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Faculty Mentoring at 91原创
Faculty mentoring is an important part of our faculty success support and programming. At 91原创, faculty mentoring occurs through formal and informal mentoring.聽 While formal mentors are assigned at the department level, informal mentoring opportunities are available across the university.聽
Please see a list of available faculty mentoring resources and opportunities below.
91原创 ADVANCE works with deans and chairs to support formal mentoring within departments. Under this program, faculty are assigned a mentor (or mentors) from within their department to help them navigate departmental, college, and university policies and practices.聽 For more details about formal faculty mentoring, please see the ADVANCE resources.
General Resources for Mentors and Mentees
- Formal Faculty Mentoring: Suggested Topics for First Year
- Mentoring Checklist (Suggested Topics)鈥揝TEM focused (1-page formatted PDF)
- Suggested Mentoring Topics鈥揌umanities focused (English Dept)
- Formal Mentoring Template
- Formal Mentoring FAQ
- 91原创 Online Resources for New Faculty
- Discussing 2- and 4-year peer reviews
- Discussing annual appraisals
- Writing and Evaluating COVID-19 Impact Statements for P&T
- Tips for saying no
91原创 Policy Information for Mentors and Mentees
- Family-friendly Policies for Faculty
- 聽(91原创elNet ID required)
91原创 Resources for Informal (Not assigned) Mentoring
- 91原创 ACHIEVE聽(small-group mentoring, short courses, etc.)
91原创 ACHIEVE offers a small-group mentoring program in the fall and spring semesters. This program provides an accountability and support system as well as resources and peer-mentoring to help faculty members succeed even with occasional, unforeseen challenges.聽 These groups meet weekly. For more information, please email achieve@udel.edu
The Office of Human Resources will be piloting a new, semester-long faculty mentoring program that will help orient newly hired faculty members to living and working at 91原创, build connections across campus, and foster a sense of community. This cohort-based program will start in Fall 2024 and run each year. For more information, contact Laura Soltys.
The Graduate College provides training and consultations for faculty to help them nurture confidence in their graduate student and foster student career success.聽 More information can be found on their mentoring website.
The Research Office at 91原创 provides mentoring and training for success in grant writing. Along with a research orientation, the Research Office offers year-long proposal academies for NIH and NSF.聽 More details can be found on their .
The Library also to assist faculty with the successful navigation of their research and creative career path. The workshops cover a broad range of topics from how to find grant funding agencies, to developing data management plans, to best practices in data analysis and visualization. The and are there to support individual faculty members and their students in effective research practices through consultation and customized presentations.
Twice a year, Faculty Affairs hosts a mentoring workshop to connect faculty, chairs, and associate deans to mentoring resources and discuss current faculty mentoring topics.聽