Discussion Three

Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS) Faculty Mentoring Agreement

Mentoring Program Coordinator: Dani Burkhart [email protected] (919) 966-9040

Introduction: The Department of Allied Health Sciences supports mentoring at all levels of faculty development and ranks. We wish to facilitate professional growth, aid in faculty retention and use the talents of more experienced faculty members in faculty development. Mentoring plans (see mentoring plan form) are developed for all assistant professors on either fixed term or tenure track, or any associate professor who wishes to participate in the program. The mentoring plan should involve 2-5 mentors as appropriate to the faculty member’s goals. This committee is encouraged to include faculty members from outside DAHS and UNC-Chapel Hill. This mentoring team will assist the faculty member’s development and achievement of scholarly excellence, and is not a performance evaluation. The faculty member and the mentors should be proactive in both defining expectations for one another and setting a regular meeting schedule; although, frequency will vary according to the needs of the faculty member. Expectations: The mentoring team will help guide the faculty member in developing a program consistent with the expectations of their division for scholarly, teaching, and service activities; and assist the faculty member in meeting these career development goals in a timely fashion. The mentoring team, along with the faculty member’s division director, will guide the faculty member toward building an academic identity and body of scholarship, learning the institutional culture and developing a network of experts locally and nationally. The mentors, together with the faculty member, will develop a specific mentoring plan and help the faculty member in achieving their goals. Mentoring types can include research, teaching, academic career guidance, skill development, personal development and professional development. The mentoring plan can include objectives such as submission of publications of dissertation or postdoctoral research, preparation of manuscripts on new research, drafting and submission of research proposals for extramural support, identification of potential research collaborators and development of coursework materials for teaching responsibilities. The mentoring team will assist the mentee’s development in developing research proposals and will provide peer reviews of proposals and scholarly works and help the mentee obtain appropriate supports and interdisciplinary consultations. The mentoring committee and faculty member will meet as a full team at least twice a year, but are encouraged to meet more often or provide individual mentoring opportunities on a specified schedule (see mentoring plan) as best meets the needs of the mentee. A log of the meetings, including progress toward the specified objectives, should be maintained by the faculty member. The mentoring team will provide the Division Director and Department Chair with a brief report each year documenting the faculty member’s development and his/her success in meeting developmental timelines and milestones. This agreement will last for the approximate time period until promotion, and then informally thereafter. Everything discussed in the agreement will be confidential unless otherwise specified at the time of the discussion. This mentoring agreement sets forth the objectives that the mentors and faculty member commit to working on together. All agree to follow the guidelines of this agreement for the period specified and to make a good faith effort to resolve any issues that may arise between them. This mentoring relationship may be dissolved (in writing) by any party. In that case, discussion should involve the division director so alternate mentoring plans can be devised.

We agree to enter into a team mentoring relationship:

________________________________ (Faculty Member) date ____/____/____

________________________________ (Primary Mentor) date ____/____/____ ________________________________ (Mentor) date ____/____/____ ________________________________ (Mentor) date ____/____/____

________________________________ (Division Director) date ____/____/____

Faculty Member: