U-M Central Mentoring Resources

CIC Academic Leadership Program (ALP)

The CIC* Academic Leadership Program serves to develop the leadership and managerial skills of faculty on CIC campuses who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise. The program is specifically oriented to the challenges of academic administration at major research universities and is designed to help faculty members prepare to meet these challenges. Among the strengths of the program are the networking that occurs at the meetings and the informal mentoring among colleagues. Admission to the program is by nomination from the dean of the faculty member's school or college, with the final selection made by the Provost.

* The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is the academic consortium of the Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago.

Contact:
Glenda Haskell
Assistant Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs
haskell@umich.edu

ADVANCE Grant

The University has received a five-year $3.7 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve opportunities for tenure-track women faculty in science and engineering fields. The grant was awarded as part of the NSF’s ADVANCE Program, established to increase participation of women in the science and engineering work force through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.

The first phase of the Michigan program will be a campus climate initiative that will create or identify activities such as workshops, consultation and focus groups, and make them available to any interested department or school/college throughout the University. The second phase will provide new types of direct support to individual scientists. Finally, a departmental transformation initiative will develop a sequenced program to be awarded to a small number of departments on a competitive basis. NSF funding will begin January 2002, and activities associated with this five-year program will be announced over the next year. It is anticipated that faculty mentoring will be one of the priorities departments and schools/colleges will be encouraged to pursue when looking at ways to provide better support to women scientists and engineers.

Contact:
Abigail Stewart
Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
abbystew@umich.edu

 

MENTORING PROGRAMS