Letter of Recommendation
The Distinguished Mentoring Award nominations will be evaluated based on the positive educational and/or research experiences of the mentors' trainees, including the impact of mentorship on their subsequent professional and personal success. We encourage you to include specific references to the following criteria that the Nominee should exhibit in your Letter of Recommendation.
1. Offering sound guidance and valuable feedback to their mentees in order to advance and develop the mentee’s path to academic and professional success.
2. Generously share their valuable time to be accessible to their mentees. Impart guidance and expertise in encouraging and critiquing the mentee’s leadership, training, and/or scholarly works.
3. Encourage and include mentees in networking activities with other professionals; making valuable member-to-member and peer connections.
4. Evidence of sustained involvement in professional mentoring relationships that result in career growth or personal development of his/her mentees.
5. Serve as a role model for their colleagues by maintaining high standards for excellence within their own discipline and the greater institution.