Faculty Mentoring Programs

General Programs

• Office of Faculty Affairs – Faculty Mentoring Program
  Using a group mentoring model, faculty can join mentoring groups of 3 to 5 junior faculty and 1 to 2 senior faculty, grouped by academic interests or disciplines.  Organized by the Office of Faculty Affairs.
• Faculty Affairs Brown Bag Mentoring Series
  Senior faculty lead lunchtime discussions that will give junior and mid-career colleagues a chance to talk informally about some of their experiences and to network with others.

Specific Programs

• Library Faculty Mentoring Program 
  The mentoring program is designed to benefit new faculty by helping them to successfully negotiate the UIC review, promotion, and tenure process, to learn the research process, and to understand UIC faculty activities outside the Library.
• Underrepresented Faculty Mentoring Program (UFMP)
  Contact Laura Stempel (lstempel@uic.edu) or Juan-Carlos Campuzano (jcc@uic.edu)
• BIRCWH – Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health
  The overall purpose of this BIRCWH program is to institutionalize a generative scholar training program that will optimize the success of junior faculty in developing a substantive and sustained research program in women’s health science.
• Center for Clinical and Translational Science – Scholars Program
  The CCTS Scholars Program will pair selected scholars with mentors who will provide appropriate guidance in developing individualized curricula and career plans to help them become national leaders in interdisciplinary clinical and translational

• University of Michigan
  Report on mentoring study and recommendations
• University of Maryland Senate Task Force on Mentoring
• University of Colorado Administrative Policy on Faculty Development and Mentoring

INFORMATION ABOUT EXPECTATIONS FOR MENTORS AND MENTEES

• Mentoring Expectations – from the USDA, a list of expectations for mentors and mentees
• University of Washington – Advice on Managing a Mentoring Relationship
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County – Mentoring Tool Kit

INFORMATION FOR FACULTY WHO MENTOR POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Individual Development Plan for Postdoctoral Fellows
  A guide from FASEB
• AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and their Mentors

These sites include mentoring program descriptions and structures, evaluation forms, and bibliographies of articles on mentoring.

• University of Michigan
  • Summary of best practices of mentoring of junior faculty
• University of California, San Diego
• Marquette University
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical School Faculty Mentoring Guidebook
• University of Guelph
  Summary of best practices on faculty mentoring

• University of Michigan NSF ADVANCE Program Career Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty
  
• NIH Mentoring Guide
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical School Faculty Mentoring Guidebook
  Great information for both mentors and mentees.  Geared towards clinical faculty, but useful for a wide variety of disciplines.
• University of Pennsylvania
  A guide for mentor/mentee relationships, broken down by faculty track and year.  Designed for medical school faculty
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for PostDocs and New Faculty (2nd Edition)
  Free downloadable guide for junior faculty in the sciences, includes a chapter on mentoring and being mentored.
• University of Washington
  For mid-career faculty
• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend:  On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering.  National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
  A useful book about mentoring students, free on-line