2013 Faculty Networking Seminars

Mentoring

"Mentors are guides. They lead us along the journey of our lives. We trust them because they have been there before. They embody our hopes, cast light on the way ahead, interpret arcane signs, warn us of lurking dangers and point out unexpected delights along the way." L.A. Daloz

Mentoring fosters the professional growth of its mentors and mentees and facilitates effective communication and connectivity among those who participate in the process.  Mentoring is both a formal and informal activity, and can address all aspects of academic life, from approaches to achieving work life balance to advice about professional milestones that must be reached in order to advance through the ranks.  In addition to one-to-one pairing of junior faculty with more senior faculty, faculty mentoring may include department social events, invitations to professional conferences, teaching and research collaborations, and developing individual career plans.  Junior faculty are encouraged to have a network of peers and more senior colleagues as mentors and advisors to get a complete overview of the requirements for academic success.

This section of the website is designed to support efforts by Departments and Schools to advance faculty mentoring at Tulane University. Links to guidelines, resources, references, tools, principles and best practices for faculty mentoring and information about other University faculty mentoring programs are available on this page.

In providing these guidelines and resources for mentorship, we realize that there is no one standard model for mentorship across the university. Rather, these guidelines are designed to promote the development of unique programs that are tailored to the circumstances, traditions and values of individual departments and schools and are attentive to mentoring across differences (e.g., gender, race, culture, and generational lines).

Mentoring Principles and Practices at Tulane University

Mentoring is an important topic in faculty development at Tulane University, and has been a subject of discussion in many committees over the past two years.    

Tulane University participated in the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey in spring 2009. This survey focused on full-time, tenure-track faculty satisfaction with the promotion and tenure processes, the nature of faculty work, work-life balance, and collegiality and was administered online to full-time, tenure-track faculty from all schools. The survey results indicate a need for increased professional development activities. -CLICK HERE FOR MORE-

Mentors and Mentees

Department Chair Resources

Related Sites (links to other institutions' mentoring programs)

Grant-Writing Resources

Teaching Resources

Publishing Resources

 

Scientific Presentations Resources

Best Practices at Tulane

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