Mentoring

Invitation to Participate

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to welcome you to UNC Charlotte! I am the Coordinator of the new University Mentoring Program. I would like to invite you to participate in this college-wide mentoring program for junior faculty members. In this program, junior faculty members are matched with senior colleagues who are outside the junior faculty member’s home unit. This program is supplemental to, and not a replacement for disciplinary or program mentoring. Matches will be made and faculty members will be informed of their assigned mentor/mentee as soon as possible. I will be working with a small group of chairs and senior faculty members in making these matches. Attached to this email is the form you can fill out and send back to me at mentoring@uncc.edu. The initiating step for this program and its only required element is a mentoring workshop for both mentors and mentees. This workshop will be repeated several times in August and early September so that all participating faculty members will have an opportunity to attend (matched mentors and mentees should attend the same workshop if possible). At this workshop, mentors and mentees will be made aware of their joint responsibilities. They will sign an agreement, indicating the areas for which the mentee would like support. The agreement also includes a no-fault termination at the end of the semester.

We will kick off the mentor/mentee program with a get together at the UNC Charlotte Greenhouse early in September. I will let you know details as soon as possible.

I realize that some of you may have some questions regarding this new program. Please feel free to contact me.

I look forward to meeting you and working with you in the future.

Yvette