UMass ADVANCE is currently seeking nominations for its 2025 Faculty Peer Mentor Awards and Equitable Practices in Collaboration (EPiC) Awards. Nomination materials for both awards must be received by Dec. 15.
Now in its sixth year, the ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award is distributed annually to each college and the UMass Libraries. The award highlights the critically important work faculty members perform in mentoring and supporting their colleagues’ professional development and success. Nominees should be faculty members who have excelled in mentoring fellow faculty in their department, school/college, or across the university. Because ADVANCE is focused on building a more inclusive faculty, nominations should explicitly state how the mentoring improves equity and inclusion within the school or college and/or the university.
The ADVANCE Equitable Practices in Collaboration (EPiC) Award recognizes faculty groups that practice effective, equitable and inclusive collaboration practices.
Faculty Mentor awardees will receive $250, and EPiC awardees will receive $500. All awardees will be profiled on the ADVANCE website and congratulated during the ADVANCE Annual Distinguished Lecture.
To nominate faculty peer mentor or EPiC faculty group by Dec. 15, visit www.umass.edu/advance.