UO Mentorship Reimagined
UO Mentorship Reimagined aims to ensure every person – undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, librarian, administrators, staff, and alumni – has access to information about network-based mentorship, training around the characteristics of high-quality mentorship, has the opportunity to develop their own active mentorship network, and has the tools necessary to provide a form of mentorship for others.
UO Mentorship Reimagined Goals
This year-long series will include guest speakers, panel discussions, workshops, resources, and communications that help UO to build our culture of mentorship for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, faculty, librarians, administrators, staff, and alumni.
This collaborative effort will align programming and ensure there is consistency in the network-based model, definitions, characteristics of mentorship relationships, and messaging across stakeholder groups.
- Build the culture of mentorship at UO so that every member of the campus community has the opportunity to be a part of a mentorship network and has access to information, training, and tools to intentionally design their own mentorship network.
- Create awareness, understanding and buy-in regarding the definition of a network-based mentorship model, and the UO’s commitment to the characteristics of high-quality and healthy mentorship relationships, which are responsive, adaptive, and reciprocal.
- Increase the number of structured network-based mentorship programs across campus that meet the needs of various stakeholder groups (for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, faculty, librarians, administrators, staff, and alumni).
- Inventory current mentorship programs across campus and increase engagement in all available structured network-based mentorship programs.
- Create, gather, use, and disseminate common and useful tools and resources (with attention to inclusion, accessibility and usability).
Meet the Collaborators
This initiative is a cross-campus collaboration. Each collaborator will bring in key teammates for input, meeting participation, training, and program development as appropriate.
- UESS: Amy Hughes Giard
- Student Life: Marcus Langford
- DEI: Charlotte Moats-Gallagher and Mike Murashige
- Alumni Association: James Chang
- Division of Graduate Studies: Krista Chronister, tia north, Paolo Daniele
- HR: Tiffany Lundy, Chloe Barnett
- UO Libraries: Brian Lym
- OA Council: Spencer Smith
- UO Postdoc Association: Rolf Sykberg, Laura Desban
- Knight Campus: Nathan Jacobs, Stacey York
- Communications: Mel Chambon
- Office of the Provost: Sierra Dawson, Kaori Idemaru (2023-24 Provost’s Mentorship Fellow)
- Academic Impressions: Yianna Kappas
Get Involved
Following the Mentorship Reimagined Kickoff in October 2023, with network-based mentorship expert Dr. Dawn Chanland, additional opportunities to hone your skills as a mentor or mentee will continue to be offered throughout the academic year.
Register for Workshops & Events
UO Staff Workshops
May 9, 1 to 2 p.m., via Zoom
May 14, 9:30 to 11 a.m., in person
During this participatory session attendees engage in guided personal reflection and small group discussions exploring network-based mentorship. This session helps participants evaluate their current support structures and mentorship roles; consider what responsive, reciprocal, and adaptive mentorship looks like and interact with a mentorship network map.
Workshop for Mentors: How to be a responsive, reciprocal & adaptive mentor
*Date change! April 29, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., via Zoom
During this 1-hour interactive zoom workshop, mentors will learn how to help their mentees develop their mentorship network, as well as how to enact the relational characteristics that lead to high quality mentorship.
Workshop for Mentees: How to build your mentorship network
April 25, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., via Zoom
During this 1-hour interactive zoom workshop, mentees will learn how to use their agency to develop a robust mentorship network that includes peers, role models, coaches, sponsors, supervisor, advisors, etc.
Join UO Communities of Practice
The communities of practice listed below have been created for organizers of mentorship programs, providing a place to share our successes, challenges, resources, or to ask questions, which we believe will lead to more effective mentorship programs, and a decrease in the burden on each individual organizer.
Staff Mentorship – Community of Practice
To join contact Tiffany Lundy, Associate Director Learning & Development, Human Resources
Faculty Mentorship – Community of Practice
To join contact Sierra Dawson, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty & Leadership Development, Office of the Provost
Undergraduate Student Mentorship – Community of Practice
To join contact Amy Hughes-Giard, Assistant Vice Provost for First-Year and Transition Student Experience Programs, Undergraduate Education and Student Success or Jimmy Howard, Associate Dean of Students
Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Fellow Mentorship – Community of Practice
To join contact Nathan Jacob, Director, Research Training and Career Acceleration, Knight Campus
See Previous Events & Workshops
Responsive Mentorship at UO - Workshops
Jan. 29, four unique sessions were held from 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in the Redwood Auditorium, EMU
Learn how to tailor your approach to serving as both a mentor and a mentee through cultivating adaptability and developing open, equitable communication over the course of four 90-minute workshop sessions at the end of January. These sessions can be attended individually or all together as a cohesive course.
- 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. Journeys in Mentorship - Stories from Students and Faculty
- 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Mentoring and You - Responsive Mentorship Story Circles
- 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. Evidence-Based Mentoring - Exploring the Literature on Responsive Mentorship
- 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Practicing Mentorship - Practical Skill Development for Mentors and Mentees
Graduate Writing Mentorship Program (for Faculty)
Sessions are noon to 3:00 p.m. week 2, 5, 8 of winter and spring terms.
This six-session faculty development curriculum addresses the student-mentor relationship, time-efficient instruction, and practicalities of drafting, revision, and publication. This initiative also runs parallel to a "mirror" Graduate Writing Program for graduate students, encouraging joint particiapntion to foster a shared language and tools for writing. For more information email Mike Murashige at mmurashi@uoregon.edu.
UO Staff Workshops
March 21, 1 to 2:30 p.m. (in person)
March 4, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. (virtual)
Feb. 20, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (in person)
Dec. 18, 2023 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Dec. 7, 2023 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
During this in person, participatory session attendees engage in guided personal reflection and small group discussions exploring network-based mentorship. This session helps participants evaluate their current support structures and mentorship roles; consider what responsive, reciprocal, and adaptive mentorship looks like and interact with a mentorship network map.
UO Mentorship Reimagined - Keynote, Workshops, and Kickoff
October 2, 2023
- 9:30-11:00 a.m.: Coaching Workshop
- Participants learn from Dr. Dawn Chanland what coaching conversations look, sound, and feel like thorugh interactive scenarios and skills practice. Great for supervisors, faculty advisers, peer leadership coaches, folks interested in coaching, and more.
- 12:00-1:30 p.m.: Kickoff & Keynote
- Keynote speaker Dr. Dawn Chanland shares her expertise on network-based mentorship. Hear about how mentorship can take many shapes (from formal to informal), lengths (from episodes to long-term relationships), and with many types of developers in our network (peers, role models, coaches, supervisors, advisers, friends, etc.). Each participant assesses their network, maps out their mentorship needs and wants, and makes an action plan.
- 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Mentorship Program Development
- This session provides a space for participants to share about the programs they have built, are in the midst of building, or want to build here at UO. Dr. Dawn Chanland helps guide participants towards potential models, best practices, and things to avoid when designing mentorhsip programs.