The Research Boot Camp is an intense, one-week program designed to assist doctoral students and junior faculty members in the development of skills necessary for success in the academy. Senior scholars, statisticians, and theorists will facilitate workshops intended to help doctoral students conceptualize and design key components of their dissertations including:

• Research Question and hypothesis development
• Literature Review
• Conceptual Framework development
• Instrumentation
• Methodology
• Data analysis

These senior scholars will also assist junior scholars in the development of manuscripts for publication and clarification of a future research agenda. In addition to the research component, each participant will be linked with a mentor, either a junior or senior scholar, to help cultivate a mentoring relationship.