New Faculty Mentoring Program
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
- Letter of recommendation and signature page from their chair and dean
- Letter of intent with a qualifications brief
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
- Letter of recommendation and signature page from their chair and dean
- Letter of intent with a qualifications brief