Mentorship Checklist

Here are steps that the UC Davis committee on campus mentoring recommends:

Compile a list of specialists, including faculty members, administrators, and staff, who can offer detailed information on specific topics to both mentors and those being mentored. Topics to be covered would include the tenure and promotion system, teaching, research, service, grant writing, grant management, and work-life balance issues.
Draft basic mentoring guidelines and distribute them widely.
Create a mentoring Web site containing all information that might be of interest to new faculty members, including the items listed above, as well as the profiles of participating mentors-atlarge. The mentors-at-large would be able to update their profiles periodically, including information about availability. The Web site would allow faculty members to contact potential mentors by e-mail and inform the Office of Academic Personnel upon finding an appropriate match.

Compile a list of frequently asked questions about mentoring, from the perspectives of both mentors and those being advised, and post it on the mentoring Web site.

Send a link to this Web site by e-mail to all faculty members at the beginning of each academic year and encourage all potential mentors and untenured faculty to participate in the program.