Appendix G: Faculty Mentoring Resources

University of California, Berkeley Faculty mentoring is a valuable investment in Berkeley's future academic excellence. Academic excellence depends on the ability of Berkeley's faculty to do their very best work throughout their academic careers. The Vice Provost Office for the Faculty has developed a website with detailed information about faculty mentoring programs at Berkeley at: http://vpaafw.chance.berkeley.edu/mentoring/.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/advance/home

Committee on Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) The committee leads workshops for faculty and administrators involved in hiring. It also works with departments by meeting with chairs, faculty search committees, and other department members involved with recruitment and retention.

Network to Advance Women Scientists and Engineers which is composed of faculty in science and engineering across the entire campus, meets several times each year to socialize, to talk about issues the members have in common, and to develop plans for the future. The Network provides women faculty in science and engineering with opportunities to define collective goals and to get to know one another. University of Michigan Network to Advance Women Scientists and Engineers Resources: Faculty Career Advising
Career advising interest form
Giving and Getting Career Advice: A Guide for Junior and Senior Faculty
Research on Policies & Practices at UM
Elizabeth C. Crosby Research Fund
Book: Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women

Friends and Allies of STRIDE Toward Equity in Recruiting (FASTER)
The purpose of FASTER is to expand the circle of senior faculty who are knowledgeable about the role that unconscious bias can play in recruitment and evaluation of faculty, as well as how it can contribute to an unpleasant and counter-productive work environment.

Faculty Career Advising
We are interested in creating opportunities for more and less experienced women scientists to have an initial conversation that might or might not lead to a longer-term relationship. That conversation (and potential relationship) might involve discussion of general career issues, or it might focus on a particular area or domain.
Rackham School of Graduate Studies Faculty Career Advising Booklet
Office of the Provost Mentoring Program
Reading list (annotated)

University of Michigan Science Mentoring Resources:
Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Post Doctoral and New Faculty, is a handbook designed for basic science investigators from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
AAAS: Science Mentoring

http://www.faculty.harvard.edu/development-and-mentoring
Harvard has a web link to "mentoring " in its Office of Faculty Development and Diversity web site. The web site includes a list of articles on faculty mentoring.

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/1006/6a.shtml
New Post for Faculty Equity : Girgus appointed special assistant to dean of the faculty. In a report released Sept. 29, 2003, the University's Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering called for the creation of the position to help implement its recommendations. She will work with Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin to develop a strategic plan to recruit women faculty as well as take on other projects to improve the climate for women at the University.

http://facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/prospectivefaculty.html

Stanford has resources for new, prospective, and junior faculty in the "Resources for Faculty" section on their Faculty Development and Diversity Office's website. There is a formal faculty mentoring program in the School of Medicine: http://facultymentoring.stanford.edu/

Women Faculty Forum
http://www.yale.edu/wff/

Junior Faculty Mentoring Program
http://www.yale.edu/wff/pdf/ElementsYaleJuniorFacultyMentoringProgram.pdf

Campus Strategic Plan

http://stratplan.duke.edu/ch04/6.html

http://advance.washington.edu/
http://advance.washington.edu/resources/mentoring.html

Mentoring Women for Academic Leadership
ADVANCE has designed a leadership development program, called the Mentoring-for-Leadership Lunch series, to encourage women faculty to consider and pursue positions of academic leadership. Each month, a different woman leader discusses her career trajectory and the benefits and challenges of holding an administrative job.

Mentoring Pre-Tenure Faculty
For pre-tenure faculty, ADVANCE has developed a group mentoring program rather than using the traditional one-on-one mentoring model. The mentoring opportunities occur at a peer level and across ranks. Mentoring activities include informal lunches, topical workshops, and other opportunities to share resources and information.

Professional Development Consultants
The ADVANCE CIC is piloting a program called Professional Development Consultants to help create transparency in the promotion & tenure process. This pilot program is available for the women faculty in ADVANCE departments and if it is well received, it will be expanded to all ADVANCE faculty.