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ASU Convening on Faculty Mentorship: Think Tank 2

November 13-14, 2018

Introduction Slides

Ann McKenna, Professor & Director

The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Annual review and formative feedback
• Develop approaches to mentorship, work with school leadership/faculty

to implement ideas

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• New faculty community of practice
• Master mentor model within each school
• Coordination between Dean’s office and schools

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Help define EFIC as a resource to the community
• Better understand aspects of mentorship that lead to impact

ann.mckenna@asu.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Host annual Department Chairs Conclave addressing various topics

including supporting faculty.

• Host events that connect faculty.

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Provide opportunities to connect with peers nationwide, informally

extending professional networks of potential mentors/mentees.

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Establish formal processes to connect members seeking to establish

mentorship relationships.

• Disseminate effective faculty mentorship guidelines in accessible ways

for different audiences.

Rocio Chavela Guerra

Director, Education and Career Development, ASEE

r.chavela@asee.org

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Formal orientation, weekly brown bags, industry/faculty connections
• Meet regularly with faculty to clarify expectations (as dean)
• Build a culture of mentoring across the college

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Year long faculty development program starting with new faculty
• rientation (NFO)

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Support faculty across the continuum of their careers
• Cross-institutional mentoring (using some lessons learned from our work

in IEEE Educational Activities)

• S. K. Ramesh, Director AIMS2 program & Professor of Electrical and

Computer Engineering

California State University, Northridge

Add photo here s.ramesh@csun.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• With others, developing a STEM Faculty Development Research Agenda

with funding from the NSF

• Research in Faculty Mentorship (looking for partners!)
• Leader for a STEM Faculty Learning Community
• Steering Committee for Clemson Advance Grant

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Faculty Learning Communities

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Develop a consistent and sustainable mentoring program for faculty of all

ranks and positions (including instructors and non tenure track faculty)

Karen High, Professor, Engineering and Science Education

Clemson University

khigh@clemson.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Sponsor a variety of faculty development opportunities as part of a mission

intended to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in the next generation What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Funds activities through close partnerships
• Recognizes the importance of faculty
• Aims toward community and societal well-being and flourishing

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Academic Lead. Support and promote faculty mentoring that meets

simultaneously meets a need for (i) the individual faculty member, (ii) multiple institutions, (iii) the mission of the Kern Family Foundation

• Seamlessly connect faculty mentorship to other initiatives

Doug Melton, Program Director

Kern Family Foundation

dmelton@kffdn.org

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• University-wide new faculty interdisciplinary mentoring committee program
• Mid-career women in STEM faculty success plans/fellowship
• Support evaluation of each

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Welcome new faculty
• Create expectation (culture) for faculty success and access to pre-tenure

mentorship

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Train mentors
• Enhance mentoring for all (NTT, post-tenure via other prof or leadership

dev)

• Move towards faculty development plans with support for pivots (scholarly
• r administrative) with guides for evaluation by chairs/P&T
• Dept. Chairs mentoring/prof development

Marci Levine, co-Director, ADVANCE Center for Women STEM Faculty

Lehigh University

mjl410@lehigh.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Held a yearly symposium for engineering educators; attempt to keep

up-to-date with research literature

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Events and workshops that bring together faculty (and others) to

discuss a variety of topics

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Host a series of workshops that would gather data and research on

effective mentoring, with the ultimate goal of conducting a full consensus study to provide recommendations

Beth Cady, Acting Director of Programs

National Academy of Engineering

Add photo here

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Develop and deliver programmatic opportunities that (1) engage senior faculty with

early/mid-career faculty; (2) catalyze peer-to-peer mentoring; (3) celebrate exemplary faculty mentors; (4) connect faculty with funding agencies; (5) advise college administrators.

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Equips incoming faculty with intensive teaching/research orientation to strategically

address early career challenges, connect them w/administration and mentors, and “quick start” their faculty careers.

• Utilize faculty sages to create mentoring culture for TT and NTT faculty at all ranks.

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Create a climate where mentoring is consistently fostered and available as a

natural outflow of departmental culture.

• Employ technologies to increase consistent participation in mentoring

initiatives; connect our faculty across platforms to do effective mentoring.

Barbara Smith, Assistant Director, Faculty Advancement

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Meet regularly with Jr. Faculty and Women Faculty (Dean)
• Developed College-wide orientation for new faculty (Dean)
• Expect Chairs to set goals related to faculty mentorship (Dean)
• Assign new hires a departmental mentor (as Head)

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• University-wide Membership in NCFDD
• Just created an Office of Faculty Development

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Develop a formal program with resources for mentors
• Set an expectation that everyone does it

Stephanie G. Adams

Dean, College of Engineering and Technology

sgadams@odu.edu

Dorthe Wildenschild, Associate Dean & Professor

College of Engineering, Oregon State University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Collaborate with graduate program directors on guidance for faculty regarding

graduate student advising and mentoring

• Work with other Associate Deans in College of Engineering on developing

faculty mentoring programs

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Emphasizes the importance of mentorship in onboarding of new faculty
• Suggests mentorship relationships to junior and senior faculty as an element of
• ur strategic goal to create a collaborative and inclusive community.
• Gathers information about mentoring practices in different units in COE
• Incorporates mentoring messages in faculty advancement activities annually

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Learn from other institutions about best practices in faculty mentoring and

formalize/structure programs throughout COE

dorthe@engr.orst.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Conduct research on faculty careers.

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• ADVANCE workshops.
• Support participation in NCFDD (Faculty Success Program).
• Assign a promotion and tenure mentor to junior faculty. Up

to three additional mentors selected by junior faculty. What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Recognize and reward faculty mentorship.

Joyce Main, Assistant Professor

School of Engineering Education, Purdue University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Oversee mentoring for the entire college
• Work with the director of our mentoring program on content and form

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Assigns a mentor in the offer letter
• For new hires, creates a mentoring committee
• Runs workshops to acclimate faculty
• Long-term programs focused on women, underrepresented

minorities

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Broaden the number who engage in formal mentoring

Rachel Kleit, Associate Dean & Professor (of CRP)

College of Engineering, The Ohio State University

kleit.1@osu.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Affirmative Action Officer for faculty hiring processes (SoE)
• Review of tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty in CEE

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Assign mentors, and encourage natural development of mentors, for

junior faculty

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Support individual faculty in their endeavors to achieve their greatest

success and balance in teaching, scholarship, and service

Chris Swan, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

(CEE), Dean of Undergraduate Education, School of Engineering (SoE) Tufts University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Oversee mentoring and faculty development within the School, in

coordination with department chairs, program directors, and leaders

• Partner with Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Promote a culture of mentoring that facilitates growth, advancement,

recognition What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Leave no one behind and have everyone to be engaged (be fully inclusive)
• Be effective in mentoring outcomes, enabling all participants to be successful

Timothy M. Pinkston, Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

University of Southern California

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Peer mentor to new and new(er) faculty in our Department
• Mentor engineering teaching faculty in engineering education research

(within and outside my University)

• Mentor colleagues specifically in teaching metacognition
• Mentor graduate students (future faculty!) on faculty careers

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• ·Women in Leadership and Mentoring Program

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Value mentoring as part of the P and T process
• Expect good mentorship from everyone

Holly M. Matusovich, Associate Professor and Assistant

Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Engineering Education, Virginia Tech

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Support faculty advancement through investments in people and things
• Work with the Provost’s office to align university and school expectations
• Work with school leadership on faculty development and mentorship

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Open channels of communication across all levels - from faculty to the

President

• Alignment in aspirations and consistency in expectations

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Create environments that consistently and clearly rewards faculty scholarship,

advances faculty success and contributes to personal development/fulfillment

• Continuously adapt to the good ideas, be responsive to new opportunities and

nimble in addressing faculty needs

Kyle Squires, Professor and Dean

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

squires@asu.edu @KyleSquires

What do I do related to faculty mentorship?

• As part of my job, I encourage entrepreneurial mindset among faculty,

including lecturers and professors of practice.

• I am learning the issues that face new faculty and working to recognize

the many forms mentorship takes.

• I am studying ways to a) diagnose new faculty needs and b) assess the

value-added of mentoring and other forms of faculty development What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• I’m new and still learning.

Gary Lichtenstein, Director of EM@FSE Program Effectiveness,

Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• I would like my institution (and others) to be able to be more strategic about identifying

challenges and supporting needs of new faculty, especially as they are affected by ethnicity and gender.

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• I am a research assistant supporting the development of EFIC and

related research studies (e.g. customer discovery with deans to understand their perspective on faculty development)

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Offering a professional series of workshops on teaching called JTFD

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Provide additional resources that can support effective mentoring and

maybe even creating a program that provides an “onboarding” mentor to assist new faculty in making the transition

Mark Huerta, PhD Candidate, Engineering Education Systems &

Design Arizona State University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Part of the ASU team developing EFIC
• My experiences as a young faculty inform EFIC development.
• I am trying to positively influence the onboarding process through the

New Faculty Advisory Council at ASU

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Provide broad training sessions at the Engineering level on topics

suited for all new faculty.

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Understand the unique stresses that young faculty are experiencing.
• Respond better and faster to address the “pinch points”.

Dan Aukes, Assistant Professor

Arizona State University

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Chair of the New Faculty Advisory Committee at ASU

○ Help foster a community and peer mentoring among new faculty ○ Assess new faculty needs and facilitate new initiatives to address these needs

• Develop programming for young scientists at national conferences, including

programming related to diversity and inclusion

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Provide annual feedback to faculty
• Has a broad range of resources and workshops for new faculty from teaching

to research to applying for tenure and promotion

What I (personally or as part of your institution) Want my Institution to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Provide a supportive environment with the necessary resources for faculty to

grow and be successful

Julianne Holloway, Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

julianne.holloway@asu.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Participate as a rep of The Poly School in the master mentor program
• Work with other graduate program chairs to offer community-building

and professional development workshops for faculty within The Poly School

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Offer workshop-driven support to help onboard brand new faculty
• Provide a collegial environment within which faculty feel free to seek

counsel from one another What I Want to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Improve how institutions/academic are able to facilitate one-on-one

mentor-mentee “matches” that are effective/supportive to mentees

• Understand what attributes of mentor-mentee relationships are

perceived to be most supportive / helpful to faculty from underrepresented groups

Jennifer Bekki, Associate Professor

The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

jennifer.bekki@asu.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Part of the ASU team developing EFIC
• Co-ran ASEE ERM Apprentice Faculty Grant program for graduate

students, postdocs, and new faculty for last two years

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Formal and informal mentorship of new and tenure-track faculty

What I Want to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Identify promising practices for effective mentorship across faculty ranks

and career stages

• Understand what impact effective faculty mentorship might have on other

stakeholders in the higher ed enterprise (e.g., PhD students, postdocs)

• Explore what a holistic faculty mentoring plan could look like

Sam Brunhaver, Assistant Professor

The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

samantha.brunhaver@asu.edu

What I Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Part of the ASU EFIC team
• Study how mentorship impacts the mentor
• Involved in the preparation of ERC grad students mentors

What My Institution Does Really Well Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Open to the idea of supporting faculty mentorship
• Allows mentors to be organically identified

What I Want to Be Able to Do Related to Faculty Mentorship:

• Study the impact of facutly mentorship on the mentor
• Understand what it means to be a mentor as opposed to an

advisor, advocate, or champion

• Provide better mentorship to those seeking mentorship from me

Adam Carberry, Associate Professor

The Polytechnic School, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

adam.carberry@asu.edu