Faculty Advising Faculty explores the ways that senior faculty members mentor their junior colleagues. Through facilitated dialogue, audience members consider the differing relationships and professional outcomes that can result from these processes. Highlighting the dissimilar experiences of two assistant professors with the same mentor, it examines the many factors, both individual and institutional, that can hinder or foster effective mentoring at the faculty level. This sketch was commissioned by the U-M ADVANCE Program.
The typical session length is 90 -120 minutes. Faculty Advising Faculty is only offered as an in-person session.
In this session, participants will:
- Identify common issues and dynamics that can undermine the success of faculty mentoring relationships.
- Consider the particular challenges that poor mentoring can have on the experience and outcomes of faculty who hold institutionally underrepresented and/or marginalized identities.
- Generate role-appropriate strategies and/or structural supports that can strengthen faculty mentoring relationships and improve the quality of advice available to junior faculty members.
What people have said about Faculty Advising Faculty
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I was surprised at how familiar, and uncomfortable, the role play was for me. I found viewing the situation as an observer empowering as I came to see that my personal experience may actually be a common human experience.
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