During the 2008-2009 academic year, the FMP will expand its services to include all tenure-track assistant professors in the Marquette community. Therefore, in addition to those in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Communications, and Education, faculty in Dentistry, Engineering, Health Sciences, Law, and Nursing can now request a mentor or volunteer to mentor, as well as benefit from the various informational sessions sponsored by the program each semester. Welcome.
Our purpose: Helping faculty succeed
The Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP) is designed to facilitate the professional development of tenure-track assistant professors. It extends Marquette's principle of cura personalis or “care for the whole person” to these junior faculty. The FMP's core project matches individual assistant professors with a senior faculty member for a confidential, interpersonally supportive relationship that is separate from performance evaluation.
Helpful on-campus links
- Planning a Family Leave at Marquette
- Human Resources
- View HR Family Leave policy
- General Leaves of Absence
- Center for Teaching and Learning
- Ombuds
- Provost
- Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
- Academic calendars
Helpful books and articles for mentors and mentees
- Janice Hocker Rushing. 2006. Erotic Mentoring: Women’s Transformations in the University. Left Coast Press. (The author intertwines Greek mythology with interview narratives from female academics who were largely mentored by males in the academy.)
- Christopher J. Lucas and John W. Murry, Jr. 2002. New Faculty: A practical guide for academic Beginners. Palgrave. (As the title suggests, this is a very practical, but dense, guide for all aspects of academic life.)
- Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy. 2008. The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure — Without Losing Your Soul. (Although this book targets African Americans, the advice given would be useful to all faculty of color.)
- “Balancing tenure and family—Do academic parents need a break?”
Monitor on Psychology (APA) ( Feb. 2007)
- “Mothers on the Fast Track — How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers,” by Mary Ann Mason and Eve Mason Eckman
- “Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Women,”
by Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, Academe (Nov.-Dec. 2002)
- “Do Babies Matter? Part II: Closing the Baby Gap,” by Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, Academe (Nov.-Dec. 2004)
Helpful Web sites
- Black Academic (This website is run by the authors The Black Academic’s Guide to Winning Tenure—Without Losing Your Soul).
- The Chronicle of Higher Education site has useful articles about the academy,
career advice, etc.
Please feel free to suggest other resources to be linked on this site using our contact form or via e-mail.
MENTORS/MENTEES PROGRAM LINKS
"What I like about the program is that it indicates seriousness on the part of Marquette about ensuring that junior faculty get as much advice and input from others as possible in the most direct and most confidential manner."
~Assistant Professor, Humanities
The Center for Teaching and Learning
