The Partnering for Advancement Mentoring Program assists women in attaining their professional goals. Each fall, all newly hired women get invited to participate in the program. Mentees are paired with mentors across campus, but never in the same department.

The program offers a training session for mentees and mentors, a handbook of guidelines and suggestions and a monthly opportunities for connecting with mentors and valuable interactions on life as a new faculty member, preparing for tenure and promotion, grant writing, and balancing work and life issues.

Goals of the Partnering for Faculty Advancement Mentoring Program:

• To facilitate viable models for mentoring that will lead to academic achievement, advancement and institutional success
• To equip mentoring partners with the skills and resources necessary to create fruitful mentoring relationships
• To facilitate a better campus climate for all faculty, staff and students
• To increase the participation and retention of women in all disciplines
• To facilitate the attainment of individual career goals
• To increase job satisfaction
• To help women prioritize and balance the demands of an academic career
• To help women balance the myriad aspects of their professional and personal lives
• To prepare women faculty for leadership positions on campus and in their professions
• To create an institutional structure on campus where mentoring is natural, spontaneous and ongoing

To sign up as a mentee, please click on the application below and mail to Memorial Hall E123 or submit via email to owa@indiana.edu.