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AAEA Mentoring Award

Deliberate, purposive, mentoring takes time and effort. Through the process of collaborating with a mentee, a mentor shows a mentee the ‘ropes’ of the profession, helps to identify and cultivate the mentee’s strengths, and opens networks and professional opportunities. To mentor is to commit time and effort. The benefits of mentoring—colleagues from diverse backgrounds staying in the profession and fully expressing their potential—are enjoyed by the entire profession.

The purpose of the Mentoring Award is to recognize individuals in our association who have systematically and consistently shown outstanding efforts in fostering junior, female and/or minority colleagues throughout their career. In order to properly assess the systematic and consistent nature of their mentorship efforts, only candidates with at least 10 years of experience in the profession will be considered for the award.

The AAEA community particularly values

  • Efforts to recruit and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds.
  • Co-authorship in publications and/or other collaboration that provides major learning opportunities for junior, female, and/or minority colleagues.
  • Helping graduate students to receive professional association awards such as Outstanding Thesis, Doctoral Dissertations, journal articles, paper competitions, etc.
  • Active advocacy for the professional advancement of these colleagues
  • Service to the economics/applied economics profession relating to mentoring.
  • Participation and presentations in workshops to promote mentoring.

Nomination Guidelines

  • Nominations are due by 11:59 pm CST on February 5, 2025.
  • Nominees must be 2025 members of AAEA.

Nomination materials

  • Nomination letter
    • Maximum of 3 single-spaced pages
    • The nomination letter must be written by a 2025 member of AAEA.
    • This letter should give examples (with the names of mentees) of how the nominee has systematically and consistently collaborated with, advocated for, and/or created growth opportunities for junior, female, and/or minority colleagues throughout their career.
    • The letter must include the nominee’s name, affiliation, and email address, as well as the nominator’s name, affiliation, and email address.
    • The file name of the letter should include the phrase ‘nomination letter.’
  • Current CV of the nominee
    • No more than 15 pages, 12-point font, Single line space, 1” margin on both sides.
    • Highlight mentoring activities, achievement, and accomplishment of mentorship.
  • Between 3 and 5 supporting letters, written by those mentored by the nominee.
    • Each supporting letter should be a maximum of 2 single-spaced pages.
    • Between 3 and 5 supporting letters, written by those mentored by the nominee.
    • The nomination letter and letters of support must focus on three things.
      • clearly described activities to promote/support others.
      • clearly described impacts and influences
      • significant and unique contributions to mentoring within and outside own institutions.
    • Letters should be written by those mentored by the nominee and illustrate the nominee’s mentoring efforts and how these changed the professional trajectory of the letter writer.

Please complete this form as well as submit any nomination materials to:

https://form.jotform.com/242334644015146

If you have any questions about your nomination, or the nomination process, please contact Michael Storey at mstorey@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190.

Evaluation The nominating letter, supporting letter, and CVs will be evaluated for evidence of i) clearly described activities to promote/support others ii) clearly described impacts and influences iii) significant and unique contributions to mentoring within and outside own institutions.