University of Washington

The University of Washington Information School will enroll a cohort of four students from traditionally underrepresented groups in a doctoral fellowship program that will become a model for intensive mentoring in library and information science doctoral education. The goals of this project are to mount a vigorous recruitment effort to attract a highly competitive pool of students from traditionally underrepresented groups; to provide intensive faculty mentoring for those students; to provide intensive mentoring and engagement with library leaders in the Seattle area; and, based on these mentoring efforts, to create a model of intensively mentored doctoral education for library and information science.