Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Are you an early career faculty member? If so, you’re invited to
join one of our small mentoring groups led by experienced UWindsor
faculty. These once-a-month sessions are dedicated to supporting
you in balancing your teaching, research, and service expectations.
Two to three mentors with different experience and background will
meet with their group each month throughout the academic year. The
sessions are informal in structure, offering opportunities for ECF
to meet with colleagues, make professional connections, share
information that can assist with their professional development,
and demystify the RTP process. The mentors working together with
the mentees shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to
thriving at the UWindsor and accommodating their teaching,
research, service, and work-life demands! Our past participants
have found the hour-long sessions a comfortable venue where they
can discuss challenges and concerns and learn how to navigate the
academic/ institutional landscape. We look forward to you joining
our ECF workshop community.
Past offerings
Friday, October 12, 2018
Fostering Graduate Student Mentorship for New Faculty
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, October 12, 2018, 09:00 AM – 04:00 PM
Location:
McPherson Lounge
Instructors:
Tracy C. Davis
This intensive workshop focuses on helping you develop as a mentor of graduate students. By stipulating our expectations as mentors and communicating clearly, we can avoid many problems that impede students' progress. Successful mentoring relationships help both faculty and students optimize use of time and fiscal resources and advance collective goals. Activities and discussions at this workshop will focus on skills that faculty need to help more kinds of students progress through graduate milestones and succeed in research. We will also focus on tools and strategies to help faculty manage the workload of mentoring.
- What you do when you mentor?
- Mentoring in different disciplines: common principles and practices, in and out of the lab
- How to develop and enhance positive mentoring relationships: maintaining good communication with mentees
- Mentoring across difference
- Keeping students on track
- Guiding mentees to be full partners in their development
- What is a mentoring philosophy?: understanding your own style
Monday, December 10, 2018
Feeling stressed at the end of the semester?
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 10, 2018, 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Lambton 2103
Trying to figure out how to stay sane, balanced and get everything done that needs doing at school and home during the break???!! Need a breather??
Drop in and join other early career faculty for egg-nog, convivial chat, and some resources to help you out over the break. Erica Stevens Abbitt will provide a short, educational “end-of-semester relaxation” session with techniques to help you cope with seasonal stress in exams, in the office or grading at home!!!
Monday, January 7, 2019
Surviving and Thriving
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, January 07, 2019, 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University
Instructors:
TBA
This morning meeting is on practical topics and questions identified by you and your colleagues. In preparation, please let us know any areas that you would find it helpful to have a discussion about skills, challenges and resources that would help you in your career right now! Come and join colleagues over breakfast. (Email questions to Erika Kustra, kustraed@uwindsor.ca, Beverley Hamilton, beverley@uwindsor.ca)
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Using Student Evaluation of Teaching and other Feedback!
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, March 21, 2019, 10:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
The Katzman Lounge
Instructors:
TBA
Student evaluation of teaching (SET)scores usually arrive around this time. What do they mean? What are their limits? How can they be most useful to you? ....and what other feedback or evidence might you want to collect?
Monday, October 21, 2019
Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, October 21, 2019, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
and Monday, November 25, 2019, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
and Monday, January 27, 2020, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
and Monday, February 24, 2020, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
and Monday, March 30, 2020, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
and Monday, April 27, 2020, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
(list dates)
Location:
CTL 1232/1233 (700 California)
Instructors:
Erica Stevens Abbitt,
David Andrews
Are you an early career faculty member? You are invited to a new opportunity to join small group mentoring with experienced faculty, dedicated to supporting you in your teaching as you balance research, and service expectations. Two mentors with different experience and background will meet with a group of 4-6 early career faculty, to enable multiple small mentoring groups. The groups will meet for one academic year, and will work together to shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to thriving at the University of Windsor in teaching as you balance research, service, work-life balance, and more!
Friday, October 25, 2019
Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, October 25, 2019, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
and Friday, November 29, 2019, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
and Friday, January 31, 2020, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
and Friday, February 28, 2020, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
and Friday, March 27, 2020, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
and Friday, April 24, 2020, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
(list dates)
Location:
CTL 1232/1233 (700 California)
Instructors:
Erika Kustra,
Veronika Mogyorody
Are you an early career faculty member? You are invited to a new opportunity to join small group mentoring with experienced faculty, dedicated to supporting you in your teaching as you balance research, and service expectations. Two mentors with different experience and background will meet with a group of 4-6 early career faculty, to enable multiple small mentoring groups. The groups will meet for one academic year, and will work together to shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to thriving at the University of Windsor in teaching as you balance research, service, work-life balance, and more!
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 12:30 PM – 02:00 PM
and Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 12:30 PM – 02:00 PM
and Tuesday, April 07, 2020, 12:30 PM – 02:00 PM
and Tuesday, May 05, 2020, 12:30 PM – 02:00 PM
(list dates)
Location:
CEI 2263
Instructors:
Anne Forrest,
Edwin Tam
Are you an early career faculty member? You are invited to a new opportunity to join small group mentoring with experienced faculty, dedicated to supporting you in your teaching as you balance research, and service expectations. Two mentors with different experience and background will meet with a group of 4-6 early career faculty, to enable multiple small mentoring groups. The groups will meet for one academic year, and will work together to shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to thriving at the University of Windsor in teaching as you balance research, service, work-life balance, and more!
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
and Thursday, December 10, 2020, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
and Thursday, January 21, 2021, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
and Thursday, February 18, 2021, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
and Thursday, March 18, 2021, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
and Thursday, April 15, 2021, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
(list dates)
Location:
Taught Online
Instructors:
Erica Stevens Abbitt,
David Andrews
Are you an early career faculty member? You are invited to a new opportunity to join small group mentoring with experienced faculty, dedicated to supporting you in your teaching as you balance research, and service expectations. Two mentors with different experience and background will meet with a group of 4-6 early career faculty, to enable multiple small mentoring groups. The groups will meet for one academic year, and will work together to shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to thriving at the University of Windsor in teaching as you balance research, service, work-life balance, and more!
Friday, November 13, 2020
Early Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule: