College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CASSH)

• Promote collegiality through mentoring
• Provide guidance and support for successful career enhancement and professional development for new faculty
• Assist in the retention and promotion of new faculty members
• Enhance the climate for quality teaching, research/creative endeavors, and service

• Successfully adjust to UWL and become an active member of the university community
• Learn the policies and procedures at UWL
• Learn how to negotiate academic culture
• Network with other faculty and develop at support system within the college and UWL

• Create a more welcoming and supportive organizational culture that enables new faculty from diverse backgrounds to be successful at UWL
• Reduce impediments to progress toward retention, promotion, and tenure
• Enhance the climate for quality teaching, research/creative endeavors, and service
• Identify resources to support teaching, research/creative endeavors, and service activities

Departments offer discipline-specific mentoring to their new faculty. Please contact your department chair for details.

• Attributes of a Good Mentor
• Best Practices for Faculty Mentoring
• Checking Accountability
• Considerations for First Meeting
• The 10 Commandments of Mentoring
• Top 10 Things New Faculty Like to Hear

• A Guide to Mentoring  from University of Kentucky
• Faculty Mentoring Models and Effective Practices  from Hanover Research
• Faculty Mentorship at Colleges and Universities  from University of Wisconsin-Platteville
• Handbook on Faculty Mentoring  from University of Ottawa
• Mentoring New Faculty: Advice to Department Chairs  from University of Washington, Seattle
• New Faculty Mentoring PowerPoint  from University of Maine
• Mentoring Resources  from Ball State University