mentors discuss and offer feedback on the participants’ research and career development. In addition, the workshop includes a number of larger how-to sessions on topics such as: publishing, effective teaching, developing a tenure case, writing a grant, networking, and work/life balance.

For more information on the CeMENT experience, including research evidence showing statistically significant improvements in top-tier publications and the receipt of federal grants as a result of the workshop, click here.  Past workshop participants have received binders of professional development materials relating to publishing, teaching, grants, and other relevant topics. CSWEP is now making these materials available here.

We are excited about the opportunity to continue CSWEP's tradition of mentoring female junior faculty. We hope you will apply, and look forward to seeing you at one of our workshops.

** Senior economists: if you are interested in serving as a mentor for CeMENT or other CSWEP mentor programs, please send us your information by filling out the Google form located on our CSWEP Mentoring Opportunities page.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact info@cswep.org.