Mentoring

Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring (TEAM) ADVANCE Professional Development Workshop Developing Your Mentoring Network, Part II: Making Connections and Building Mentoring Relationships As a mentee, it’s important to be proactive in developing your relationships with mentors. Perhaps you have … Read more

On Friday, November 6, TEAM ADVANCE will host a professional development workshop for early-career faculty. In Mentoring Up: Optimizing Mentoring Networks, adapted from the CIMER curriculum, participants will identify steps to take to engage with potential mentors, sponsors, and other … Read more

TEAM ADVANCE is hosting a professional development workshop for early-career faculty about preparing for their annual review meeting. Participants will review key points and strategies related to self-assessment, self-advocacy, and communication with their chairs (and/or departmental designees). Early-career faculty, fixed-term … Read more

ARS and faculty will discuss the role of the office, the accommodations determinations process, and the role faculty play within it. Additionally, we will discuss the role of syllabi and course design as tools to promote inclusivity. We will also … Read more

Carolina Women’s Center Director Dr. Gloria Thomas will be joined by a Gender Violence Services Coordinator to discuss the work of the center, how they support students, and how you can be an ally to your students regardless of their … Read more

TEAM ADVANCE will host a two-hour interactive workshop for department chairs, faculty development specialists, and other faculty and administrators involved in faculty mentoring plans. Participants will identify best practices for developing departmental faculty mentoring plans or programs. Attention will be … Read more

TEAM ADVANCE will host a one-hour interactive panel discussion featuring Drs. Herb Patterson (Eshelman School of Pharmacy), Aimee Wall (School of Government), and Wei You (College of Arts and Sciences), who will share lessons learned for effectively implementing a departmental … Read more

This interactive session introduces strategies for aligning faculty mentor and graduate student mentee expectations. Through discussion, review of case examples, and sample written expectations documents, participants will reflect upon the importance of establishing mentor-mentee expectations to their mentoring philosophies and … Read more

Among the many responsibilities of graduate student mentors is training them in best practices for ethical behavior in their disciplines. As part of an ongoing series of trainings for faculty who mentor graduate students, this session explores the ethical issues … Read more

An important goal in any mentoring relationship is helping the mentee become independent, yet defining what an independent mentee knows and can do is often not articulated by the mentor or the mentee. Defining what independence looks like and developing … Read more

Self-efficacy, an individual's belief in their capacity to execute the behaviors necessary to perform in a particular capacity, is essential for graduate students to be productive in their research. In this session, mentors will learn strategies to determine their mentees' … Read more