Faculty Can Apply to be Mentors in the Peer Mentoring Circles Program by Aug. 15
Are you interested in being a peer mentor for a small group of our faculty? The Office for Faculty Affairs offers the Peer Mentoring Circles program that provides mentorship outside of a faculty member's home department. To participate as a peer mentor for this program, apply by Aug. 15.
Peer Mentoring Circles promote honest and open dialogue about challenges, successes and issues experienced by faculty. 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 Circles help create new connections across colleges and disciplines and allow faculty members to participate in non-judgmental and supportive conversations.
Faculty facilitators will lead small groups of six to eight colleagues, convene monthly meetings during the 2024/2025 academic year and participate in two facilitator workshops. Facilitators are typically 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.
Any tenured or non-tenure track full-time faculty member at an associate professor rank or higher can serve as a Peer Mentoring Circle facilitator. The facilitation comes with extra compensation. If interested, please complete the application and upload a current CV.
Applications are due Aug. 15, 2024. Peer Mentoring Circles will begin with a facilitator workshop in September.
Contacts
Stephanie Adams, director of faculty development
Office for Faculty Affairs
479-575-3150,
sgadams@uark.edu
Lyndsay Bradshaw, assistant director of executive communications
University Relations
479-575-5260,
lbrads@uark.edu
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