Faculty succeed when they have a network of mentors at different stages in their academic career. The Office of Faculty Affairs offers a program that provides a mentoring structure outside of a faculty member's home department that promotes honest and open dialogue about challenges, successes and issues experienced by faculty participants. The goal is not to replace department-level mentoring, but to add an additional layer of support for pre-tenure, tenured and non-tenure track faculty. Peer mentoring has the great potential to create new connections across colleges and disciplines and provides faculty members an opportunity to participate in non-judgmental, inclusive and supportive conversations.

Faculty facilitators will lead small groups of six to eight and convene monthly meetings during the nine-month academic year. Facilitators must be at a career stage-one milestone or greater than members of their group. No member of a group — facilitator or mentee — will be from the same department or program. Peer Mentoring Circles will be organized based on faculty status and professional and/or personal challenges indicated on the data survey. The program begins in fall 2021.

If you are interested in serving as a Peer Mentoring Circle facilitator, please fill out the survey and submit a current CV. Facilitators will receive training and also meet as a group occasionally to share ideas. 

If you interested in joining a Peer Mentor Circle — a peer group of six to eight colleagues — sign up today. You will be matched with two faculty facilitators and group of peers based on your data survey. To participate you must be able to attend mentoring sessions once per month during the academic year.