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Biology Leadership Conference 3 19 2010
1. Building a Mentoring Network Biology Leadership Conference March 19-21, 2010 Mary Deane Sorcinelli Associate Provost for Faculty Development Professor of Educational Policy, Research and Administration University of Massachusetts Amherst [email_address] . umass . edu www.umass.edu/ofd University of Massachusetts Amherst
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4. Sum ming It All Up “ The hardest thing is to do a good job with a career that could consume all available time, pay attention to a spouse and children, publish or perish, teach well, lead an examined life, and keep out of debt.” -- Early career faculty member
8. Traditional Mentoring Traditionally, mentoring in academia has taken the form of a one-on-one, hierarchal relationship in which a senior faculty member takes a junior faculty member “under his/her wing.” Early Career & Under-Represented Faculty Senior Faculty
9. Mutual Mentoring Mutual Mentoring is a network-based model of support that encourages the development of a wide variety of mentoring partnerships to address specific areas of knowledge and expertise. Early Career & Under-Represented Faculty Administrators Senior Faculty Near Peers Students External Mentor Writing Coach
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11. Multiple Points of Entry… and Exit (Gilles Trehin, 2006) Institution-Wide Departmental/ Interdisciplinary Individual Inter-Institutional
14. A Department-Wide MM “Team” Microbiology Mentoring After Internal Mentoring Partners External Mentoring Partners Spouses Peers Program Officers Senior Faculty Dept. Chair External Mentor
15. Biology. Team comprised of 9 faculty. Added teaching mentor; p eer and near peer mentoring workshops on improved lab management – money management, hiring lab staff, mentoring students in the lab, time management. Other Neat “MM” Team Ideas Chemical Biology. Team comprised of 15 pre-tenure faculty from four departments bridging life/physical sciences. Peer mentoring monthly luncheons on interdisciplinary teaching and research (engaging students interested in interface) and tenure. Life Sciences Women Faculty . Team comprised of 17 faculty from 8 departments. Established two small group networks; a visit, public talk, science seminar and mentoring meeting with prominent female scientist ; bi-annual networking gathering for all female STEM faculty.
17. Art & Art History : Enhance skills in teaching and creative activity. Individual Mutual Mentoring Dept. Colleagues External Mentor Small group mentoring of junior/senior colleagues Brought internationally-acclaimed artist to campus for one-on-one mentoring Large group mentoring of MFA graduate candidates and undergraduates in department Students
18. Biology: Learn new research/teaching skills and mentor students. Individual Mutual Mentoring cont’d Visited lab of senior colleague for one-on-one mentoring in lab techniques used for field study Small group mentoring of students/ peers back in her department External Mentor Students
19. Engineering : Enhance teaching skills. Individual Mutual Mentoring cont’d Small group mentoring from two award-winning faculty in department Team-taught course in Thermodynamics with department chair; One-on-one mentoring on teaching practices after each class External mentoring at career development workshop at professional conference Dept. Chair External Mentor Dept. Colleagues
20. English : Further work on book writing and student writing. Individual Mutual Mentoring cont’d Peer mentoring partnership that met twice monthly to work on own writing, discuss student writing External mentoring of pair by editor and writing coach Editor/Writing Coach Peer
31. Why Mutual Mentoring Works “ Mutual Mentoring is such a commonsense approach to learning…it mirrors the academic mission itself in that it encourages discourse and values the experiences of everyone in the room, no matter their rank.”
The M3 Grant Program stands for “ M ellon M utual M entoring” G rant P rogram, which is is based largely on the $5000 pilot grants that we distributed last year. Some things to note about the M3 Program… These are grants that support TEAMS of faculty who want to develop a Mutual Mentoring project at the departmental, school/college, interdisciplinary or inter-institutional levels. For example, a department might want to create a group mentoring initiative like the Psychology Department did with their pilot grant, in which they paired up all of their new faculty with two mentoring partners - a near peer and a senior faculty member, all of whom met regularly throughout the year to discuss issues of teaching, research, and tenure. This kind of Mutual Mentoring project could also happen within a school/college or interdisciplinary context. And as for an inter-institutional example, if, let’s say, the Sociology department here at UMass Amherst wanted to create mentoring project involving Sociology Faculty from one or more of the Five Colleges, that’s a proposal that we’d love to see. So, in the upcoming academic year, we’ll distribute up to ten grants of up to $15,000 each. Basically, the idea behind these grants is to support teams of faculty who want to make use of the network-based Mutual Mentoring model to address context-specific issues that affect their new or underrepresented faculty.