Mentoring Opportunities

Mentoring relationships support all employees' professional growth, including faculty. Across their various responsibilities, faculty take on roles of mentoring others and of being mentored. Networks of mentors offer various types of support, informal and formal, across faculty research, teaching and service responsibilities.

Departmental mentors are one part of faculty mentoring networks. Departmental mentors help new faculty learn about and access departmental, college and university resources, understand and prepare for the annual evaluation process, promotion and, where relevant, tenure process. Departmental mentors and the faculty member they are mentoring establish expectations and goals to guide their relationship.

Please contact rgordon@niu.edu if you would like to share mentoring needs, opportunities or experiences.