Network-based mentorship includes some structured, intentional, and sustained relationships that guide and support an individual’s professional growth. The science of mentorship demonstrates the transformative nature of mentoring networks and relationships, leading to better academic performance, productivity, and professional reputation. High-quality mentoring is an especially powerful mechanism to retain folks from historically marginalized communities by validating the experience of the mentee and affirming their developing professional competencies. Mentoring contributes to the success of individuals throughout their careers but is especially important at moments of transition.
The Office of the Provost offers programs to support faculty at transitional moments in their career. These programs provided tangible knowledge and support, and assist faculty in developing the needed mentorship networks. These programs are designed to complement local programs in the department, division, school or college.
Associate Professors Peer Mentorship Program
Being an associate professor is an important and unique moment in your career. Questions arise during this mid-career moment. Should I begin a new line of scholarship? How should I prioritize and manage the increase in service and leadership requests? What new teaching methods might I explore? What is required to successfully be promoted to full professor? Our peer mentorship program has been designed to support faculty at this important moment in your career.
We will meet once per month, and each 1.5-hour meeting will begin with tangible information on a topic that the group has identified as helpful and important. The remainder of the 1.5-hour meeting will include semi-structured conversations with your peers to integrate the topic more personally.
Participants will leave the year with a community of faculty colleagues, a mentoring network map, a individualized development plan, and increased knowledge of the topics the group chooses to focus on.
Although applications are now closed, if you are interested in being added to the program, please email OtP@uoregon.edu.
Fall 2024 we will meet Mondays from 1:00-2:30pm on Oct. 14, Nov. 25 and Dec. 16.
The tentative 2025 Winter and Spring dates include Jan. 27, Feb. 17, March 17, April 14 and May 5.
As a participant, you will:
- Develop a community of peers from units across campus.
- Experience the professional fulfillment and personal satisfaction that comes with helping a peer.
- Collaborate on group and individual goals and expectations.
- Gain transferable skills within a leadership competency.
- Experience responsive and reciprocal mentorship.
- Engage in open dialogue about key issues and experiences in the academy.
- Connect with resources to support your ability to thrive mid-career.
- Engage different approaches and tools for leading and mentoring others.
- Experience a mentoring network that augments what may, or may not, be available in your local unit.
- Build out a mentoring network map to support your current goals.
- Identify strengths and work on areas for development including goal setting and an individual development plan (year-long and multi-year plans).
- Learn to work through existing obstacles and overcome challenges/barriers.
- Gain new perspectives and ways of thinking through a coaching mindset.
- Enhance active listening and communicating skills, and avoid the “advice trap”.
Career Faculty Peer Mentorship Program
Our Career Faculty peer mentorship program has been designed to build support and community across campus for career faculty and to provide a forum to discuss leadership interest and potential. The intended audience includes senior instructors, senior lecturers, associate clinical professors, associate research professors, associate librarians and professors of practice - in other words, mid-career non-tenure related faculty who have advanced at least one promotional step and who are looking for peer mentorship and community.
We will meet in person once a month, and each 1.5-hour meeting will begin with tangible information on a topic that the group has identified as helpful and important. The remainder of the 1.5-hour meeting will include semi-structured conversations with your peers to integrate the topic more personally.
Participants will leave the year with a community of faculty colleagues, a mentoring network map, an individualized development plan, and increased knowledge of the topics the group chooses to focus on.
Although applications are now closed, if you are interested in being added to the program, please email OtP@uoregon.edu.
Fall 2024 we will meet Tuesdays from 1:00-2:30pm on Oct. 22, Nov. 12, Dec. 3.
The tentative 2025 Winter and Spring dates include Jan. 21, Feb. 18, Mar. 18, Apr. 15, May 6.
As a participant, you will:
- Develop a community of peers from units across campus.
- Experience the professional fulfillment and personal satisfaction that comes with helping a peer.
- Gain new perspectives and ways of thinking through a coaching mindset.
- Enhance active listening and communicating skills whilst avoiding the “advice trap”.
- Experience responsive and reciprocal mentorship.
- Learn to work through existing obstacles and overcome challenges/barriers.
- Identify strengths and work on areas for development including goal setting and an individual development plan (year-long and multi-year plans).
- Engage different approaches and tools for leading and mentoring others.
- Experience a mentoring network that augments what may, or may not, be available in your local unit.
- Build out a mentoring network map to support your current goals.
- Connect with resources to support your ability to thrive as you transition to a new stage in your academic career where you are poised to take on local leadership roles.
- Collaborate on group and individual goals and expectations.
- Gain transferable skills within a leadership competency.
- Engage in open dialogue about key issues and experiences in the academy.
Peer Leadership Coaching Program
This program leverages the talents of the UO Leadership Academy graduates as peer coaches, and pairs them with faculty and staff in various leadership positions. Coaching pairs will be encouraged to meet every 2-4 weeks, and coaches will be supported across the year.
Peer coaches will leave the year with further development of non-directive leadership and listening skills – important competencies for leading from where you are. New leaders will experience the gift of time that is completely dedicated to yourself and your needs through non-judgmental deep listening.
Applications are now open for both volunteer Peer Coaches (graduates of the leadership academy), and Coachees (local leaders at any level).
The two part Kickoff session is Monday Dec. 9, 2024. Please RSVP via the MyTrack links below for one or both, as your schedule allows.
- Dec. 9 from 9:00-10:30am Ford Alumni Center Ballroom - Foundational understanding of the peer coach's role and the expectations (open to all)
- Dec, 9 from 11:00-12:30 Knight Library Browsing Room - A deeper dive and practice with peer coaching skills (open to participants of the Peer Leadership Coaching Program)
Coaching pairs will meet winter and spring 2025.
As a participant, you will:
- Develop a community of leaders from units across campus.
- Enhance your professional fulfillment and personal thriving.
- Gain new perspectives and ways of thinking through a coaching mindset.
- Enhance active listening and communicating skills, and avoid the “advice trap”.
- Define and experience culturally responsive mentorship and coaching.
As a coachee, you will:
- Develop a community of peers in leadership roles from units across the university.
- Experience a trusting peer leadership coaching partnership with a graduate of the UO Leadership Academy.
- Connect with resources to support your ability to thrive in your leadership role.
- Learn to work through existing obstacles and overcome challenges/barriers.
- Experience the gift of being deeply heard, understood and supported by a peer.
As a coachee, you will:
- Receive personal satisfaction that comes with helping someone else advance their career.
- Practice and build on the skills developed in the UO Leadership Academy.
- Engage in open dialogue about key issues and experiences in the academy.
- Develop your deep listening skills and engage new approaches for leading and mentoring others.