ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses preparing a proposal for university-wide mentoring a program and describes the director’s work in creating and maintaining a program. Although the benefits of a university-wide mentoring program are easy to recognize, the case for support for the program must be made with all stakeholders in mind. This will include the provost or president, the deans, the chief financial officer, department heads, and senior faculty. A good place to start recruiting mentors is by writing invitations to professors who have won teaching and research awards. The invitations can indicate that interested people can choose between one-on-one mentoring and group facilitation. Recruiting mentees must be done in spring and involves determining which departments are currently conducting searches for new faculty. New faculty members often participate in the program in their second year on campus, and they find the arrangement to be very satisfactory. Training mentors and group facilitators new to the program can be accomplished in a half-day workshop.
