Report of the Faculty Mentoring Study
The Provost's Advisory Committee on Mentoring and Community Building

(Downloadable PDF file of entire report with recommendations and appendices.)

The recommendations and report available below are a culmination of the work of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Faculty Mentoring and Community Building, which was formed in January 2001. The committee was charged with the task of identifying strategies to improve support for faculty, improving awareness and understanding of mentoring, surveying faculty and administrators regarding their experiences with and their needs for mentoring, and identifying ways that central administration can encourage and facilitate mentoring and community building in the individual units.

During the 2003-04 academic year, the Committee conducted a survey of assistant professors and a survey of academic administrators. In addition, several follow-up focus groups provided more detailed information about mentoring. The report (PDF) provides a summary and details of the study.

Questions and comments should be directed to Assistant Provost Glenda Haskell (haskell@umich.edu or 734-936-3546).

• Recommendations to the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
  
  
• Report of the Faculty Mentoring Study
  
  
• Appendix A: Ideas for Faculty Mentoring
  
  
• Appendix B: Five Approaches to Faculty Mentoring