RFP: Graduate Center-Hostos Research Mentors, Spring 2025

The Hostos Research Center at Hostos Community College seeks six Graduate Center doctoral students, from any discipline, to serve as research mentors for Hostos Research Center Scholars during the Spring 2025 semester. In this role, Graduate Center students will provide research mentorship to selected Hostos students, culminating in a public presentation of that research at the end of the Spring 2025 semester. The research may be drawn from the doctoral student’s dissertation research, or developed specifically for the purposes of this program.

Responsibilities

• GC-HRC Mentors will commit 8 hours per week to this project during the Spring 2025 semester, starting the week of January 27.
• GC-HRC Mentors will spend part of at least one day in-person weekly at the Hostos Research Center at Hostos Community College. HRC Scholars will also have opportunities to visit the Graduate Center for mentorship as well.
• Mentors will design, scope, and support a 15 week research project in collaboration with their mentee, culminating in a public research artifact, poster, or presentation. Projects featuring research relevant to the communities Hostos Community College serves will be prioritized.
• Mentors will participate in a one-day training on January 21, 2025, developed by the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, and report bi-weekly to an assigned faculty mentor from Hostos Community College on the status of their projects.
• Both mentors and mentees will keep weekly research journals, to be shared internally with faculty and staff involved with the project. Mentors will also be expected to participate in a program assessment at the end of the Spring semester.

Compensation

Selected doctoral student mentors will be paid $6000 through the CUNY Research Foundation.

Eligibility

All currently-enrolled Level II and III doctoral students in good academic standing are eligible for this opportunity.

To Apply

Combine the following into a single PDF titled LastName_GC-HRC.pdf and send to tlc@gc.cuny.edu by 9am on December 6:

• a statement of no more than 500 words briefly describing the research project, the role imagined for the undergraduate student from Hostos Community College, and how the applicant intends to support the student.
• A short cv (no more than two pages)
• And, if applicants are proposing a laboratory-based project, a letter of support from the lab’s PI indicating their willingness to host a Hostos undergraduate student in the lab.

A short-list of applicants will be invited to meet with the faculty Co-directors of the Hostos Research Center the week of December 16th for final selection.

About the Hostos Research Center Scholars Program

The Hostos Research Center (HRC) Scholars Program is a new initiative that aims to increase the participation of high achieving Hostos students in mentored research provided by Hostos faculty and CUNY Graduate Center (GC) students. The HRC Scholars Program will engage students across all disciplines in research experiences that will support their academic growth, promote retention and graduation, and build career readiness skills. The HRC Scholars Program provides a $5,000 stipend for a one-year commitment to mentored research through one academic year and summer. The HRC Scholars Program will enroll up to 15 students in 2024-25. Recent examples of research sponsored through the Hostos Research Center that have engaged Hostos students as research assistants can be found here.

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