Please find additional information on the characteristics, skills, and behaviors of successful mentors. (PDF)
Supplementary Reading
- Christopher J. Lucas, John W. Murry Jr. New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners. Second ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2007. (To borrow a copy of this book, please contact us.)
- Nature’s guide for mentors, Nature, 2007
- Top Ten Things New Faculty Would Like to Hear, Dean Sorcinelli, U. Mass
- Career Development for Women in Academic Medicine: Multiple Interventions in a Department of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1996
- For additional reading on mentoring (not available on this site), we suggest: Faculty Success Through Mentoring: A guide for mentors, mentees, and leaders, by Carole J. Bland, Anne L. Taylor, S. Lynn Shollen, Anne Marie Weber-Main, and Patricia A Mulcahy
Materials on this site draw heavily from information found in the websites of the University of Wisconsin, the University of California system, University of Michigan, Washington State University, the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University, the book Faculty Success Through Mentoring, and the work of Dr. Harold Pincus.