The Chair's Role in Faculty Mentoring is based on three thematically related vignettes. In these short scenes, the audience sees a chair welcome a new hire, discuss a third year review letter with a junior faculty member, and check in with a senior faculty mentor. Developed to showcase productive and problematic mentoring behaviors, this interactive performance allows chairs and other academic leaders to think through the ways that they might create a more positive climate for faculty mentoring. This piece prompts reflection on the benefits of both structural changes to department's policies and interpersonal shifts in the behaviors leaders adopt and use with their faculty colleagues.
The typical session length is 120 minutes. The Chair's Role in Faculty Mentoring is only offered as an in-person session.
- Consider ways that a chair’s mentoring choices might disadvantage a faculty colleague or negatively impact their perception of climate within the unit
- Work with similarly situated peers in other units to identify interpersonal and structural strategies to strengthen the mentoring relationship between chairs and their faculty
- Receive information about useful practices in faculty mentoring for junior faculty, senior faculty, and academic leaders
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