Campus Leadership Mentoring Program

Campus Leadership Mentoring Program

The Campus Leadership Mentoring Program seeks to provide a peer mentoring community for mid-career faculty and staff who desire to strengthen their leaderships skills. The objective is to cultivate peer communities where emerging leaders can develop problem-solving, communication, and goal-setting skills in an encouraging environment that leads to professional advancement of the participants.  

The Campus Leadership Mentoring Program is an initiative of the MENTOR Institute within Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost. The goal of this program is to create small groups of mid-career faculty and staff who desire to enhance their leadership skills. Each group is facilitated by a faculty or staff member who completed the Academic Leadership Institute (ALI) program.

Program structure: 

  • Upon registration, you will be assigned to a peer community by the MENTOR Institute. 

  • Communities organize and facilitate their own schedule but are encouraged to meet on a regular basis (monthly, bi-weekly) to discuss the application of their leadership skills goals.  

  • Communities are encouraged to meet with their mentor (who is an assigned ALI graduate) monthly.  

  • Community members are encouraged to develop individual leadership goals. 

  • Communities will be supported by the MENTOR Institute with mentoring training, resources, leadership materials and discussion topics. 

Program Requirements:

To be a mentor in this program, you should be an Academic Leadership Institute Alum. 

To be a mentee in this program, you should:

   1. Currently hold a position of a manager/senior manager or higher (staff)

   2. Currently hold a position of associate faculty or above (faculty)

To be a participant as a mentor/mentee, you should: 

  1. Commit to be in the program for one calendar year, January-December. 

  2. Commit to meet as a group at least once a month. 

Participants should make every effort to attend the fall kickoff event in January. This event will take place on Thursday, January 23rd from 2-3pm on the 1st floor (downstairs) of the University of Arizona Campus Store.  

Please note, this program will be capped at 75 mentees and 30 mentors each year, based on eligibility.  Registration closes on December 12, 2024.

Please reach out to Tara Chandler, Assistant Director, MENTOR Institute, with any questions.