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>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
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>Subject: Mentor Project Questionnaire -- Beth Le Poire
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>TO: Interested COMM Scholars
>FROM:  Beth Le Poire
>
>Jennifer Waldeck and I are initiating an exciting study and are asking for
>your assistance in getting this research off the ground.  Our research is
>focusing on communication between academic mentors and their graduate
>students.  Our experiences collecting data in this area have revealed that
>participants are elusive.
>
>Consequently, we have posted our questionnaire on the WWW and are relying on
>networking for data collection in addition to traditional sampling
techniques.
>We believe that a greater number of mentored graduate students and their
>faculty mentors will have access to a WWW survey and find it more convenient
>than a traditional paper-and-pencil questionnaire.  Moreover, we believe that
>the comparisons between subjects likely to respond to a web-based
>questionnaire and those who complete a traditional questionnaire should be
>interesting.
>
>You can assist us in two ways.  First, please go to the site listed below and
>participate in the study.  If you are a faculty mentor, your participation
>entails completing the MENTOR portion of the survey (<5 minutes) and asking
>one or more of your graduate student proteges to complete the PROTEGE portion
>(<15 minutes).  If you are a graduate student protege, please complete the
>PROTEGE section and ask your faculty mentor to complete the MENTOR section.
>Detailed instructions are included on the opening page of the website.
>
>Second, please refer your colleagues and graduate students to the site and
ask
>them to participate.  One easy way to do this is to send an e-mail to them
>with the URL included.  The success of the project depends on our ability to
>network in order to obtain responses.
>
>The URL is:
>
>http://www.com.ucsb.edu/~mentor/
>
>We thank you for your help!!
>
>Beth Le Poire
>Jennifer Waldeck
>Department of Communication
>University of California, Santa Barbara
>