Mentoring Resources

Mutual Mentoring Guide

To support the development of innovative, faculty-driven Mutual Mentoring partnerships, the OFD has created a Mutual Mentoring Guide, which discusses the state of mentoring in academia; explains the benefits of the Mutual Mentoring model; provides suggestions for protégés, mentors, and department chairs; and describes sample mentoring projects.

Mutual Mentoring Guide

Finding a Mentor

In a recent issue of the National Education Association’s Thriving in Academe, the OFD’s Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Jung Yun published an article detailing how faculty can design their own flexible Mutual Mentoring networks. For more information, see below.

Finding a Mentor

Other Important Resources

• How to Succeed in the Academy: A Chair’s Advice to Junior Faculty on the Tomorrow's Professor Blog created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, provides seven concise mentoring tips.
• “From Mentor to Mentoring Networks: Mentoring in the Academy,” in Change magazine, discusses numerous mentoring studies, models, and programs.
• Principles of Good Practice contains information for department chairs on how to support early-career faculty through distinct principles such as improving review and tenure processes, encouraging positive relations with colleagues and students, and easing stresses of time and balance.
• Ten Things That New Faculty Want to Hear contains advice on how to improve the quality of academic life.
• The Office of the Provost posts information relevant to the careers of all faculty, including the Faculty Guide and the Academic Personnel Policy (also known as “The Red Book”).