Mentoring + Mentor Fellows Program

Mentoring

Mentors are senior faculty who work with junior faculty to facilitate professional and personal growth by sharing information and insights, providing encouragement, and opening doors.

Below are some resources available for download.

• Best Practices in Faculty Mentoring 
  Explore the practical details of developing and benefiting from a mentor-mentee relationship.
• Mentoring New Faculty School of Medicine
  Mentors meet with the new faculty individually, several times a year, and serve as advisors for how/when to identify grant opportunities, provide feedback on research plans, read drafts of papers or grants, and more.
• Faculty Mentoring Protocol School of Dental Medicine
  Mentors provide guidance in research and scholarship development, but mentees are ultimately responsible for their performance.

Graduate Student Mentoring

CWRU promotes and recognizes good mentoring practices. CWRU's Graduate Student Council (GSC) offers a resource page about mentoring relationships. They have also created a Guidebook for Mentors and Mentees.

There is also a checklist for self-evaluation of the kinds of skills that mentors need to have.

Building a network of mentoring relationships is beneficial for faculty and graduate students alike, and this workbook describes how to create those relationships.

More information on Graduate Student Mentoring

Mentor Fellows

The Office of Faculty Development is excited to announce the sixteenth annual Mentor Fellows program will run in Fall 2024. To participate in the Mentor Fellows program in Fall 2024, submit an application by May 31, 2024. Application review begins on June 10, 2024. Immediate questions may be directed to facdev@case.edu.

Faculty mentoring relationships are meant to foster the creation of new knowledge at a research university. To advance the goal of promoting and recognizing good mentoring practices, non-tenure track and tenure-track faculty are invited to apply to participate in the program.This series of seminars is designed to engage faculty to reflect and improve on their own practices both as mentor and mentee while participating in thoughtful dialogue with other faculty from across the university on how to improve the quality of mentoring. Historically, this program has had more than 100 faculty participants. 

Mentor Fellows participants attend a 12-week, seminar-type course in which faculty read and discuss the research literature on mentoring and learn how to apply those lessons in their own mentoring relationships. Readings and assignments take about 2 hours per week. Enrollment in the program implies a commitment by the faculty member to attend and participate in all 10 weekly sessions, submit weekly journals, participate in program evaluations, and complete other assignments as may be required. Those who complete the program receive a $2,000 grant for academic purposes to be used during the next calendar year.

Application Procedure

To submit your application for consideration, please complete an online contact and summary form (available May 10 through May 31, 2024) through the Mentor Fellows Applicant Form which will request:

• Contact information
• One-page letter letter of interest to briefly explain why you are applying to participate in Mentor Fellows.
• One-page biographical sketch that includes your educational background and employment history. You may think of this sketch as a concise version of your full curriculum vitae.

Mentor Fellows Alum

Other Resources

CWRU School of Medicine Faculty Development & Diversity

• FAQs of Mentoring

Academic Impressions

• Best Practices in Designing Mentoring Programs for Early Career Faculty - Recording
• Best Practices for Supporting First Year Faculty - Lessons Learned During COVID-19 - Recording
• Improving Faculty Mentorship - Recording

Journal of the American Medical Association on Mentoring

• Academic Mentoring—How to Give It and How to Get It