Junior faculty benefit from the advice their mentors offer, and senior faculty find it rewarding and valuable to engage with junior colleagues.
Once tenured, faculty members face a different set of challenges than their pre-tenure colleagues. UBC Faculty of Education supports pre-tenure mentoring and encourages the development of post-tenure mentoring strategies in the departments. This page provides guidelines for developing departmental policies on faculty mentoring, recommendations for establishing and maintaining a successful mentor-mentee relationship, and pointers to further internal and external resources on mentoring and related topics.
Mentoring
UBC Faculty of Education promotes the mentoring of pre- and post-tenure faculty. The goals of mentoring are to help prepare junior faculty for promotion and tenure and, more generally, to ensure our faculty’s success.
- What is Mentoring?
- Faculty Mentoring Programs
- Teaching Learning
- Teaching Support
- Educational Leadership
- Information for Graduate Supervisors
Mentoring Process
Mentor’s and mentee’s roles, suggestions on meeting schedules and ways to communicate successfully.
Mentoring Topics
Suggested areas for discussion between mentor and mentee (instructors, assistant and associate professors), concrete questions per area.
UBC Resources for Incoming and Current Faculty Members
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- Things to know before you arrive and start in your new position (UBC FR)
- Orientations for new faculty members (UBC FR)
- Teaching resources for new UBC faculty members (UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology)
- Promotion, tenure and reappointment procedures (UBC HR)
- Childcare resources (UBC and beyond)
- Working at UBC – Faculty and Staff Resources and Contacts (UBC)
- Office of Research Service
- NCFDD’s Programs and Resources
- UBC’s HR Career Development Planning Information
- UBC Faculty Association
