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What is a faculty mentor?

Mentoring offers new skills

Through mentoring, faculty members share experiences, expertise, and advice on research, teaching, and other professional concerns with students and less-experienced colleagues. Mentors serve as guides for students to their institution and its culture, as well as act as research advisors, teaching resources, and role models for success in research and academia. Assess and reflect on your mentoring skills here.

Mentoring plans

Plans are tools for success

Mentoring a less-experienced researcher is a professional responsibility of all scientists. The ultimate goal of the mentor is to establish the trainee as an independent researcher in their field. The best way to ensure this outcome is to lay the groundwork for success early through a detailed mentorship plan. We've included a template below of such a plan to get you started.

Mentoring isn't easy but it's needed

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has created the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) to help develop, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based curricula to train research mentors and mentees in establishing effective mentoring relationships. Learn more about NRMN below and take the Mentor Competency Assessment

Be a good peer reviewer

Take this FREE course

This course is for researchers who are new to peer review or just want a refresher. Within this course, you will learn the responsibilities of a peer reviewer, learn how to prepare a peer review report, and discuss ethics in peer review.

Useful Readings

Facilitating Humanities Undergraduate Research

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Build Your Online Research Presence
Here you will find quick-start guides for building your online presence and increasing your research impact using three of the most common platforms out there: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and LinkedIn. Creating (and updating!) these platforms can help you to:
- Boost your readership and citations
- Help track your scientific impacts/contributions for evaluators
- Build connections with potential collaborators from around the world!
For additional ideas for platforms to share your research on, check out the 30-day Research Impact e-book!
Quick-Start Guide
Getting Started as a PI

Ten Simple Rules
Creating an Inclusive Research Lab

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Take the Mentor Pledge

By taking the #MentorFirst Pledge, you are making a commitment to prioritize the professional development, career goals, and general well-being of the members of your research lab as they develop as scientists and pursue their personal and professional goals.

Take the Pledge Here

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