Spencer Mentor Award

At Spencer, we are dedicated to the belief that high-quality research training and mentoring is a cornerstone of our field and worthy of recognition. As such, we are excited to announce the creation of the Spencer Mentor Award, a grant intended to support the ongoing mentorship of the winner. This award will provide a $25,000 grant to a nominated mentor who has demonstrated extraordinary contributions to supporting the research training and career trajectories of graduate students and junior scholars that engage in education research, broadly construed.

We see mentorship as critical to our goals of supporting – and broadening access to – rigorous, high-quality education research training. We recognize that mentorship comes in many forms and encourage nominations that make explicit and value the full range of these possibilities. Through this award, we hope to give added recognition to the importance of mentoring and acknowledge mentors who have enriched the lives, research, and careers of their students and colleagues, and in doing so, improved our field.

Deadline

Mentors must be nominated to be considered for this award (self-nominations will not be accepted). Nominations are due by 2:00pm central time on Friday, March 15, 2019, and the award will be publicly announced April 6, 2019, at Spencer’s annual American Education Research Association (AERA) reception in Toronto, Ontario.

For information about eligibility and how to submit a nomination, please see the right-hand side-bar menu.