RAC MENTORING AND TRAINING FRAMEWORK EDUCATIONAL GUIDELINES

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Research Advisory Board (RAC) advises the AASHTO Standing Committee on Research (SCOR), works with the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), performs high-value research, and works with the Transportation Research Information System (TRIS) and Research in Progress (RIP) systems. As such, RAC members perform many important functions. When they are promoted to their positions, many new RAC members lack a working knowledge of RAC's background, function, and resources. This knowledge is necessary to operate their state department of transportation (DOT) research program successfully, and maximize their function within the committee. New RAC members run the risk of being generally unaware and uninformed of the full scope of their duties, responsibilities, capabilities, contacts, and resources as RAC members. New RAC members need proper orientation instruction. As part of a program to inform, instruct, and provide assistance to new RAC members, RAC has developed an orientation program called RAC 101, and designed a Mentor-Protege Program. The objective of both RAC 101 and the Mentor-Protege Program is that new RAC members quickly and easily assimilate into the RAC community to maximize their effectiveness in their new roles and for their state DOT. RAC has long needed vehicles to build organizational identify and develop knowledge among its members. These two initiatives can help the organization move toward those goals. The pilot RAC 101 session was well received and is already being modified for future use. The mentoring program has been fleshed out and awaits implementation. Both programs have a good chance of success, but their ultimate fate depends on senior RAC member support.

• Record URL:
  https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/19000/19900/19992/PB2003101945.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Pennsylvania State University, University Park

  Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, Transportation Research Building
  University Park, PA  United States  16802

  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Planning and Research
  400 North Street, 6th Floor
  Harrisburg, PA  United States  17120-0064

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Anderson, J A
  • Davenport, A F
  • Horton, M A
• Publication Date: 2002-9-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 49 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Committees; Education and training; Professional personnel; Research management
• Identifier Terms: AASHTO Research Advisory Board; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mentoring; New member orientation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Research; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00939708
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWAPA-2002-026-97-04-115, PTI 2003-05,, Final Report
• Contract Numbers: 359704, WO 115
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Mar 7 2003 12:00AM