Mentoring New Faculty

Mentoring New Faculty

I’ve been reading about different systems and advice for mentoring new faculty members, and here are some of the highlights and must-reads on my list.

Advice for faculty

• 22 pieces of advice for being a good professor

Model programs

• UCSD’s Faculty Mentoring Program looks exemplary
• A 2005 report from the University of Guelph

Advice for administrators

• Mentoring New Faculty: Advice to Department Chairs: a classic article from 1993, still resonant
• A list of ideas and strategies from Michigan’s Provost
• A 1996 report on developing mentoring programs [PDF]

Surveys of programs and resources

• A report surveying of different mentoring programs [PDF], from Emory to UCSD
• A collection of Faculty Mentoring Resources from Harvard
• And another from Michigan State