Who We Are
Who We Are
 
Who We Are
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Hello! Nora, Ceal, and Patty welcome you  to the  Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG (#066). We have been meeting every month since June, planning for the upcoming Dissertation Award, and the Distinguished Paper Award (due this past August 15).  Next, we are working on the SIG Website and hope to publish a periodic newsletter. 

We wanted to share a bit about ourselves. We look forward to serving you, Nora, SIG Chair, and Ceal, SIG Secretary/Treasurer terms are for the next two plus years, and Patty will finish her three-year term as Program Chair in April 2024.

NORA DOMINGUEZ,  Ph.D., SIG Chair

Nora Dominguez, Ph.D., is the Director of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM), a Professional Consultant at the School of Medicine (SOM-UNM), Assistant Professor at the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences Department (OILS-UNM), Research Faculty for the Department of Internal Medicine (IM-UNM), and President Emeritus of the International Mentoring Association (IMA). Dominguez earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her M.B.A. from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), and her Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies from the University of New Mexico (UNM).

Nora has over 30 years of experience holding academic and management positions in banking and higher education institutions and providing consulting and program evaluation services in the United States and Mexico. She served at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Mentoring and Mentorship Practices SIG as Conference Program Chair (2019-2021) and currently serves as the SIG’s Chair (2023-2025). Dominguez is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Mentoring and Coaching (Emerald, UK)); co-author of the book Mentoring: Perspectivas Teóricas y Prácticas (2010), co-editor and chapter contributor of the SAGE Handbook of Mentoring (2017), chapter contributor of the Wiley International Handbook of Mentoring (2020), co-editor of the book Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia (2023), author of several articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and chief editor of the online journal The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching.

CECILIA (CEAL) D. CRAIG, Ph.D., SIG Secretary/Treasurer

Retired engineer, researcher, no affiliation
Ceal@research.druai.com

The mentoring SIG was helpful to me during my dissertation research over a decade ago. In my journey to become a researcher after retiring from three decades in engineering, the SIG focus matched my personal goal: Recruiting and retaining women in engineering and computer sciences careers. Mentoring practices, experiences, programs, and deficits are key success factors for achieving that goal. I’ve been active in AERA since 2010. First as a graduate student, then as a researcher, educator, and not-for-profit volunteer. Through 12 years with AERA, I have been a peer reviewer for the Mentoring SIG (and other SIGs and Divisions) for 11 of those 12 years. In AERA 2022, I was a discussant for one of the Mentoring SIG sessions (and another SIG); in 2018, helped the SIG with the Distinguished Paper award judging. I hope to help the Mentoring SIG grow and remain an active SIG as secretary. I’m committed to help!

BS Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University; MS Engineering, California State University, Fullerton; PhD Education, Walden University. Fellow, Society of Women Engineering.

Other relevant info: not-for-profit officer (President, Secretary, Treasurer, and more) for several education, engineering, arts, and environmental support groups for over thirty years.

DR. PATTY HORN, SIG Program Chair

It is my pleasure to serve as your Program Chair and I so appreciate all of you who have volunteered to be a reviewer, a chair for the session or a discussant. All of your work is appreciated. I’ve been involved with AERA since 2007.

My research interests is in mentoring and induction for PreK-8 beginning teachers. I am proud of the textbook that we published through Corwin, Toolkit for Mentor Practice, that is a go to resource for mentoring and induction.

I was privileged to be the founder of Teacher Induction Program (TIP) at Northern Arizona University for three years and implemented TIP throughout Arizona for nine years which included diverse K-12 school districts in the inner city, suburban, rural, and Native American schools. Over a nine-year period, there were 148 schools within 18 districts. Professional development was provided for 203 mentors and 2,162 first and second year teachers, which impacted 163,808 students. The association with full time mentors extended professional development for all stakeholders. The commitment of the partner districts to implement the components of the teacher induction program resulted in success for the districts, the mentors, the beginning teachers, and the students.

I am currently at Northern Arizona University as a Professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning in the College of Education. I am the Dean Emeritus at Grand Canyon University as well as serving through the years as an Associate Dean, a Chair, and many positions in-between.


Nice meeting you all virtually!  See you soon at an AERA conference!