How is the department organized? How are decisions made? Are there interpersonal or departmental dynamics that would be helpful to know about?...

This presentation covers the topics: Building the case for mentoring, What is mentoring and what are mentoring models, Personal Experience, and Making peer-mentoring work for you.

The ADVANCE Program at Brown is offering Peer Mentoring Groups for faculty in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) starting in Fall Semester, 2008. One of the comments that we have consistently heard from faculty at Brown is that you would like to have more opportunities to talk with each other to discuss challenges, successes, issues, etc.

Covered in this document are three steps to have an effective meeting: introductions, establishing guidelines, and decide what to do at the next meeting.