External Career Mentoring Teams (ECMT)

External Career Mentoring Teams (ECMT) are a component of the Northeastern ADVANCE program to strengthen women's national and international networks. The goal of the ECMT's is to identify mentors from outside Northeastern to help women break into professional networks outside the institution. A rich contact network that links to different groups as well as a heterogeneous network with loose connections for career progression translates into building the reputation and name recognition required for tenure and promotion. Thus, we see ECMT's as a means to accelerate development of strong and trusted networks for research, as well as loosely connected heterogeneous networks to support reputation development for women. Department chairs are critically involved in this mentoring activity and they will engage these Northeastern Advance Career Mentors in activities that will benefit the whole department by creating opportunities with a broader group of faculty.

The Northeastern departments that are participating in External Career Mentoring Teams are:

Biology and Biochemistry
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pharmaceutical Science
Pharmacy Practice