Course info

Course name, Mentoring: A Key to Faculty Success

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success Type of course Career Support & Advancement


About the course

Upcoming Classes

No classes scheduled

Description

Developing mentoring relationships can be a crucial part of an academic experience for new faculty. Departments that provide the best mentoring practices investigate and customize programs that are best suited for their specific departmental culture and field. This workshop is intended to increase chairs' and faculty members’ awareness of campus resources to support mentoring. Participants will be familiarized with the process of designing a mentorship for faculty and how to assess mentoring outcomes.

Facilitator: Gary Walker, Department of Biology and Faculty and Academic Development

Objectives

  • Design a mentorship for junior faculty.
  • Differentiate mentoring approaches; for example, constellation approaches vs. one-on-one interaction.
  • Diagnose and treat mentorship dysfunction.
  • Assess mentoring outcomes

Prerequisites

None

Administrators

  • Brian Smentkowski

Please contact a course administrator for additional information.