Faculty Mentorship: Incorporating Inclusive Practices to Foster Faculty Success

Faculty mentorship has proven to be a key factor in faculty success, as it increases research productivity, improves career satisfaction, and plays a crucial role in retaining faculty. Mentorship is especially important for historically underrepresented faculty, who face more barriers to career advancement in the academy than their white male cisgender peers. But knowing how to establish high-quality mentorship programs and how to effectively mentor across differences can be difficult. How can you set up meaningful mentor relationships that acknowledge and center issues of power and privilege across race, gender, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, and generational differences?

This conference is designed to help both current faculty mentors and those who oversee faculty mentoring programs to develop better and more inclusive mentoring practices. Inclusive mentorship creates a dynamic where mentor and mentee can dialogue across differences and connect in a mutually beneficial relationship. In this workshop, you will gain practical strategies to help you:

• Learn and apply evidence-based strategies for effective mentoring.
• Understand how your own social identities and privileges influence your relationships with mentees.
• Reflect on your current mentoring style and incorporate strategies to be more inclusive.
• Better understand and consider the elements of a formal mentoring program.
• Analyze and discuss complex case studies to inform and improve your mentoring style.