Faculty Peer Communities

Faculty Development Communities for Promotion Mentoring Program

Faculty Affairs offers the Faculty Development Communities for Promotion (FDCP) Mentoring Program. The objective of this program is to prioritize guiding values of excellence, honesty, trustworthiness, and compassion to help communities discuss and navigate their professional development while on the pathway to promotion/tenure.

The goal of this program is to create small faculty groups and link them with one faculty mentor who has been successful in the promotion process. These communities help early career faculty explore their individual objectives, hopes, and aspirations as well as to reflect on their common challenges, concerns and solutions about promotion and tenure. Topics covered over the span of the academic year include strategic planning for promotion, work/life balance, designing effective courses, institutional service for promotion, and how to present your research in your dossier.

This program is available for full-time faculty of all tracks at the University of Arizona.  

Program structure:

  • Communities are created by the MENTOR Institute.
  • Communities organize and facilitate their own schedules but are encouraged to meet on a bi-weekly basis to discuss a strategic plan for the year and to support and help each other.
  • Communities are encouraged to meet with their mentor on a monthly basis.
  • Community members are encouraged to develop individual plans to achieve their professional objectives as University of Arizona faculty.
  • Faculty Affairs offers holistic support to communities by offering mentoring resources throughout the program. 

Registration for the 2025-2026 academic year will open in May, 2025. 

We ask that all FDCP participants take the MENTOR Institute Online Training before the kickoff event to learn best practices for this peer mentoring experience.  

If you have questions on the application procedures, please email Tara Chandler at chandlet@arizona.edu

 

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 inclusive 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 4-5pm 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.