Faculty Career Development & Mentoring Program

Guiding Principles and Goals

Create a career development program for faculty members.
Set up a regular and effective means of mentoring and fostering individual career development.
Provide a systematic, coordinated program to help faculty identify, focus on, and achieve their individual career goals.
Establish guidelines for expectations for the faculty as well as for their mentors.
Each faculty member at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level will be paired with a mentor within the Department. The mentor should be an Associate Professor or Full Professor. This does not preclude having multiple mentors.
Mentor-mentee pairs are encouraged to meet regularly: suggested frequency every 3 months for Assistant Professors and every 6 months for Associate Professors.
Each faculty member at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level will be encouraged to seek a mentor outside of the Department, identified with the help of a departmental mentor (or other faculty) to provide supplemental guidance
For those conducting research, a research mentor either within or outside of the department is strongly encouraged.
The Faculty Career Development Committee will review individual faculty development, promotion timelines, and guide and support faculty members and their mentors.
Faculty members will have an annual review by the Faculty Career Development Committee, attended by the mentor and mentee.
Recommendations coming from the Faculty Career Development Committee will be forwarded to the faculty member and Department Chair as deemed appropriate by the committee.
The Department will continue to provide the infrastructure necessary to facilitate individual and departmental goals.
The Department will host an annual workshop focused on mentorship skills/training with topics solicited by Faculty Career Development Committee through discussions with mentees/mentors