Are you interested in being a peer mentor for a small group of our faculty? Faculty succeed when they have a network of mentors at different stages in their academic careers.

The Office for 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 support and professional development for pre-tenure, tenured and non-tenure track faculty. Peer mentoring has the great potential to create new connections across colleges and disciplines and allows faculty members to participate in non-judgmental, inclusive and supportive conversations.

Faculty facilitators will lead small groups of six to eight colleagues, convene monthly meetings during the 2023-24 academic year and participate in two facilitator workshops. Facilitators will typically 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 goals and interests indicated in the data survey. The program begins its fourth cycle in fall 2023.

Any tenured or non-tenure track full-time faculty member at an associate rank or higher can serve as a Peer Mentoring Circle facilitator.  We also invite recently retired faculty members to apply. The facilitation comes with extra compensation. If interested, please complete the survey and upload a current CV. 

Application deadline has been extended to Aug. 16. Peer Mentoring Circles will begin with a facilitator workshop in September.