Faculty Mentoring Program
Designed to provide supportive relationships and experienced guidance for faculty around all aspects of academic life and help acclimate faculty as they adjust to a new environment or role. Our well-respected, experienced mentors provide important advice and support on issues that are central to your success, including teaching, networking, time management, research, grant writing, publishing, work/life balance, and navigating departmental cultures. This program is open to all faculty, including both non-tenure-track and tenure-track faculty, full-time and part-time.
Faculty are welcome to apply to be a mentee or mentor. Please see below for details.
At present, membership in the Faculty Mentoring Program is limited to faculty on the Denver Campus. Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) faculty are encouraged to seek mentoring within their home academic departments. AMC faculty are welcome to reach out to the CFDA for assistance in connecting with their departmental mentoring program.
Get a Mentor today
Want a faculty mentor to mentor you? Want to get knowledge and experiences passed on from other faculty members? Form lasting relationships that help. Benefits for the Mentee: Having a guide/coach can make the journey easier and more enjoyable. Benefits for new faculty members include: Enhanced teaching and research skills; Receive constructive and critical feedback; Insights on navigating the institutional terrain; Networking with key senior faculty; Advice on balancing the demands of teaching, research, service. Sign up to be a mentor or mentee today and participate in our supportive programming throughout the year.
Be a Faculty Mentor
Want to be a mentor? Want to pass on your experiences and knowledge to other faculty members? Form lasting relationships that matter. Benefits for the Mentor: Mentoring relationships have many advantages, not the least of which is a rejuvenated sense of professional purpose. Mentor benefits include: A genuine sense of "giving back" by contributing to the development of a colleague; A deepened sense of adding to the overall climate of change at the university; Developing a network of colleagues; A reinvigorated and renewed perspective on your own teaching and scholarship.
Upcoming Faculty Mentoring Programs
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Ready, Set, Go: A Mentoring Plan for a New Semester
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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Deepening and Redefining Your Mentoring Relationships
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Help You We Will
| 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
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Celebrating and Continuing Forward
| 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Previous Sessions
Faculty Mentoring Program: Balancing Meaningful Faculty Service Commitments
Service commitments are a meaningful part of life as a faculty member, yet they can easily become overwhelming. Join Peter Anthamatten and a panel of colleagues for a discussion on making your service work meaningful and manageable. Questions the panel will discuss: -How should I choose meaningful service positions as I’m starting my academic career? -What kinds of balance should I seek between departmental, university, professional, and community service? Does this balance change over time? -How should my choices of service commitments change across the course of my career? -How can I negotiate with my department chair when we have different preferences in terms of the service I perform? -How do faculty members get positions on major university-level committees? We will have time for Q&A after the discussion.
Facilitated by Peter Anthamattenv with panelist: Vivian Shyu, Sebawit Bishu, and Sasha Breger-Bush on September 21st, 2020. Click here to watch the video!