External Mentor Program: This program supports the research, creative activity, and professional development of UO tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and tenured faculty who seek to establish and/or advance a mentoring relationship with a scholar at a peer institution.
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity: UO faculty and graduate students can activate a free membership to the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity. It offers a rich array of webinars, short online courses, and other resources to support professional development and retention.
Programs by Faculty Type
Assistant Professors
College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professors Mentoring Program: Starting as a pilot in Academic Year 2024-25, this program is designed for new assistant tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. A launch committee—made up of a convener, the department head, and senior faculty both within and outside the department—meets monthly in the first year and quarterly in the next two years to help faculty achieve success with tenure.
Lundquist College of Business Assistant Professors Mentoring Program: Assistant professors in the Lundquist College of Business are invited to this one-on-one mentoring program. Department heads match assistant professors with senior professors, and each pair meets as needed to support research, teaching, service, and wellbeing in addition to group meetings once a term.
Associate Professors
Associate Professors Peer Mentorship Program: Members of this peer mentorship program meet once a month to build community with colleagues and put together a mentoring network map and an individualized development plan. Those interested in the program should email OtP@uoregon.edu for more information.
Career Faculty
Career Faculty Peer Mentorship Program: This program offers career faculty a forum to build community and discuss issues they are interested in. Participants should be mid-career non-tenure-related faculty who have advanced at least one promotional step, including senior instructors, senior lecturers, associate clinical professors, associate research professors, associate librarians, and professors of practice. The group meets in-person once a month.
Composition Faculty
Composition Program New Career Faculty Mentoring Program: New career faculty are paired with experienced career faculty in this mentoring program, which offers group-based events and individual sessions. The goal is to provide professional development to composition faculty.
Graduate Student Mentors
Graduate Writing Mentorship Program: This six-session training program is intended for faculty members who either work with or are intending to work with graduate students. It is offered in partnership between the Division of Graduate Studies, the Teaching Engagement Program, and the Center on Diversity and Community.
New Faculty
UO New Faculty Success Program: This program offers the opportunity to build relationships with others joining the university, learn how to thrive in the academy using the NCFDD core curriculum, and get your questions answered by local panelists.
New Leaders
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 two to four weeks, and coaches will be supported across the year with the Gather & Grow meeting series for UO Leadership Academy graduates.
Tenure-Track Faculty
College of Design Tenure-Track Faculty Mentoring Program: This group mentoring program is available for tenure-track faculty at all levels within the College of Design. Meetings and workshops are held on various themes and by various units on campus, with both virtual and in-person opportunities.
Programs by School/College
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professors Mentoring Program: Starting as a pilot in Academic Year 2024-25, this program is designed for new assistant tenure-track faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. A launch committee—made up of a convener, the department head, and senior faculty both within and outside the department—meets monthly in the first year and quarterly in the next two years to help faculty achieve success with tenure.
College of Design
Tenure-Track Faculty Mentoring Program: This group mentoring program is available for tenure-track faculty at all levels within the College of Design. Meetings and workshops are held on various themes and by various units on campus, with both virtual and in-person opportunities.
Lundquist College of Business
Assistant Professors Mentoring Program: Assistant professors in the Lundquist College of Business are invited to this one-on-one mentoring program. Department heads match assistant professors with senior professors, and each pair meets as needed to support research, teaching, service, and wellbeing in addition to group meetings once a term.
Programs for Women
Women of Color Mentoring Program: This mentoring program for women of color is held in two formats. Prospective mentees can apply for one-on-one mentorship with a focus on promotion or for one-one-one writing support with a professional editor. In the former, the pairing determines the frequency of meetings, and in the latter, support is available once a year.
Women's Innovation Network: The Women's Innovation Network (WIN) helps UO faculty and graduate student entrepreneurs navigate gender-based barriers to bringing their research to market or launching a business. The nine-month program involves networking events, seminars, and mentor connection calls.
Women in Leadership Mentorship Program: The Association of Pacific Rim Universities offers the Asia Pacific Women in Leadership Mentorship Program to provide international and intercultural growth and development opportunities to aspiring women leaders. The program matches mentors and mentees from APRU member universities for one-on-one mentorship. Participants also have access to seminars and hands-on workshops featuring diverse leaders. If you’re interested in being a mentor or mentee, please email Nancy O’Brien with your name, department, rank, and a short paragraph about your interest in the program.
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity: UO faculty and graduate students can activate a free membership to the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity. It offers a rich array of webinars, short online courses, and other resources to support professional development and retention.
Women's Innovation Network: The Women's Innovation Network (WIN) helps UO faculty and graduate student entrepreneurs navigate gender-based barriers to bringing their research to market or launching a business. The nine-month program involves networking events, seminars, and mentor connection calls.
Undergraduate Student Resources
Academic Advising PeerLink: PeerLink Advisors provide UO students with academic advising and mentorship, connecting them with campus resources, helping identify academic or co-curricular opportunities, and serving as a comfortable and continuous point of contact.
Intercultural Mentoring Program Advancing Community Ties: IMPACT is a peer-to-peer mentoring program for students of color and first-generation college students. Student coordinators support first-year and transfer students, offering the opportunity to be part of a community that is comfortable, accepting, and truly yours.
Lundquist College of Business Flight School: This program is designed specifically for first-year and new transfer business students. Flight School helps students launch their academic journeys and get set up for success.
Oregon Pathways to Industry Research Careers mentoring program: This program, which is overseen by the Knight Campus, pairs undergraduate students with a master’s student in the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program. The goal is to help low-income students navigate their academic and career paths.
Peer Advisors for Veterans Education: PAVE is a peer support program connecting incoming student veterans with those already on campus. Mentors can help with navigating college life, identify challenges they are facing, refer them to resources on or off campus, and provide ongoing support to their academic and personal ventures.
Student-Athlete Resources
University of Oregon Athletics Mentoring Program: Current student-athletes are invited to join this mentoring program, which offers one-on-one support with alumni, UO staff, donors, and other professionals depending on the students’ goals and interests. Participants can join group events, which are held every term.
