New Faculty Mentoring Program

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New Faculty Mentoring Program

Mentoring is a long term relationship that is mutually beneficial to both parties, providing a supportive, safe and enabling environment in which to develop to one's fullest potential.

Open to new tenure-track faculty members who will be in their 1st through 3rd years for the 2011-2012 academic year. Application to the program is required.

The purpose of the Faculty Mentoring Program is to develop:

  • an academic atmosphere that nurtures faculty through mutually appropriate mentoring in teaching and research
  • a program to competitively recruit and retain excellent faculty with additional attention to the needs of ethnic and minority faculty
  • an academic culture of interdisciplinary collegiality and collaboration in teaching and research

Providing:

  • Guidance
  • Development
  • Enhancement of individual abilities
  • Opportunities for conversation about teaching and research
  • Opportunities to connect with faculty across campus

New Faculty

Chosen participants will be given the following opportunities:

  • Individual mentoring by an experienced faculty member outside your department
  • Participation in a Learning Community comprised of eight new faculty members and two experienced faculty members
  • Registration to the Lilly Conference at Greensboro, a national teaching conference for higher education faculty
  • Opportunity to apply for $500 seed money for a teaching or research project of your design
  • The opportunity to apply for a $1000 mini-grant for research support in the second year you are in the program
  • The opportunity to participate in a summer grant-writing seminar

Mentors

  • Receive early summer training in mentoring
  • Receive $500 in an academic expense account
  • Have their own Learning Communities that meet monthly
  • Interested senior faculty must provide

Group Facilitators

  • Receive early summer training in group facilitation
  • Receive $500 in an academic expense account
  • Have their own Learning Community that meet monthly
  • Interested senior faculty must provide

 

Page updated: 23-Mar-2012

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New Faculty Mentoring Program
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
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EMAIL slphilli@uncg.edu