Faculty Mentoring Program
The following mentoring discussion was developed by the New Mexico INBRE Program and is presented here with permission as a service to the Delaware INBRE Community. http://www.nminbre.org/pages/resources/mentoring.jsp
Faculty Mentoring Program
Definition of Mentoring
A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide. In an academic setting, a mentor is generally a senior faculty member who advises or guides a junior faculty member in matters relating to achievement of academic success. In the INBRE, it is expected that the mentor will assist the mentee in creating an agenda for working toward his/her professional development goals and will provide the mentee with insights into the realities of building an academic career. As such, the mentor is an active participant in the process and does not serve merely as a role model for the mentee.
Evaluation and Reporting
The faculty mentoring program will have a uniform evaluation and reporting process. Important to this process is:
Selection of a mentor
Each junior faculty member can be assigned one or more mentors, at the rank of tenured associate professor, equivalent or above. If possible, the mentor will be a member of the mentees division and/or department, but the mentor may be chosen from among other faculty in New Mexico or outside of New Mexico if more suited on the basis of the mentee's academic program with approval by the Science Core Chair. The mentee may change mentors if he/she chooses with the Science Core Chair's approval. The mentor must have active NIH funding or have an established, successful NIH grant record.
Responsibilities of Delaware INBRE
The Delaware INBRE will provide regular workshops/tutorials dealing with the "survival skills" critical to developing a successful research career. These include grant writing, identifying funding opportunities, getting a grant through preaward, policies on use of animals and human subjects, FDA requirements, intellectual property, ethics, compliance, etc. The mentors will identify the workshops or tutorials that will be most relevant and beneficial to the mentee.
Responsibilities of a Mentor
The mentor must:
Responsibilities of a Mentee
The mentee must:
