Faculty Mentoring at NIU

Faculty mentoring is a significant component in a faculty member’s career development, retention and success. As part of a faculty member’s mentoring network, the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost leads a formal university-wide faculty departmental mentoring program to support new faculty. The office also collaborates on additional mentoring opportunities across the university including those focused on teaching, research, engagement and leadership and those supporting faculty across their careers.

Mentoring Relationships

Our faculty mentoring program seeks to support all faculty. It is rooted in a formalized departmental mentoring relationship that matches new faculty with senior faculty. This relationship provides you as a new faculty with personalized attention and builds your sense of belonging as you adjust to NIU. Mentoring can also occur within non-hierarchical relationships, and all faculty are encouraged to engage in peer mentoring opportunities.

In addition, our faculty teaching mentors team of experienced and knowledgeable faculty are available to provide advice, recommendations and mentoring on teaching.

Strong mentoring relationships, whether formalized or non-formalized, cultural or cross-cultural, within disciplines or cross-disciplines, can improve the teaching, scholarly growth, career advancement and well-being of all faculty.