Peer Mentoring
CTLE emphasizes the importance of faculty developing a wide network of mentors to meet various needs related to progress and success. We offer workshops and consultation to help faculty members identify coaches, senior mentors, peer mentors, and sponsors across a variety of settings (e.g., departmental, outside one's home college, conference colleagues).
This helpful mentor map from NCFDD provides an exercise to identify your current mentors and gaps that may need attention. You may also view this previous CTLE workshop: The Mentor Map: Identifying Your Network
The Office of the Provost hosts the Faculty Peer Mentoring Program which is a cross-disciplinary, one-to-one faculty mentoring program. In the program, early career tenure-track faculty are matched with tenured faculty from outside their own department. Term faculty are matched with a more advanced term faculty member. We view this mentor and mentee connection as mutually beneficial. The main goals of the peer mentoring program are to help faculty make connections across VCU, gain new perspectives from someone who went through the promotion and tenure process, and successfully launching their VCU career!