{"id":385,"date":"2013-09-17T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=385"},"modified":"2013-09-17T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:35:32","slug":"junior-faculty-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/09\/17\/junior-faculty-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Faculty Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a department chair is mentoring junior faculty members. At the U of Minnesota I set up regular meetings with a group of tenure-track faculty and one contract assistant professor. The structure of each meeting: a check in about research projects in progress, discussion of a topic I thought may be of interest, open discussion, and then a check out about action items. My new college is small enough for me to be able do the same here at UW-Parkside, and yesterday was the inaugural meeting for three new tenure-track assistant professors and one lecturer in his first post-graduate school academic appointment. The associate dean also attended and shared great advice. For some of the future meetings we&#8217;ll invite the other junior faculty members in the college.\u00a0My topic of discussion was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2013\/08\/28\/essay-advice-those-starting-careers-assistant-professors\" target=\"_blank\">advice for new assistant professors<\/a> article from InsideHigherEd.com. Please let me know if you come across additional articles that I can share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most enjoyable aspects of being a department chair is mentoring junior faculty members. At the U of Minnesota I set up regular meetings with a group of tenure-track faculty and one contract assistant professor. The structure of each meeting: a check in about research projects in progress, discussion of a topic I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22228],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-mentorship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}