Mentoring Tips
Check out these useful tips from the Mutual Mentoring Program Guide (Sorcinelli, Yun, & Baldi, 2018, linked below).
The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity has excellent mentoring resources as well. UMass Amherst is an institutional member, so faculty and librarians can access many pod-casts, workshops, and other helpful information through their website. It’s free to sign up with your UMass ID. Sign up here! Here are a few to check out:
- Webinar: "Cultivating your network of mentors, sponsors, & collaborators"
- Resource: Mutual Mentoring Map
- Webinar: "Networking for Introverts (and Extroverts, Too!): How to make the most of your next conference"
Mentoring Tools for Departments and Faculty
Departmental Mentoring Plan Guidelines
Guidelines from the Provost for Creating Formal Mentoring Structures at the Department Level
Mentoring Plan for Promotion
A Tool to Support Timely Career Guidance and Mentoring for Associate Professors
UMass Amherst ADVANCE Program Mentoring Plan Template
One of several tools offered by ADVANCE to support departments in creating a more inclusive and equitable environments.
Mutual Mentoring Program Guide for Institutions
Interested in launching your own mentoring program at your institution? The comprehensive Mutual Mentoring Program Guide (Sorcinelli, Yun, & Baldi, 2018) provides helpful information on the Mutual Mentoring program at UMass Amherst, examples of projects, and guidance for building a productive mentoring network. *UMass Amherst NetID login required
Additional Resources
- Mutual Mentoring for Early-Career and Underrepresented Faculty: Model, Research, and Practice, published in Innovative Higher Education, describes the conceptualization, design, implementation, and evaluation of a Mutual Mentoring initiative from 2006 to 2014.
- Institutional Approaches to Mentoring Faculty Colleagues, published in Inside Higher Education by Joya Misra, Ember Skye Kanelee and Ethel L. Mickey; March 18, 2021
- “When Mentoring is the Medium” published in To Improve the Academy, describes the evolution of the Mutual Mentoring model at the University of Massachusetts.
- “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”).