Spotlight:
Building an Effective Mentoring Network

A Workshop and Lunch with Mary Deane Sorcinelli (Associate Provost for Faculty Development at University of Massachusetts, Founder of the UMass Center for Teaching, and WSC Alumna) Thursday, May 14, 12:15 to 2:00 p.m.

Friday, May 8, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

(Dear Colleagues--Thanks to all of you who have already RSVP’d to attend this Thursday’s workshop with Mary Deane Sorcinelli on mentoring. A graduate of WSC’s English department, Mary Deane Sorcinelli is Associate Provost for Faculty Development at UMass ( http://www.umass.edu/ofd/index.html), where she has pioneered an innovative faculty development program, including the “mutual mentoring” program. We will serve lunch at the workshop. If you haven’t let me know that you’re attending, please do so. We have room for at least another 10 people. Thanks—Emily Todd (Faculty Center Coordinator))

Career success and well-being depend in part on the network of relationships in which we participate. This workshop is designed for faculty and academic leaders interested in strengthening faculty networks (including their own!) and promoting mentoring relationships for faculty. We will explore the theory and practice of faculty mentoring and networking, highlighting an innovative new model of mentoring as well as strategies and programs that work to strengthen professional networks and mentoring.